Real Madrid DEMAND removal of La Liga President after 'Nazi' comments

2 min read
Javier Tebas and Florentino Perez
© IMAGO
Make us your Google favourite

Real Madrid have demanded that La Liga President Javier Tebas be removed from his position after he compared their official media channel to Nazi propaganda.

Article continues under the video

Following a dismissal against Villarreal last weekend, Vinicius Junior was given a four-match ban by La Liga which means he'll miss the Clasico against Barcelona.

Real Madrid TV and Real Madrid-leaning outlet El Debate savaged La Liga for the decision to ban the Brazilian for four games but Tebas likened their output to that of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

"Real Madrid's management directs an orchestra of mouthpieces and Real Madrid TV leads the singing," he posted on X.

"Their score is always the same: select the plays that suit them, repeat the grievance, feed the suspicion, and point fingers at the enemies.

"That method recalls propaganda mechanisms exploited by Goebbels, Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda: systematic repetition, construction of an enemy, and subordination of facts to the narrative. The comparison is with those propaganda techniques, not with an ideology or, of course, with the Madridista fanbase."

Real Madrid are outraged by that comparison and, not for the first time, they have expressed a desire to see Tebas removed as La Liga President.

"Real Madrid C. F. considers it absolutely intolerable and extraordinarily serious that someone holding two positions of utmost responsibility in Spanish football resorts to a comparison with the propaganda methods of the Nazi regime to discredit our club, its management, and its television," the club said in a lengthy statement.

"The clarification that he is not referring to Nazi ideology does not mitigate the deeply offensive, morally repugnant, and institutionally unworthy nature of his statements."

"These statements constitute yet another episode in the repeated attacks by Javier Tebas against Real Madrid, its president, and its media outlets. It is unacceptable that he even takes advantage of questions, information, or opinions from journalists unrelated to the club to direct his accusations at us, attributing to us actions of third parties for which we bear no responsibility."

The club added:

"Real Madrid C. F. considers that the repeated statements and behaviours of Javier Tebas would be unacceptable in any European sports institution governed by principles of respect, neutrality, and integrity, and that they disqualify him institutionally from continuing to hold the positions he occupies."

Tebas and Real Madrid have been at war for a long time as Los Blancos believe not enough progress has been made in the Negreira case investigation in which Barcelona are accused of sending payments to a referee chief.

Read more about: La Liga Real Madrid