Real Madrid president Florentino Perez spoke about the accusations leveled against him for causing Lionel Messi to leave Barcelona.

Messi was scheduled to stay in Barcelona after agreeing to reduce his salary by 50%, but an exciting development occurred last Thursday, which resulted in the Argentine striker moving to Paris Saint-Germain in a free deal on Tuesday.

The Catalan club's president, Joan Laporta, blamed La Liga rules on financial fair play.

However, Jawmbi Ubis - a former board member of the "Esbay Barcelona" project to renovate the Camp Nou - resigned from his position in the wake of Messi's departure before accusing Laporta of bowing to Perez's wishes.

"Messi's departure is a step that helps Florentino; imagine that (Kylian) Mbappe now joined Real Madrid. Laporta was convinced of the opinion of the new CEO Ferran Riverter not to sign the CVC deal (an investment of 2.7 billion euros in La Liga) as well as preserving the European Super League project with Perez.”

"Is it a coincidence that Riverter is an old friend of Perez and that they were able to convince Laporta to change his mind and stop negotiations with Messi?"

Perez insisted, in a statement issued by Real Madrid, that he had met Riverter only twice before, one of them 4 months ago and the other last Saturday at a dinner in the presence of Laporta and Andrea Agnelli, president of Juventus.

"The statement and the decision regarding Messi was made and taken at this time, so it is impossible for me to have any influence on Messi's departure, or indeed any other decision taken by Barcelona. I hope that


Ubis

corrects

his false comments as soon as possible," Perez said.

Real Madrid and Barcelona opposed the proposed €2.7 billion La Liga deal because it gave CVC a 10% share of the league's profits, and Real Madrid decided to take legal action against the proposed offer.

The two clubs, along with Juventus, adhere to the idea of ​​the European Super League, which collapsed earlier this year when 9 clubs from 12 institutions withdrew after a strong reaction from the fans and some media.