La Liga chief fires shots at Real Madrid president – ‘Doesn’t understand half of this issue’ | OneFootball

Earlier this week, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez launched an attack on FC Barcelona over the Negreira case, calling it “the most serious case in football today“.

Not stopping there, the Los Blancos chief also hit out at La Liga and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for their passive stance when it came to questioning Barcelona president Joan Laporta during his court testimony recently.

Tebas hits back

In response, La Liga president Javier Tebas has hit back at Perez in an interview on the Misión 2050 podcast (h/t SPORT).

“The president of Madrid doesn’t understand half of this issue. He said that because Laporta was questioned and La Liga asked one question during its turn,” Tebas started.

“But of course, those of us who are criminal lawyers know that first the judge asks questions, then the public prosecutor, then the first party to appear, then the next, and then the next. We were the third to appear, the prosecutor asked 19 questions.

“He already asked quite a few questions. Then an arbitrator asked two and we asked one,” he explained.

Firing shots at Real Madrid, Tebas then accused that they had changed their stance on the matter only because Barcelona had left the Super League project.

“There were no more questions left and the last to ask questions was Real Madrid’s lawyer. By the way, why was he the last to ask questions? Because they were the last to appear, which took them two months,” the La Liga chief said.

“Because at that time, Barcelona were allied with the Super League and Madrid had doubts about appearing. Now that Barça have left the Super League, they are acting like they’re paladins.

“But on top of that, the twelve questions they asked had already been answered by Luis Enrique and Valverde in the previous questions. It’s all theatre, a fallacy,” he further stated.

But Tebas did not stop there, as he pointed out that it was La Liga that took the matter of the Negreira scandal to the court and that it was him who he claimed it was a case of sporting corruption, before saying that Real Madrid were crying false victimhood.

“It was us who took the case to the Prosecutor’s Office, not Real Madrid. And I was the first to say that there was corruption in sport, but not in the way Real Madrid is claiming, playing the victim now that they didn’t get the penalty on Sunday for Negreira,” he said.

Continuing, Tebas added: “Florentino Perez’s strategy, and I’m a dormant Real Madrid fan, is that he doesn’t want La Liga to work, because for his Super League projects he wants a weak league. If there is a weak league, then his projects will make sense.

“He wants to go back to what we were 12 years ago. You’ve seen his concept of football: let the big clubs do what we want and we’ll give the rest of you what we want. That goes against the very essence of football, not the match in Miami.”