The continued saga between Actual Madrid and the Spanish refereeing system has taken one other dramatic flip, with La Liga President Javier Tebas firing again on the membership’s latest criticisms.
Actual Madrid had relating to refereeing selections of their match in opposition to Espanyol, which culminated in movies and statements from membership members expressing their discontent with the officiating.
What Tebas mentioned about Actual Madrid
Tebas took to social media to reply on to Actual Madrid’s grievances, highlighting what he perceives as a stark inconsistency of their stance on refereeing reform.
In a pointed tweet, Tebas reminded followers of a La Liga assembly in April 2023 the place a proposed overhaul of the refereeing system was on the desk. He criticized Actual Madrid for opposing this reform.
“I’m not in any respect stunned by Actual Madrid’s letter, because it doesn’t say something totally different from what their tv has been repeating for a while.
“Many people defend a radical change within the refereeing system, transferring nearer to the English or German mannequin, with a very totally different organisation and far more transparency in all of the structural selections of Spanish refereeing.”
No me ha sorprendido en absoluto la carta del Actual Madrid, ya que no cube nada diferente de lo que su televisión lleva tiempo repitiendo.Muchos defendemos un cambio radical en el sistema arbitral, acercándonos al modelo inglés o al alemán, con una organización completamente…
“What is really putting is that, at a LaLiga assembly on 19 April 2023, we debated and even voted on this variation, and Actual Madrid opposed it,” he mentioned.
Tebas went on so as to add extra gasoline to the fireplace by implying sure corruption instances in opposition to Actual Madrid and president Florentino Perez.
“Might it have one thing to do with the truth that, at the moment, the president of the RFEF was Rubiales and Florentino Perez was a member of the RFEF Board of Administrators? And thoughts you, the ‘Negreira’ case was already in court docket, and Actual Madrid took weeks to look. Why?” he mentioned.
“By the best way, relating to ‘corrupt techniques’, there are few classes they can provide. And I’m not referring to Actual Madrid as an establishment,” he added.
These statements by Perez is bound to widen the rift between Actual Madrid and the footballing establishments, which have been at loggerheads for fairly a while now.