Real Madrid turn on Tebas, want him replaced: “He doesn't own LaLiga” | OneFootball

Real Madrid has had enough. The club has issued a scathing statement against Javier Tebas following the latest remarks by the president of LaLiga, whom it accuses of using his institutional position to repeatedly attack the Madrid-based club.

The response is not limited to rejecting specific statements. Real Madrid openly questions Tebas’s neutrality, criticizes his conduct over time, and raises the urgent need for a change at the head of Spanish professional football.

“Our club considers it intolerable for the president of LaLiga to use his institutional position to continue discrediting and attacking Real Madrid,” the club states. An especially serious accusation, since it comes from the competition’s leading club against the person who should represent and protect the interests of all its members equally.

Madrid demands the neutrality Tebas does not offer

The club points out that LaLiga’s top official should be working to build trust in the bodies responsible for guaranteeing the competition’s impartiality. However, his public behavior produces precisely the opposite effect.

Every attack by Tebas increases suspicions about his ability to act with the neutrality required of someone who manages the economic, audiovisual, and sporting interests of all clubs. It is not a matter of asking him to be sympathetic toward Real Madrid, but of showing the minimum institutional respect his position demands.

The president of LaLiga cannot behave like just another pundit or turn the club into the permanent target of his interventions. Even less so when he represents a competition whose prestige depends on all its participants trusting the independence of the person in charge.

“The president of LaLiga is not the owner”

The statement concludes with a phrase that strikes directly at Javier Tebas’s management model: “The president of LaLiga is not the owner of the competition.” He is a manager chosen to serve the clubs, not an authority placed above them or the owner of a structure that belongs to its members.

That is why Real Madrid believes that Spanish professional football “urgently” needs a leader capable of running the competition with honesty, neutrality, and institutional sense. In other words, the club is openly calling for an alternative to Tebas.

Madrid’s position is entirely understandable. No club should have to tolerate the person obliged to represent it repeatedly using his office to discredit it. And when that conduct stops being an isolated episode and becomes a habit, an institutional response is not only justified: it is essential.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.