‘It was SURREAL’ 😳 REACTION to Real Madrid President Florentino Perez’s press conference | ESPN FC

0:00 Julian Lauron is joining us as well.

0:02 And we are going to get to the game today between Osuna and Athlete.

0:05 But we do have to start with what's been a big day in the Spanish

0:09 capital with Real Madrid and club

0:12 president Florentino Perez holding a press conference.

0:15 Now this doesn't happen often Jules.

0:17 What was the reason for today's and what was said there?

0:22 You're right K that doesn't happen often.

0:24 So, I think a lot of us thought, well,

0:25 because the season has been so difficult because the crisis is there,

0:29 they've changed managers, the results haven't been that great.

0:32 You know, he's going to come and and try to appease everything and just

0:36 try to explain what went on and and what the future holds next season,

0:40 maybe something to do around the Valve situation, all of that.

0:44 And instead, for most of it, it was the Florentino Perez show.

0:47 I mean, I've never seen anything like this before.

0:49 I won't lie.

0:50 He made it all about himself.

0:52 started talking about people who were

0:54 attacking him everywhere who are spreading lies

0:57 about him like he's got cancer and illness and that he's not well.

1:01 Then he said he's not going to resign but yeah he's calling

1:03 elections and for the elections he has to resign anyway before being reelected.

1:07 If that is like like if um you know it was a popularity contest around

1:12 Florentino Perez which is really the last thing

1:14 that this club and team needs right now.

1:17 It's not nothing to do with Florentino Perez.

1:19 It's all about what's happening on the pitch and what

1:21 the club is going to do about it for next season,

1:24 but no, with Florentino, it was all about him.

1:26 He did mention a bit the True Armenian Valv issue,

1:30 but really all of it was about him and himself

1:32 and what people are doing to him and the lies

1:34 being spread all around in the media and how

1:37 he canled his ABC newspaper subscription for it was surreal.

1:42 I really think it was surreal.

1:44 Yes, absolutely.

1:44 Now you did mention that he did also talk

1:46 about that training ground bust up between Chumen and Vda.

1:50 So let's hear what he had to say about that situation.

2:03 forchech.

2:40 The leak is worse than anything, says Florentino Perez LA.

2:44 Well, it's a contradiction then for Florentino Perez and Real Madrid.

2:48 Because if this was such a teeny tiny thing that it happens all the time.

2:52 Look, it happens every year.

2:54 It happens between two players.

2:56 It happens between four players.

2:57 It's is a normal thing.

2:59 Then why are you finding this players have a million euros each?

3:03 If it was such a normal thing,

3:05 then why are we having such a big fine, such a precedent setting sort of fine?

3:12 It tells you that it was a much bigger deal.

3:14 For me, the league itself is not the problem.

3:17 For me, it's the inconsistency of Real Madrid, how they dealt with it,

3:21 how they put out certain information that paints one picture and then Fed Alvare

3:26 puts out his own information that is

3:28 completely different from what Real Madrid is saying.

3:30 Where is the PR department?

3:31 Where is the club?

3:33 Where is the club president actually is taking

3:35 a stance and saying the things that needs

3:37 to be said about these things are unacceptable

3:39 in a club of the magnitude of Real Madrid.

3:41 They're unacceptable anywhere, but especially in particular at Real Madrid.

3:46 Instead of taking that position,

3:47 he's more concerned about uh who's the one telling our dirty laundry out there?

3:53 Who who's the one?

3:54 Who's the mole?

3:55 Who's the mole?

3:55 Is it you?

3:56 Is it you?

3:56 Is it you?

3:57 The mole is not the problem.

3:59 the issues are within Real Madrid and those are

4:01 the issues that need to be addressed.

4:03 Yeah, Jules, to Al's point, it was different stories from all camps,

4:06 from both of the players, from Real Madrid and now Florentino Perez himself.

4:12 Yeah, absolutely.

4:12 I thought what he said today just added

4:14 to the chaos and added to the to the whole issue.

4:17 Um, leaks, every top club, especially Real Madrid,

4:21 we've always known what was happening in that dressing room.

4:23 Always Florentino Perez himself and his people

4:26 around him leak stuff all the time.

4:28 If you read Mara and us every day, there's stuff coming from the club a lot.

4:32 They're just feeding them stuff all the time.

4:35 So, I'm I'm not even sure like where this came

4:37 from because this is what this club is about really.

4:40 And there's nothing that happens at Real Madrid that we

4:43 don't really know that at some point doesn't come out,

4:45 you know, on our website, on our show in Spain, everywhere.

4:48 Everybody's breaking stories about Real Madrid because

4:51 because it's the biggest club in the world.

4:53 So, a lot of people talk about it.

4:54 A lot of people talk about what happens inside the dressing room.

4:57 a lot of people happens what says what what

4:59 happens in the in the offices all the time.

5:02 So for him to come out and I agree

5:04 with Ali the point here is not about the leagues

5:06 or it's not about Florentino it's about the fact

5:09 that those two key players in the team have had

5:12 a fight like that and that's unacceptable and instead

5:14 of him coming out and said I condemn what happened

5:18 this this should have never happened that's where we find

5:20 them and going on about that instead he's talking about leaks.

5:23 Yeah, and another topic what was raised from Florentino

5:26 Perez in this very press conference and it was

5:28 about the booing of the players which we've heard

5:30 more and more frequently from the Bernabo this season.

5:33 That's something else that was addressed in this presser.

5:51 You have to support your children, LA.

6:06 Yeah.

6:07 Well, yes, but sometimes you also have to discipline your children.

6:11 Sometimes you also have to be rough and tough

6:14 with your children because you got to keep your children in line.

6:18 And I, okay, I'm not a proponent of your home fans

6:22 booing the players because I I just don't think it's productive.

6:25 I don't think you're gonna get the best

6:26 out of your players when you're booing them.

6:28 And when there's already pressure on them,

6:30 you're mounting that pressure even higher, higher, and higher.

6:33 And that uniform, that Real Madrid uniform gets tighter, tighter, and tighter.

6:38 So, I don't think the booing helps.

6:39 The problem here is that it's coming on the back end

6:42 of a press conference in which he was rambling for a lot of it.

6:45 in which he was let me look at this notes and then that note over

6:48 here and he over over here and then where where's this and then I go forwards

6:53 and backwards and let me let me tell you can I tell you about can

6:56 I tell you about the titles that we got in the from the basketball team can

6:59 I tell you about those I'm not making this up this was him saying that he

7:02 was including soccer titles basketball titles he

7:05 was telling you according to this publication we're

7:07 the biggest club according to this publication we're

7:10 the most expensive club according to this and then

7:12 he's looking at his phone and saying

7:14 they just sent me this notice earlier today.

7:15 So, he's reading articles from the media so that he

7:19 can then point it out and say how there's this attack,

7:23 subversive attack against him.

7:27 This was I'm I'm watching it and I'm looking at it.

7:30 I'm like, is anybody going to get him off the off the mic and tell him,

7:35 "All right, everybody, good night.

7:37 Take care.

7:37 Have a good afternoon." Because the more he talked, the deeper the hole got.

7:41 Start playing the Oscars music.

7:43 Yeah.

7:43 Yes.

7:43 Please.

7:44 Somebody had to play some music.

7:46 I tell you what, Jules, Thursday,

7:47 Real Madrid are back at home at the Bernabo to take on Ovido.

7:51 You can only imagine what the atmosphere is going to be like.

7:56 Yeah, absolutely.

7:57 And and for me, his line on the fans

7:59 just confirmed the disaster class that this press

8:02 conference was really because he is the leader

8:05 and leader have to take responsibilities at some point.

8:08 And for this season,

8:10 he would have come out today and said, "I understand the fans.

8:12 I know they're not happy.

8:13 We understand the fans as a club, the squad, the technical staff.

8:18 We understand why they booing.

8:20 We don't like the booing, but we can understand because we've been below part.

8:24 We've been this.

8:24 Instead, he's having a go at them.

8:27 He's having a go at them.

8:28 And I understand it's not great for players to be booed.

8:30 But sometimes if you're not playing well,

8:32 if the results are not there, fans can show their frustration.

8:35 They're paying for the tickets.

8:36 They're paying for the season ticket through the season.

8:39 Again, I didn't understand at all what you said about the fans.

8:42 Yeah.