The La Liga and Real Madrid conflict escalates into open confrontation. Tebas hits back hard at Pérez

Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez delivered a fierce critique of La Liga chief Javier Tebas during Sunday’s Delegates Assembly. Among the grievances was the controversial idea of staging a match in Miami, which would have seen Barcelona face Villarreal.

During the meeting, one delegate even proposed declaring Tebas persona non grata at the club. Pérez responded with restraint, noting, “What would that achieve? We all already agree on this.”

The standoff between the two football powerbrokers quickly escalated, as the La Liga president issued a sharp rebuttal. In a post on X, Tebas lashed out at Pérez, branding him “a messianist, a sectarian, and a man who believes he alone holds the truth.”

Tebas went on to recall Pérez’s appearance on El Chiringuito in 2021, when the Madrid chief claimed that European football was teetering on the brink of economic collapse and only the Super League could save it. According to the La Liga president, Pérez’s current rhetoric is a continuation of that same line—attacking all footballing institutions.

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Tebas promised a detailed response to all of Pérez’s accusations in the near future, saying that some were false, others distorted, and a few “fail to reveal the full picture of what’s happening in Spanish and European football.”