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Pérez Uses Real Madrid AGM to Attack Barcelona, Tebas and UEFA, Vows Damages and Breakaway Rights

The Real Madrid president turned the club's annual meeting into an escalation of legal, financial, governance disputes across Spanish and European football.

Overview

  • At the annual general meeting on November 23, Florentino Pérez delivered a 78‑minute speech dominated by grievances against rival institutions.
  • He tied FC Barcelona to alleged payments to former refereeing vice‑president José María Enríquez Negreira and implied manipulation, with prosecutors still investigating.
  • He pledged to seek several billion euros in damages from UEFA and to pursue the right for clubs to organize an alternative Unify League competition, with litigation ongoing.
  • He called for LaLiga president Javier Tebas to be removed, condemning league governance, the handling of fan and player protests, and the failed plan to take a Barça match to the United States.
  • He decried Spanish officiating, citing red‑card totals he says favor Barcelona and arguing referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea should have been suspended.