Who will take Real Madrid's freekicks now? Real Madrid Bale? Asensio? Isco? Modric? Kroos?

Cristiano Ronaldo's exit from Real Madrid leaves Los Blancos looking for a new freekick taker, with the Portuguese forward having been the man to step up for the majority of the fouls blown around the opposition box since his 2009 arrival.

Now that he has joined Juventus, the search begins for his freekick heir.

Luckily for Julen Lopetegui, there are a number of players in the dressing room capable of scoring from freekicks.

Since the 2008/09 season, 21 different players have taken at least one direct freekick, with a total of 444 of the 619 shots taken by Ronaldo, while Gareth Bale, next in this ranking, took 55.

Freekick attemps per player during the Ronaldo era

Cristiano Ronaldo, 444 attempts Gareth Bale, 55 attempts Mesut Ozil, 18 attempts James Rodriguez and Xabi Alonso, 16 attempts Sergio Ramos, 14 attempts Esteban Granero, 11 attempts Marco Asensio and Angel Di Maria, 8 attempts Guti, 7 attempts Isco, 6 attempts Kaka, 3 attempts Rafael Van der Vaart, Nuri Sahin, Toni Kroos and Casemiro, 2 attempts Nacho, Luka Modric, Royston Drenthe, Ezequiel Garay and Karim Benzema, 1 attempt

Ronaldo, therefore, took 72 percent of the freekicks at Real Madrid and this translated into 33 goals, which was a success rate of 7.4 percent.

While no others can come close to these quantities, there were a few players who took and scored a direct freekick during Ronaldo's time at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, with Bale scoring four, Mesut Ozil and James Rodriguez netting three and with one scored by Xabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos, Marco Asensio, Isco, Kaka and Nacho.

Of the current squad, Isco, Kroos, Asensio, Bale and Ramos are, therefore, the main candidates to inherit freekick duty.