Tebas blasts Real Madrid: "Real Madrid TV leads the chorus" and talks about media mouthpieces

Javier Tebas has once again raised the temperature in his verbal battle with Real Madrid. The LaLiga president posted a lengthy message on social media on Monday accusing the club of running a coordinated media pressure strategy, with journalists Tomás González Martín and Jesús Urdiola serving as alleged mouthpieces for the narrative coming out of Valdebebas. Tebas' reaction follows reports in the newspaper El Debate about Madrid's complaints over scheduling and refereeing management.

• Tebas accuses journalists Tomás González Martín and Jesús Urdiola of acting as Real Madrid spokespeople
• He labels Real Madrid TV the central piece of a propaganda machine
• He compares the club's methods to propaganda techniques attributed to Goebbels
• He challenges Real Madrid to publish all its fixture requests and the responses received
• He links Madrid's refereeing narrative to a permanent exploitation of the Negreira case

Tebas accuses journalists of being mouthpieces for Madrid's official line

Tebas doesn't stop at generalities: he directly targets the authors of the El Debate report. The president claims it is becoming harder each day to distinguish their articles from an official statement issued by Madrid's board. About Tomás González Martín, he says the journalist has become an official mouthpiece, to the point of reproducing expressions identical to those he himself has heard from a top executive at Valdebebas.

You look like a parrot, but with a keyboard

The LaLiga president insists that references to club sources are plentiful, but the distance from what those sources want to place in the public eye is minimal. He adds that this senior executive whose phrases are being repeated is not the same person who, he claims, calls newsrooms to demand the dismissal of journalists or pressures to remove executives at companies. Those practices, Tebas argues, are not a thing of the past but of the very present.

Real Madrid TV, the leading voice of an orchestra under suspicion

Tebas places the club's official channel at the heart of his argument. He claims that Madrid's management runs an orchestra of mouthpieces and that Real Madrid TV leads the chorus following a very clear script: select the plays that suit, repeat the grievance narrative, fuel suspicion and point at enemies. A dynamic that, in his view, recalls propaganda mechanisms exploited by Goebbels in Nazi Germany.

Tebas is careful to clarify that the comparison refers exclusively to propaganda techniques — systematic repetition, construction of an enemy and subordination of facts to narrative — and not to any ideology or to Madrid's fanbase. He then fires a series of uncomfortable questions at the club's channel: where is the exhaustive analysis of each matchday, where are the possible errors that hurt other clubs or those that benefit Real Madrid. If the same scrutiny were applied to every match, he claims, the script would fall apart.

The Negreira case as a permanent explanation for every refereeing decision

Tebas goes deeper into what he sees as the refereeing narrative coming from the club's surroundings. He claims the Madrid script demands that the club always appears as the victim, to the extreme of presenting a non-error as an error and resorting to the Negreira case as a permanent justification for any decision that doesn't suit them. For the LaLiga president, suspicion is treated as proven fact and the conclusion is written before the match even starts.

Fixtures: Tebas challenges Madrid to publish its full history of scheduling requests

The second major block of the message focuses on the scheduling dispute. Madrid's complaint about the kickoff time against Valencia becomes, for Tebas, one more example of a narrative built by hiding crucial context. That is why he challenges the club to explain how many requests for changes of time and day it has submitted throughout the season and how many have been granted.

According to the LaLiga chief, Real Madrid tops the table in this category. He asks that all approved requests be detailed too, including those related to the calendar and aimed at facilitating the events allowed by the superlicense granted to the Santiago Bernabéu. For Tebas, a complete balance sheet is essential: what the club asked for, what was granted and what could not be accommodated, with the reasons.

He also reminds that scheduling affects rivals, fans and the competition's audiovisual commitments. A request, he insists, does not become a right simply because it comes from Real Madrid, and a rejection does not prove persecution. LaLiga defends the competition as a whole, and what he finds unacceptable is asking for adjustments to days and times and then presenting every disagreement as evidence that the league is harming the club. If the conversation is about how the club has been treated, he concludes, then all of it must be told.

The final challenge: let the sources answer and Real Madrid TV change the script

The closing message is an invitation to full scrutiny. Tebas poses specific questions that journalists should put to their sources at Valdebebas, and suggests that Real Madrid TV has enough material to dedicate a entire program to the club's requests and the responses received. The question he leaves in the air is whether the channel will show the same enthusiasm for that history as it does for grievance videos.

Then, he concludes, the circuit closes: the rest of the mouthpieces amplify the message, Real Madrid TV provides the images and everyone repeats the same accusation. It is a message that further stirs the relationship between LaLiga and the Spanish giants, in a context shaped by mutual accusations over refereeing, scheduling and boardroom pressure tactics.