Madrid has a very comfortable start of the season with Osasuna and Mallorca at home and LaLiga's weakest team away. Coincidence or some help because they had such a short pre-season? Who knows, but it doesn't say anything about the season. We didn't have the hardest start as well, but Mallorca away and Rayo away next Sunday is definitely one of the harder games in the league.
October, November when the players start to get tired playing every third day, traveling across Europe for the international games and NT, when the motivation of starting the season disappears and the difficult away games appear, that's when it'll count. Let's see the form and table then. I don't say we will be in front of them, but it will tell us more about their new signings, than rating them based on this easy start.