Real Madrid are pathetic without Ronaldo. I guess it is the football Gods playing their part, you cant have everything nice in life forever. You must experience sadness at some point. The same as Man Utd after Ferguson retires misery.
You're correct about this and Man utd still cannot recover their performance since Ferguson retire even for years and buy expensive players but Man Utd still cannot reach top performance again and same situations too for Madrid that i think they will feel difficulties to find Ronaldo replacement but one think for sure that Madrid will always be blaming the manager if they fail to get trophy and i don't think Solari position will be safe especially if Madrid lost again then possibly he would be got sacked too