Florentino Pérez EMERGENCY PRESSER DRAMA | Real Madrid Latest News and Reaction

0:01 Real Madrid's trophyless season has left the fabled club in full meltdown mode.

0:07 From teammates fighting to reports of unrest and supporters calling

0:11 for the selling of stars and resignation of longtime president Florentino Perez.

0:16 The mess led Florentino Perez to hold

0:18 an unprecedented press conference where he ripped critics,

0:21 defended his track record, and dared challengers to step forward to run

0:24 against him for the role of Real Madrid president.

0:27 Here's a look at some of the comments that Pere Perez

0:30 made at the start of the press conference going on to say,

0:32 "An absurd situation has been created that goes against

0:36 the interests of Real Madrid and against me personally.

0:39 You cannot win all the time.

0:40 It has happened before, but people are taking advantage of the situation

0:44 to attack me." He then went on to also say,

0:47 "Where's Florentino?" They ask.

0:48 I do not usually speak publicly.

0:50 They say I am ill that I have terminal cancer, but I want to make it clear

0:54 that I'm still running a major company, Andrean Madrid.

0:57 if my health is perfect.

0:58 Otherwise, it would be impossible to lead

1:00 two instit institutions of this magnitude.

1:04 We are live on YouTube right now.

1:06 So, leave your comments and questions in the comments section.

1:10 But right now, let's bring in our CBS sports

1:11 LA correspondent Giam Balagay into the into the conversation.

1:15 Cla Bagan here alongside Troyini and Nigel.

1:17 We are Coker as we bring you all

1:19 of this breaking news as everything is happening.

1:21 But Giam, please explain to me what we

1:24 have just been watching for nearly the past hour.

1:30 Let me just uh start where it is at the moment because it's still going on.

1:34 Um he started doing the Donald Trump thing

1:36 of pointing out who he wanted to hear from.

1:38 I said, "Let's talk to him.

1:40 Let's get the question from him.

1:41 He's got a nice face, a face of a good person." And also,

1:46 he added, "I'm having a ball.

1:48 I'm really enjoying myself." Now this is Florentino Perth as you normally get it

1:52 in private when you go for a coffee with him when there is a meal.

1:56 Uh he will just uh be full

1:59 of attack against anybody that criticizes Real Madrid.

2:02 He will be full of defending of what he's done at the club and he will give

2:06 you names of those that hate Real Madrid

2:08 and those that trying to change the ownership model.

2:11 All of that is what he will tell you privately.

2:14 Publicly is very calm but today it's a completely different story.

2:19 So what he wanted to say from the beginning is number one I'm

2:22 not resigning number two there will be elections and number three and this went

2:27 on for a while he started attacking journalists and certain media to say

2:32 they don't want the best of uh Real Madrid and they actually have started

2:36 creating this idea that I'm ill behind this there are interest hidden interests

2:41 of people that want to take charge of Real Madrid via the journalists

2:46 and he had this argument with one of the journal journalist who the journalist

2:50 didn't have a microphone still shouted and Fantino shouted back and that was it.

2:56 He was asked about co the coaches and players that may come or go.

3:01 I'm not here for that.

3:02 He said but he did mention one thing

3:04 related to the fight between Valver and Charminy.

3:07 says that's bad.

3:08 But you know what's worse?

3:09 The leaks that people actually have told the world what has happened

3:13 and before every single year there is a fight but these things

3:17 come out because there is hidden interests against me and Real Madrid

3:21 and it was just going on and on and on about justice.

3:26 Yeah, just to shorten this sorry just

3:28 to shorten this whole situation we're witnessing right now.

3:31 Is this a Real Madrid president under pressure and trying

3:34 to justify himself of why he is still president

3:37 of the club and encouraging anyone to challenge him

3:40 because he still believes he can take this club forward?

3:43 Bear in mind, this has been two seasons with no trophy

3:47 for a Real Madrid side that prides himself on winning and winning mentality.

3:52 I will tell you differently, he's not under pressure.

3:54 There's going to be elections.

3:55 she probably will be the only candidate and he will remain for as long

3:58 as he wants because she's made the condition so hard to be

4:01 a president of Real Madrid that is going to sort it but this is

4:06 a person with a lot of power and I'm sure we all think

4:09 of others that we know close to us a lot of power who's

4:13 been challenged for different reasons perhaps

4:16 there are hidden agendas others will use

4:18 the u the results of the team to criticize the fact that actually he's

4:23 not building and he's only two or three people taking decisions of Real Madrid,

4:26 a greater squad compared to the other ones

4:28 in the past is somebody in power who's been

4:31 challenged and he's got a powerful uh place

4:37 platform to actually tell the world you're all wrong.

4:40 I'm telling I'm telling you what you're all wrong.

4:42 So he announces a press conference and he doesn't do that generally.

4:45 He did it in 2006 to say that he

4:48 was leaving Real Madrid and came back two years later.

4:51 He does uh talk to the media in Christmas when he

4:54 actually invites all the media for a few drinks and whatever.

4:57 There's a lot of off the record where you hear him

4:59 talking like this like we just done today in a press conference.

5:02 But it's not normal that he calls the whole world.

5:04 Look, we're talking about it.

5:07 Spend an hour on something just listening

5:09 to him ramble about this this idea that he's

5:13 being challenged and how can they challenge what

5:15 I've done what I've done for Real Madrid.

5:17 That's deep down what's happening.

5:19 GM I it's it's a crazy hour that we've just

5:22 listened to and I know you're much more experienced in this.

5:25 I just wanted to there's two parts of this right in terms

5:28 of where he's talking about people making up stories about his health.

5:31 I think he has every right to come out on the front

5:34 foot and be offensive and say no they're all rumors.

5:37 I'm putting that to bed.

5:38 Totally understand that.

5:40 But the other part to it which he's alluded

5:42 and it just kind of dismissed is what's the project?

5:46 What's the way that this football is actually going to happen?

5:48 Because Barcelona have got a project and they're

5:51 doing it and they're continuing to get better.

5:53 Yes, he's talking about the the amount of money

5:55 spent on the squad and how much it's worth, but actually what is the project?

5:59 Why should anyone believe what he's saying from a football point of view?

6:05 Project is for Dino Periff, whatever he decides.

6:08 By the way, they won the Champions League six times in the last 12.

6:12 Yeah.

6:13 So, it's a successful project.

6:14 They got a new stadium, amazing stadium in the middle of the town.

6:18 They didn't have to sell it.

6:20 They got a training ground that they could sell for a lot of money,

6:23 but it actually is one of the modern training grounds.

6:25 And that may be a possibility to raise more money.

6:28 They he's trying to fight with basically

6:31 PSG and Manchester City is as their enemies

6:34 because they they bring money in a way

6:36 that they don't think just doping in football.

6:39 That's what he calls it.

6:40 There's all of that.

6:41 But the project is not too bad.

6:44 It's just going a little bit wrong in the last two years.

6:46 And Joseph Marin is going to come in and he may or may not get it right.

6:51 But his his attack is not towards the journalist.

6:55 And he mentioned some of them,

6:57 not towards the newspapers, uh not towards the media groups.

7:01 Deep down he feels there are people perhaps powerful.

7:04 Maybe that's how powerful people talk to other powerful people.

7:08 powerful people that he feels that want to take over at Real Madrid.

7:11 Not that easy and he knows that.

7:14 But it's a good opportunity to actually say I am

7:16 Real Madrid and those of you that believe what I say,

7:20 which is most of the people at Real Madrid.

7:23 I'm saying these are the enemies.

7:25 This is what we're fighting against.

7:27 Oh, by the way, he mentioned Negraia, the Negra case again.

7:30 and he says he's going to present to UFA a report of 200 pages with a lot

7:35 of details in what he says is the biggest corruption in the history of the game.

7:39 So looking for enemies reinforcing your own uh

7:43 your own world and uh and yeah putting out there

7:47 that there is people really really bad people he called

7:50 them that want the worst for Real Madrid than him.

7:53 Gem we know it's still early and trying to respond and digest everything

7:56 we just had to listen to and and what the president is saying.

8:00 How is it going to be seen in Spain?

8:01 How is this really going to come across in Spain in La Liga

8:04 with what people are just witnessing now with the president of Real Madrid?

8:08 The the problem Nigel is that uh people are in trenches.

8:12 So because you get messages from Florentino

8:15 Perth on your phone when you need them,

8:16 there will be the proarentino group and because

8:21 perhaps others have been led by hidden forces.

8:25 they will be against Florentino and you don't really know who to trust anymore.

8:29 So, you're going to have to look for independent

8:31 voices that don't owe anything to the president

8:33 of Real Madrid and can talk openly to to hear what the real reaction will be.

8:39 But generally, I think I I was looking

8:42 at the press conference uh through a YouTube uh channel

8:46 that has got famous people in it and and they

8:48 were like they could not believe what they were hearing.

8:52 It's like this is a bit strange.

8:55 Florentino 79 and he's very very fit.

8:57 Uh he had a personal tragedy when his wife uh passed away

9:02 and that really affected him but he's

9:04 come out fighting right now against anybody

9:07 that that wants to be on the other side and he's asking

9:10 those that want to fight to show their faces because he wants to kill them.

9:14 He wants to randicate them.

9:16 He wants real world to be Florentino fed land

9:20 and nothing else and this is part of it.

9:23 So when he was asked about the elections what how is it going to work

9:26 and he goes I don't know maybe in 15 days we're just going to announce it.

9:31 So there was not even a preparation that it would take for a a shareholding

9:36 meeting of ACS the big company with uh 100,000 people that he he runs.

9:41 Um, so he was he was just an angry man that wanted to come

9:46 out at a time when everybody's having a goal and say, "Here we are.

9:50 We're still standing tall." Bizarre.

9:52 Bizarre.

9:53 Very bizarre.

9:54 Yeah.

9:54 Gam it seems like a lot of this is

9:56 just for Pis to to come out and defend himself.

9:58 And based off the comments that we're getting right now on YouTube,

10:01 it says it seems like the people who

10:02 weren't convinced about Florentino Perez staying are even

10:05 less convinced about him staying after everything

10:07 that they've heard from him from the last hour.

10:09 But if you are a head coach, a manager who's in the running right now to take

10:14 that position at Rean Madrid and you see this press conference,

10:17 what's going through your head?

10:18 Because of course, like especially a guy like Jose Mourinho,

10:21 he's being linked to this job right now.

10:22 What is he thinking?

10:25 If you're a manager that wants methodology and order and the authority

10:29 of the manager to be respected, you run a mile.

10:32 If you are Joseph Mourinho, he's going to bring more fire to the fire.

10:35 Oh my god.

10:36 Whoa.

10:37 This is the beginning of the Jose Marino era.

10:39 It's like all right,

10:40 I've got a president that wants to fight with me because what Jose Marin is

10:43 going to do is what he always does

10:45 everywhere else which is us against the world.

10:48 And sometimes you think like Israel Madi the most

10:51 powerful club in the world or one of them.

10:53 What you're saying that everybody's against you?

10:55 It doesn't make sense.

10:56 But it does.

10:57 If you got Fantino

10:59 and you go to San Marino telling you that and they're going to repeat it.

11:03 The referees are against us.

11:04 The authorities are against us and they're trying to get

11:06 an advantage by by presenting this idea to the world.

11:11 Just on that, GM, two two guys trying to create war.

11:16 How long before they start going at each other?

11:21 They understand each other very well.

11:22 It wasn't a conflict between them that made Jose Marino go.

11:27 It's just that Jose Marinho ran out

11:28 of of of matches to to put more fires everywhere.

11:33 There was that was that's it.

11:34 I mean everybody went against Mourinho and Ramad that year.

11:38 The crisis was inside the changing room.

11:40 Not so much with with Florentina.

11:41 Florentina felt okay time to move on and we'll get something else.

11:44 So no, no, they're just going to feed each other.

11:49 One thing I want to ask the two

11:50 of you is one thing Florentino Lopez was saying was,

11:53 okay, we're seeing this news about players fighting in the locker room.

11:55 He's like, this has happened basically every

11:57 single year that I've been here, 26 years.

11:59 Is that something normal?

12:00 I because the two of you have obviously been years and years in a locker room.

12:04 Again, fights the terminology of fighting is needs to be understood.

12:10 Yeah, there's fisty cuffs, there's pushing and shoving.

12:12 There's maybe every now and again eight someone gets

12:14 hit and then 20 people jumping and it stops.

12:17 Yes, fights happen in a dress.

12:18 They happen all the time.

12:20 But the terminology of a fight isn't

12:22 a threeminute fight of two people going at each

12:24 other and locked in a in a in a dressing room and the winner comes out.

12:27 It's it's scuffles because everyone's trying to push to try

12:31 to be at the best level that they can be.

12:33 So when they talk about fights,

12:35 I just want to clarify that it's more of a 10-second thing,

12:39 15-second thing at best.

12:40 I understand what you're saying, it's different for different clubs,

12:42 but there are some clubs where it can be very physical.

12:44 But the thing is what we grew up in, it stays in the dressing room.

12:47 I think right now with Real Madrid and the bad season that they've had,

12:51 no trophy, losing La Liga, all this tension is building up in the dressing room.

12:56 It has to come out to add more fuel to the fire,

12:58 which is probably why we're seeing

12:59 the president defend himself now because of everything

13:01 that's continued to roll on like a a snowball effect throughout the entirety.

13:06 You talk about the Mbappe situation where people are now

13:09 starting to question whether Mbappe was needed at Real Madrid.

13:12 Is he the problem?

13:13 Is he not with his uh someone with nearly 60 goals can't be the problem?

13:17 Well, the question that's that's the crazy thing to ask Gim that

13:21 isn't that something that's being focused on also GM in the sense of the Mbappe

13:25 situation and how the season has gone on since he's been at the club.

13:30 Yeah, but Florentino Perez, the one who takes the situ in this case he is right.

13:37 It's quite clear that Emma has not understood what Real Madrid did

13:41 is about and has not understood how a winning team gets created.

13:46 He's got to work harder.

13:48 Well, he's going to get somebody that's will

13:50 feel that's bigger than him will make smaller will

13:53 put him in his place if you like and will tell him you have to do better.

13:58 Whatever way he tells him,

13:59 it'll be interesting to see how Mbappe reacts because again this is not

14:02 the kind of superstar that Mourinho may have dealt with 10 years ago.

14:06 And this is somebody that has not won the league for 11 years in Mourinho.

14:10 So let's see how he creates uh the culture that is required but especially how

14:15 how he puts Embra in his place but he's going to come with so much authority

14:19 and with a president that's on fire and fighting that it's going

14:23 to be their way is Jose Marin Florentino in charge of this club now

14:28 really quickly game you just said Mbappe has struggled to um

14:32 understand what Real Madrid is what is that for people because

14:36 again he would argue I've got all of the goals I've

14:38 got all the statistics What more do you want from me?

14:40 So, what is that thing that he's missing?

14:45 It happened with Cristiano Ronaldo a little bit at the end.

14:48 They feel they're bigger than Real Madrid.

14:50 They may be right.

14:52 I'm not judging that.

14:53 But when you go to Real Madrid, you have to put your head down.

14:56 You have to do what is required to be admired and loved by the fans.

15:00 And that tends to be a lot of work.

15:03 And if you score, even better.

15:05 But there's been players of quality that have not given everything.

15:09 No, that's not what they want.

15:11 So there's an adjustment to be made there.

15:14 Gam immediately some of the first words

15:16 that Florentino Perez said is I'm I'm not leaving.

15:18 I'm not stepping down.

15:20 And also asking that if anyone wants

15:22 to challenge him to challenge him specifically what

15:24 he said was those who want to come out and stand against me, they can.

15:27 I'm also going to stand to defend the rights of our members.

15:30 If somebody does want to stand, let them stand, but don't move in the shadows.

15:34 I've asked the electoral board to begin

15:36 the process of calling elections in which

15:38 the current board will stand again and he

15:41 has run unopposed in the five straight elections.

15:44 So GM one question that we do have someone from the chat

15:47 live right now is realistically who

15:49 can challenge Florentino Perez in the elections.

16:00 Nobody.

15:59 Is that worrying?

16:03 Is it a winning club?

16:05 Has Has he built a a big stadium?

16:07 Has it been called the best president in history?

16:10 Is he probably the best president in history?

16:12 Is he challenging without the need of states to put uh money into Real Madrid?

16:18 Yes.

16:19 Yes.

16:20 So, he's doing very well.

16:22 That's why when you you are in that position of power

16:26 and in that pedestal and everybody knows and recognizes what you're doing,

16:30 what is he doing going to the mud and fighting with little ass?

16:34 It just doesn't make any sense.