Will Lopetegui now be able to focus 100 percent on taking Spain to their second World Cup title, when he also should be helping his new club prepare for the coming season after what is shaping up to be a busy summer in the transfer market?

Real Madrid like to present themselves as a 'gentleman' club; a club of honor, which represents the best of Spain: this action will be seen by many Spaniards as betrayal of the country's interests for those of a club.

Alfredo Relano, the editor of Spanish sports paper, Diario AS, was quick to react, publishing a comment piece in which he said Real Madrid were a "factory for producing people who hate Real Madrid," and the move is certainly not going to help the club's image, either at home or abroad.

Surely it would not have been so disastrous for the club to have waited until the end of the World Cup or until Spain were knocked out, before announcing the appointment, doing so now smacks of ego and self-interest over the national good.

And there is a major risk involved in what Madrid have done: If Spain win the World Cup, Lopetegui will arrive as a hero, but if they underperform and fail to get past the quarter-finals, he will be a disappointment and that will mean the knives are out for him from day one.

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