Real Madrid has hit back at LaLiga president Javier Tebas following his recent comments against Jose Mourinho and the club over their complaints about the refereeing in Sunday's Madrid derby.
After the recent statements by LaLiga president Javier Tebas toward Jose Mourinho for his comments against the refereeing of Ortiz Arias in the Madrid derby at the Metropolitano, where the Portuguese referred to him as a "poor official," as well as against the person in charge of VAR, Daniel Trujillo, whom he pointed out for having a "rich history" against Madrid. Congratulating the Refereeing Committee on that "strange" appointment. Real Madrid responded as follows.
"In light of the statements made by the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas Medrano, Real Madrid C. F. wishes to state the following: Our club considers it intolerable that the president of LaLiga uses his institutional position to continue disparaging and attacking Real Madrid in the way he does in each of his interventions.
And it is very concerning that the person who has the responsibility of representing and protecting the interests of all LaLiga clubs continues to be repeatedly obsessed with Real Madrid, turning our club into a permanent object of his public attacks."
Let's remember that Tebas recently published on his official X account some words in response to everything that was being stirred up with Mourinho's statements after his team's defeat at the Metropolitano, harshly criticizing and questioning the quality of Ortiz Arias. "When it is not Negreira, it is the referee; when not, that he is not international. All clubs can be refereed by international officials and by those who are not. No one has the right to a made-to-order refereeing."
Real Madrid needs to focus on improving on the football side and stop getting into these off-field situations. Whether the red cards were given or not, it already happened; those in charge of refereeing are the ones who will later have to decide if they were good decisions by the official or not — the CTA already admitted that Lee Kang-in should have been sent off —, but it is unacceptable that during the 90 minutes of the match they only managed 3 shots on goal.
Unfortunately, Mourinho will not have his stars during the next two weeks due to the international break. But with El Clasico around the corner, it is of utmost importance to form a solid scheme both in attack and defense, because Atletico exposed the offensive shortcomings we had been talking about for weeks. They completely erased Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr. — who were already transparent to begin with.
"In view of this inappropriate and sustained behavior over time, we understand that the professional football competition in Spain urgently needs a leader capable of administering it and developing its full potential with the elementary duty of neutrality.
It needs someone who understands the nature of his position, because the president of LaLiga is not the owner of the competition, but a manager at the service of the clubs that make it up and that entrust him with its direction. The clubs need someone who serves this mission with honesty," the statement concludes.
