Real Madrid news: Club break record BEFORE Cristiano Ronaldo sale

Los Blancos enjoyed a highly successful 2017/18 campaign, winning their third successive Champions League.

They were dealt a blow in the summer, however, when Cristiano Ronaldo left the Spanish capital to join Juventus for £105million.

The Portuguese was a talismanic presence on the pitch, ending the last eight seasons as the club’s top scorer.

He was also a huge commercial draw, but Real have received good news on that front post-Ronaldo.

The club’s 2017/18 revenue was €750.9m (£671m), an 11 per cent improvement on the previous year.

The figures don’t take into account money garnered from transfers.

Despite that fact, it is a €76m (£68m) increase on the season before and the largest rise for the club in a financial year since 2000, when Florentino Perez first became president.

The club also confirmed they have no debt, running on profit for the third consecutive year.

In 2017/18, Real not only won the Champions League, but also the FIFA Club World Cup and European and Spanish Super Cups.

Madrid said those successes helped produce “increased revenues, but also greater expenses, particularly in terms of bonuses to sports personnel.”

Forecasts suggest a revenue of €752m (£675m) for 2018/19, as the club enter a different era.

New boss Julen Lopetegui has recovered from his European Super Cup loss to Atletico Madrid to win his first three league games in charge.