Marcelo has become indispensable to Real Madrid under Rafa Benitez

The ESPN FC panel discuss the current standings in La Liga and the recent form of Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid. Marcelo started and played 90 minutes in all but one of Real Madrid's matches this season. A quick glance at players that Real Madrid have brought in for €6 million or thereabouts over the last decade is hardly a who's who of greats. Excluding loan deals or buy-back options, Alvaro Arbeloa (Liverpool, €4), Sergio Canales (Racing Santander, €6m) and Diego Lopez (Sevilla, €3.5m) are the only players to have arrived at the Bernabeu for anything in the region of what Real paid Fluminense for Marcelo in January 2007. Arbeloa and Lopez were shaped in La Fabrica but forced...

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