🚨⚪️ Guti on Enrique Riquelme’s campaign for Real Madrid president:
🗣️ “It won’t be a surprise if Enrique arrives and the first thing he does is get rid of José Mourinho, bring in someone like Mikel Arteta, then start reshaping the squad around Spanish players.
It’s all I’ve heard throughout his campaign.”
🗣️ “Every interview, every speech, it’s always about Spanish players, Spanish identity, Spain national team… and I think that’s a very dangerous way to look at Real Madrid.”
🗣️ “Madrid has never been successful because it only had Spanish players. Madrid became Madrid because it brought together the best players in the world, no matter where they came from.”
🗣️ “We can’t start building an entire XI just so more Madrid players can represent Spain national football team at international tournaments. That benefits Spain, not necessarily Real Madrid.”
🗣️ “For me, this election is simpler than people are making it. One man is making promises, the other has spent more than twenty years proving he can keep the club at the top, I know who I would trust.”
🗣️ “People are acting like the sky is falling, but I’ve seen Florentino Pérez rebuild great Madrid teams before. I’m sure he’ll do it again.”
There are multiple layers of insanity in what Tebas is saying.
1. He admits match-fixing happened between 2008–2013. Note he is not talking about the Negreira case here, which is a systemic corruption case, but about the case related to Osasuna in 2010s.
2. He represents La Liga as the president, yet openly admits that proper sanctions were not applied.
3. Then he bizarrely blames Florentino Perez, as if Real Madrid had the responsibility to police Spanish football.
4. This is the same deflection tactic he uses in the Barca-Negreira case, blaming Perez for “not acting,” instead of explaining why La Liga and the Federation failed to sanction and still continues to take zero meaningful actions.
5. It is La Liga’s and the RFEF’s job to investigate and sanction corruption and match-fixing, not Real Madrid’s or any other club’s.
6. Most importantly, he is downplaying a systemic, long-term corruption case (Barca–Negreira) by comparing it to individual match-fixing cases, which are far smaller in scale and impact.
A league president talking like this tells you how rotten Spanish football is.
No wonder the England national team has been such a failure in recent decades.
how can you even have this kind of discussion about literally the best English midfielder ever, and he’s only 22?
🗣️ Wayne Rooney: “I’ve heard debates about if Bellingham should be in the England World Cup squad… he HAS to be in. There’s NO DOUBT.
When you need something, he’s the one that could go & do that.
You need match winners, people who’ll have special moments… and he’ll certainly provide that for you.” @BBCSport