💥 Real Madrid question Tebas's future: he's not LaLiga's owner | OneFootball

Real Madrid has responded with an official statement to the latest remarks by Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga. The club describes it as "intolerable" that Tebas uses his position to "discredit and attack" the institution repeatedly.

The controversy stems from a comment by Tebas about Madrid’s complaints over the refereeing in the Madrid derby. "When it’s not Negreira, it’s the referee; when not that, then it’s that he isn’t an international referee. All clubs can be officiated by international referees and by those who are not. No one has the right to tailor-made refereeing," Tebas said.

Real Madrid brands the league president’s intervention as "especially serious and incomprehensible" and "utterly absurd and irresponsible" on the part of an executive.

The statement places the episode within a broader pattern: the obsession, according to the club, of the LaLiga president against Real Madrid. "It is quite surprising that the president of LaLiga devotes his time and his personal channels to always trying to publicly discredit Real Madrid," Madrid adds.

Madrid calls for Tebas to go

Real Madrid does not specify its next steps, but it makes one demand clear: it is calling "urgently" for a leader to run the competition "with the basic duty of neutrality." The club recalls that the president of LaLiga "is not the owner of the competition," but an administrator serving the clubs.

The tension between Real Madrid and Tebas goes back a long way and this statement adds a new chapter. It remains to be seen whether the president of LaLiga will respond publicly to the accusations from the Madrid club.

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