Real Madrid President Perez Criticizes Barcelona Amid Club Election and Coaching Rumors
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Perez adds to dramatic week at Real Madrid Perez's accusations against Barcelona were just one part of a strange event, with the Real Madrid president using his time at the pulpit to criticize members of the media for what he argued was unfair coverage. He also took the time to respond to his critics as Los Blancos approach the end of their second consecutive trophyless season.
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Sky SportsReal Madrid president Florentino Pérez confronted journalists in a rare news conference on Tuesday; Sky Sports News' Kaveh Solhekol analyses the extraordinary move from Perez
Yahoo SportsEarlier today, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez held a press conference, during which he made some bizarre statements.
BBC SportPublished Real Madrid president Florentino Perez staged a tense press conference in which he argued with journalists and called for elections following a trophyless season.
The Guardian SportAnd the referees of course, the unresolved (and genuinely important) Negreira case declared not to be a thing of the past, the club preparing a dossier to send to Uefa. Pérez had been robbed of seven leagues, he calculated. As for the real enemy, to blame for all that is bad: are they in the room with us right now? Yes, Pérez said. Maybe that was why there was a press conference, the worst of all called in to be shot at.
NDTV SportsReal Madrid President Florentino Perez Calls Club Elections, Will Stand Again This season has seen Real Madrid finish without a major trophy for a second year running.
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He said that a digital sports paper called Relevo had been set up with only one aim – to attack Madrid – and had gone out of business, €25m in debt, a moral to that story. He announced that he had always subscribed to ABC but that he was giving up his subscription – if not before he peered at the screen and read out a line piece in which they had said he was “tired” and took on Ruben Canizares, the ABC reporter in the room who didn’t write that piece but who he accused of “going for Madrid every day”. Who also responded with a dignity the president didn’t have.
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Yahoo Sports"Relevo—you knew what it was, right? It set out to make a digital newspaper that lost 25 million in its lifetime and whose only goal was to go after Real Madrid and its president. And I’m sorry, because my father read ABC and subscribed me many years ago, but now I have made the decision that I am going to cancel my ABC subscription to honor my father, who will thank me for it,
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If Perez is re-elected he will likely be working alongside Jose Mourinho as head coach, with the current Benfica manager set to return to the club he led between 2010 and 2013.
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Sky SportsMourinho is highly likely to be named as Real's new boss - 13 years after he left his first stint at the club.
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Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 2-0 in the Clasico at Camp Nou on Sunday to claim back-to-back La Liga titles with three games to spare.
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BBC SportHis announcement comes after Barcelona defeated Real Madrid in the Clasico at Camp Nou on Sunday to claim back-to-back La Liga titles with three games to spare.
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"I'm standing for re-election to return the club's assets to its members. "If anyone wants to run, they shouldn't just pretend -- let them run, but let them say what they're going to do, how they're going to finance everything."
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01 The Guardian Sport That day, in 2018, he had looked sad; this time it was at turns almost funny yet really not funny at all, accusatory and threatening, demanding that the enemies conspiring against him come out of the shadows and stand so that he can defeat them, like something straight out of the falling emperor’s handbook. Enemies everywhere, paranoia too. “They’re going to have to shoot me, because I have the support of all Madrid’s members,” Pérez said. “I’m going to finish the bad people.”
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02 CBS Sports "I regret to inform you that I will not be resigning, but rather I have asked the board to initiate the electoral process for the board of directors elections, in which the current board will be running." he said. "They are taking advantage of the fact that we haven't had the best results, but it's something we accept because in sports, you don't always win. This has happened to us many times before, but they use these situations to attack me personally. They say, 'Where's Florentino?' I don't usually speak out.
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03 Sky Sports The Real Madrid president clearly believes attack is the best form of defence as he blamed the media and referees for all his club's problems this season.
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04 BBC Sport "I'm here to say I'm not going anywhere and I'm here to stand for election," the 79-year-old told the gathered press.
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05 Yahoo Sports Current Real coach Alvaro Arbeloa, who replaced Xabi Alonso in January, is unlikely to remain at the helm next season and former Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has been linked with a potential return.
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06 ESPN Inside Real Madrid's downward spiral into infighti... In another season with no major trophy, Real Madrid have had to deal with players fighting and problems at team and boardroom level. How did it come to this?
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