Spain discovered, last week thanks to audios leaked by the online newspaper El Confidencial, remarks made by Florentino Pérez, knocking out quite a number of big names passed by the White House.
"The sentences reproduced are spoken in conversations secretly recorded by José Antonio Abellan, who has been trying to sell them for many years without success," reacted the president of Real.
In the Madrid press, there was not much coverage of these revelations.
We cannot say it enough: read books. And, above all, remember what is written, it can be useful. Nine years after the publication of
Asalto al Real Madrid
, by journalist José Antonio Abellán, Spain discovered, last week thanks to audios leaked by the online newspaper El Confidencial, comments made by Florentino Pérez, the president of the Real Madrid, which were already mentioned in the book and the majority of which dates back to 2006. Nothing revolutionary, therefore, for who would have read it. But hearing the soft voice of "FloPé" knocking down a lot of big names from the White House, remains an absolute pleasure.
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" An illness.
You think this guy is normal, but he's not.
»Raul?
“This man is bad, he is destroying the team little by little.
He thinks Real Madrid belong to him.
"Casillas?
“He makes me laugh, I have a little sympathy for him.
In height, he is very small and mentally he is a child.
Guti, Michel, Mourinho, Del Bosque, Butragueño also take it for their rank.
We looked everywhere, nothing on Julien Faubert, however.
Florentino Pérez sobre # CR7: "Está loco, este tío es un imbecil" 😰
También is refirió a #Mourinho
Audios publicados por @elconfidencial pic.twitter.com/n2DcuU1XAS
- HAT TRICK TV (@HAT_TRICK_TV) July 14, 2021
Have you heard any tapes?
Pérez reacted quickly. After the publication of the recordings, a statement from the president on the club's website was issued: “The sentences reproduced are spoken in conversations secretly recorded by José Antonio Abellan, who has been trying to sell them for many years without success. I think if these recordings are coming out now, after so many years, it is because I am one of the promoters of the Super League. "And we would put our hand to cut (the left, eh, no joke) that the president of Real seized the Twitter codes of Real to take revenge, and say all the bad things he thought about Abellan, who 'he accuses extortion.
El Transistor de Onda Cero revealed that Abellán tuvo in 2011 una reunión con el vicepresidente del RM, Eduardo Fernández de Blas, en el restaurante Combarro, en la que le chantajeó pidiendo 10 millones de € para hacer desaparecer los audios grabados de manera ilícita y manipulada .
- Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) July 15, 2021
So what repercussions these audios could have for the president of Real Madrid?
Armed with our best level of Spanish LV2, with our contacts on the other side of the Pyrenees, we thought that the tongues would be released to speak of Pérez.
Well, no, nay.
As in front of a discotheque at 17, we were turned away.
"I do not prefer to bring up this subject because I do not agree at all with the methods used and the publication [of these recordings]", replied the editor of a major Spanish media.
Same refrain from another colleague while the majority of people contacted do not respond to SMS, emails, calls or carrier pigeons.
Pressures
In the Madrid press, there was not much coverage of these revelations, either. Even
El Chiringuito
, the absolute star television program of
tertulias
(debates on a set), has not said a word about it. The reason ? “We are not talking about private matters. When it suits them, of course. Because, as David Valdearenas, pro-Barça journalist on his social networks, points out: “When you have to disclose the details of Messi's contract, they are the first to do so. "
So why this silence?
“You can't speak badly of the one you work for.
Pedrerol [
Chiringuito
host
], if you talk badly about Florentino, you'll be homeless, ”says Valdearenas.
An idea to explore.
Because, in the audios broadcast by El Confidencial, we discover the weight that the cacique Pérez has in the Spanish media landscape: pressures to put his favorite at the head of
Marca
, requests to isolate journalists from Prisma Media (
As
) or to end on a program on public television, Pérez wants to control everything.
Suddenly, one comes to wonder if the journalists do not have a little the roupettes when it is necessary to evoke the case of Pérez.
Without consequences?
"For me, this is not a taboo subject, finally answers us the journalist of Radio Marca Pablo Parras.
For others, it can be.
It is a difficult situation because these are remarks in the off.
But everyone who knows Florentino knows he expresses himself like that.
It's almost human to criticize people you care about in certain situations.
"
"In the end, even if Florentino does not explain, there will not be too many consequences," said Jorge Valdano, the former player and sports director of Real Madrid in the radio program
El Transistor
.
In ten days, everything that happened will be erased with the news.
"
If Mbappé arrives ...
Same story with Pablo Parras:
We are not at all in a crisis situation.
The crisis would be if Real won nothing at the end of the season, if they were in the same economic situation as Barça.
This affair made more noise among the
anti-Madridistas
than the
Madridistas
.
The reaction of Real supporters was to support Pérez.
There is nothing to worry about.
"
"It would be very risky economically for him to leave now," confirms Pablo, Real supporter since his childhood.
Let him finish the stadium first [the work of the Santiago Bernabeu is due to finish in less than a year] and then we'll see.
Life goes on and if he brings Mbappé back, everything will be forgiven him.
»Kylian, you know what you have to do if you want to plunge Real into crisis.
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