Florentino Pérez slams Barça, UEFA and LaLiga at the Assembly

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·23 de noviembre de 2025

Florentino Pérez slams Barça, UEFA and LaLiga at the Assembly

Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, used his speech at the Assembly of Representative Members to launch a direct and unambiguous attack against UEFA and LaLiga. With an energetic tone, the Madrid chief reiterated that the club is forced to react to practices it considers "not normal" and even illegal.

The first jab was aimed at UEFA, criticizing the attempt to prevent clubs from organizing their own tournaments and the design of competition formats that "harm the fans". He also pointed out the pressure to play matches in Asia, near China, because the organization’s executives "are beholden to their voters."

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It is not normal for UEFA to try to direct our destiny and play competition formats that harm the fans. But keep in mind that their executives are beholden to their voters. That is why we are forced to play matches in Asia, near China.

The bulk of the criticism focused on the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas. Pérez called the comparison between the match in Miami and the NFL event "absurd", asserting that the attempt to impose matches outside Spain does not have the support of all the clubs. He specifically mentioned that the access to extra financial injections for playing in Miami by Barcelona and Villarreal is an anomalous practice.

Another major point of controversy was Spanish refereeing. Pérez called it a "disgrace" that FIFA did not select Spanish field referees for the recent Club World Cup. The Madrid president did not hesitate to bring up the Negreira case, describing as "not normal" the fact that Barcelona paid the vice president of referees more than 8 million euros during a period that coincides with their best results.

It is not normal for Barcelona to have paid the vice president of referees more than 8 million euros over at least 17 years. Whatever the reason. To the vice president of referees, who had important functions. A period that coincides, coincidentally, with Barcelona’s best results in our country.

Finally, Florentino Pérez positioned himself as the leader of a necessary "battle", assuring that Real Madrid is "possibly, the only club in Europe with the necessary strength" to face these problems. He denounced the lack of transparency in LaLiga’s media budget, citing the case of Relevo, and criticized the CVC fund, which "mortgages the future of our clubs for 50 years."

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

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