Florentino Pérez hit back hard Tuesday, saying efforts to oust him from Real Madrid stem from a coordinated push. Though quiet for weeks, he chose now to speak, calling it less about dissent than a structured attempt to weaken his position.
Power struggles rarely play out loud, yet this one spilled into view through sharp words and timing. Behind closed doors, alliances shift; publicly, he frames resistance as something engineered, not earned. Not every challenge comes from poor results - some grow from whispers turned strategy.
Out of nowhere, the 79-year-old president showed clear irritation at a rushed press event held at the team's practice facility. This moment arrived only forty-eight hours following Madrid’s loss, two goals to none, against FC Barcelona - sealing Barca’s title win in Spain’s top league again this year. Though often steady under pressure, he looked strained this time around.
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Fresh club elections will happen, Perez said, while daring his critics to step up alongside challengers to face both him and the existing board.
“I made this decision because of this absurd situation of campaigns against me,” Pérez said. “The results haven’t been the greatest, but that has happened before. They are taking advantage of it to attack me.”
A former leader of the team claimed some news outlets helped fuel attacks on his reputation.
“Some journalists and people want to destroy Real Madrid,” he said. “I will always defend the interests of the Madrid members.”
Perez spoke to reporters soon after the board gathered, though he steered clear of diving into the team's underwhelming performance. Even with big names like Kylian Mbappé lighting up the pitch, Madrid will close another year empty-handed, second in a row without lifting silverware.
Still silent on the manager talk, he passed when asked about possible changes. Word is Mourinho might come back next year.
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Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni had words during practice, it seems. That clash led to half-million-euro fines for both, sources say. The Madrid chief addressed the incident directly afterwards. Though details remain sparse, money changed hands as a consequence. One week has passed since the dust-up occurred.
“It’s not the first time players have fought with each other,” Perez said. “It happens almost every season. But someone leaked it for the first time, and we know who it was. It should have stayed within the club.”
The fault behind the leak stayed hidden, and Pérez kept names out of it.
Funny how some stories stick around, even when they’re made up - he laughed off claims about being sick or stepping down. Critics pushing those tales were just tossing lies into the air, hoping something would land.
“They said I have cancer and that it was terminal,” Pérez said. “It was the most undignified thing that has ever happened to me. They said I couldn’t walk or even go out.”
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