Real Madrid hits back at Tebas: "It is intolerable"

Real Madrid raised its voice on Tuesday with an official statement responding harshly to Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, after he attacked the club over Jose Mourinho's complaints about the refereeing in the Madrid derby. The club describes the executive's attitude as "intolerable" and accuses him of waging a constant campaign against the team.

• Real Madrid issues an official statement against Javier Tebas after his post-derby criticism.
• The club calls it "intolerable" that the LaLiga president uses his position to attack the team.
• Mourinho had criticized referee Ortiz Arias and VAR official Daniel Trujillo.
• Tebas responded on social media with an ironic message about referees and Real Madrid.
• The club demands a neutral and honest leader at the helm of the competition.

How the dispute started: Mourinho's complaints about the derby refereeing

The controversy began with the Portuguese coach's remarks after the Madrid derby. Mourinho called referee Ortiz Arias a "poor official" and described Daniel Trujillo, the VAR in charge, as someone with a "rich history" of decisions against Real Madrid. He also congratulated the Referees Committee on what he considered a "strange" appointment, casting doubt over the impartiality of the officiating body.

Tebas jumps into the fray on social media

Far from calming tensions, Tebas used his personal channels to respond to the club with a message full of irony. "When it is not Negreira, it is the referee; when it is not that, it is that he is not an international. Every club can be refereed by international officials and by those who are not. Nobody has the right to a made-to-order refereeing," wrote the LaLiga president, in a clear nod to Real Madrid's claims.

Real Madrid responds: "It is intolerable"

The statement issued by the club leaves no doubt about the level of internal frustration. The club considers it "intolerable that the president of LaLiga uses his institutional position to keep discrediting and attacking Real Madrid the way he does in each and every one of his interventions".

It is deeply concerning that the person responsible for representing and protecting the interests of all LaLiga clubs remains repeatedly obsessed with Real Madrid, turning our club into a permanent target of his public attacks.

The club denounces a sustained campaign against its image

For Real Madrid, Tebas' behavior is not an isolated incident but the latest chapter in a pattern that repeats itself over time. The statement underlines that the head of LaLiga keeps trying to publicly discredit the club, and that his public discourse ends up damaging the image of the competition itself.

The club's response emphasizes the need for whoever leads LaLiga to help build trust in the bodies responsible for guaranteeing the impartiality of the tournament. Instead, they believe the president spends his time fueling controversy against Real Madrid, which in the club's view harms Spanish football as a whole.

Commenting on the sporting strategy, another point of friction

The statement also criticizes Tebas for allowing himself to comment on the club's sporting strategy. Real Madrid considers it a "complete and irresponsible nonsense" that the LaLiga president should weigh in on decisions that, in their view, belong exclusively to the club's internal sphere and not to someone holding an institutional position.

The final demand: a neutral president for LaLiga

The closing of the statement goes beyond a simple complaint. Real Madrid calls for a change of direction in the management of the competition and demands "urgently a leader capable of managing it and developing its full potential with the fundamental duty of neutrality".

The club led by Florentino Perez insists that the head of LaLiga acts as a manager at the service of the clubs that make up the tournament, not as its owner. Therefore, they demand that Tebas understand the nature of his role and serve that mission with honesty, instead of turning Real Madrid into the target of his public interventions.