Please forgive the terrible pun, but it’s early here and it’s the only thing I could think of.

Anyway you would have to be living in a hole in the ground to not have noticed that Real Madrid have signed both Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo at a combined fee of around £140million ($190million).

There’s an article on the official Real website that states, with masterful understatement, that president Florentino Perez “thinks big”.

Too big. In my opinion. The idea is that the increase in shirt and merchandise sales will effectively recoup the transfer fees, but as you would need to sell literally millions of extra shirts to people who aren’t even Real fans, that just isn’t going to happen.

Perez is mortgaging the future of his club in the hope of getting a quick fix of success, but there’s no guarantee that even with Kaka and Ronaldo in place, this will happen.

Barcelona aren’t going to step quietly aside and allow Real to win La Liga. Similarly, just by having those two players in the squad, doesn’t automatically mean Champions League success.

This is all going to go pear shaped very quickly.

You can of course delay the inevitable by buying the latest Real Madrid shirt here, but it is inevitable. The financial implications of these transfers mean that Real is a time bomb waiting to go off.