Abraham P. Romero
Updated Sunday, March 24, 2024-02:14
"
Madrid ,
at
war with
UEFA
for the Super League
." "
Madrid, at war with the
Technical Committee of Referees
and the
Federation
." "
Madrid, at war with
LaLiga
over audiovisual rights
." "
Madrid, at war with
Barcelona
over the
Negreira Case
." The headlines of recent months have linked two words quite constantly: "Madrid" and "war." And the white team is in the trenches against the vast majority of Spanish and continental football groups. «
Football is suffering an unprecedented crisis
. "Either we react or it will not survive," declared
Florentino Pérez
at the end of 2023. And the institutional reaction of the white team has been more than forceful. At the Bernabéu they have decided not to hold out any longer.
Why is that. "
A reaction. Action-reaction before each attack
». This is how they defend it in the sports city of
Valdebebas
when all the fronts open to the club are analyzed. A reaction to the "monopoly", already denounced by Madrid and taken to the
Court of Justice of the European Union
, of UEFA by not allowing the creation of a new continental competition such as the
Super League
.
That has been the most popular. But there is more. Like the last one, the great controversy of this national team break: a reaction "to the negligent writing of the referee's report" by
Martínez Munuera
after
Osasuna-Real Madrid
. The Madrid entity reported that the referee "voluntarily and deliberately omitted the insults and humiliating shouts repeatedly directed towards Vinicius" at El Sadar.
Madrid's complaint against the referee provoked a reaction from the CTA itself, which issued a statement criticizing the "
unfair accusations
" of the white team. One more controversy within the constant tension between the club and the committee, especially as a result of the Real Madrid Television videos, a breeding ground for the referees' anger and a tool for Madrid to show their opinion on the referees and their actions. . "
The videos are a permanent complaint
," they define in the upper echelons of the white team. In Madrid,
the CTA is considered a "corrupt
" establishment that "needs a total change in its structure."
unexpected allies
And in wars, as always, there are unexpected allies. This latest tug of war between Madrid and the CTA has found LaLiga on the side of the referees.
Javier Tebas
's entity
, which in recent years has been against the Federation, has put itself in the same trench to respond harshly to the white team's accusation through its Delegate Commission: "It is one more manifestation of the "inclement campaign undertaken by Madrid against the Spanish referees, with the presumed intention of putting pressure on said establishment, in order to obtain
a competitive advantage
with the decisions that said group has to make."
A paragraph, and an accusation, that has attracted attention in Valdebebas, where they assume it as another example of the war that exists between the club and the organization chaired by Tebas. A relationship that has not existed for years and that has had as its last turning point the reaction, yet another, of Madrid to the entity's agreement with the
CVC fund
for audiovisual rights. "
An expropriation
," they denounce in the white team.
A situation that has reached the courts and has caused Madrid to reject the entry of the television operators' cameras into the locker rooms. «Clubs can exploit pre-match, post-match... Everything that is not explicitly the match. The law says it. "But
LaLiga insists on expropriating that right
," the Madrid president accused Javier Tebas's entity.
And we continue with the reactions, in this case to the Negreira Case, the reason for the start of the "war" against Barcelona.
Madrid presented itself as a private accusation
in the case and Joan Laporta, who until then maintained (and now has again) a good relationship with the white board, formulated that of "
sociological Madridismo
." Florentino did not attend several Clásicos and despite the union of the two teams in the
Super League
project , Madrid is on the other side of the judicial trench around Negreira, assuming its status as "
injured
" sportingly due to the years in which that the Barça team paid the vice president of the referees.
A trench in which the whites have LaLiga at their side, in another of those unexpected alliances. The entity also appeared as a private prosecutor and
Tebas accused Madrid of not doing "anything more"
based on his appearance in the case. Because allies can also hate each other. It is visible. Although they are united, they say, by the same colors.
Finally, the
elections for the presidency of the Spanish Football Federation
appear on the horizon , another turning point in the Spanish football soap opera. The reader can imagine that some managers would like one president and others another, but nothing will be clear, not even the candidates and their supporters, until the investigations into what happened during
Luis Rubiales
' term are completed . Another war will begin there, don't doubt it.
Meanwhile, Madrid will settle for the CTA, LaLiga, UEFA, Barça... And with winning the domestic title on the pitch and fighting in the Champions League against Manchester City. In the end, everything is football.