Tebas hits back at Real Madrid with dig at Florentino Perez

Real Madrid has raised the stakes in its long-running feud with Javier Tebas by openly calling for him to step down as LaLiga president and accusing him of using his institutional position to attack the club. The response came quickly: in a message posted on X, Tebas fired back at Florentino Perez by pointing out that the Real Madrid president does not own the competition either.

• Real Madrid demands a replacement for Tebas with a duty of neutrality.
• The club describes as intolerable the use of his role to attack them.
• Tebas responds on X with a direct message aimed at Florentino Perez.
• The LaLiga president argues that representing everyone does not mean obeying the most powerful.

What Real Madrid is demanding over Tebas' future

Real Madrid believes LaLiga needs someone at the helm capable of running it and developing its full potential with the basic duty of neutrality. That is the core of the request included in the club's statement, which makes clear that Tebas no longer meets the conditions required to keep leading the organisation.

The Madrid club went further and described as intolerable the idea of the LaLiga president using his role to keep discrediting and attacking Real Madrid. In the same vein, it branded as very worrying that the person responsible for representing and protecting the interests of all clubs remains repeatedly obsessed with targeting the Spanish giants.

Tebas responds on social media

Javier Tebas reacted to the statement with a message on X that combined irony and firmness. The LaLiga president said he had read the text and fully agreed with one specific sentence: the LaLiga president is not the owner of the competition.

I have read the statement. I fully agree with one sentence: the LaLiga president is not the owner of the competition. Neither is the Real Madrid president.

With that closing remark, Tebas brought Florentino Perez directly into the argument, shifting the debate away from his own position. He did not limit himself to defending his record; he placed the Real Madrid chief on the same level to undercut the authority of the club's demands.

Defending everyone's interests without bending to Real Madrid

Tebas argued that his job at the top of LaLiga is not about adopting the discourse of any single club, but about protecting the wider interests of the competition. For him, defending one club's interests does not mean accepting its narrative, and representing everyone does not mean obeying the most powerful.

That line of argument points directly at the influence Real Madrid carries in Spanish football. Tebas has maintained for years that his decisions must serve all clubs rather than bend to the specific demands of the wealthiest or most influential institutions.

Another chapter in a broken relationship

The conflict between Real Madrid and Javier Tebas is not new. It has been fuelled for years by deep differences over how LaLiga should be run, the distribution of broadcasting rights and the Super League project. That last issue marked a turning point, with Florentino Perez as the main driver of the alternative European competition and Tebas as one of its loudest critics.

The club's statement and the immediate response from the LaLiga president show that reconciliation is far from close. Every public declaration adds another chapter to a dispute that plays out in offices, courtrooms and social media alike.

Tebas' final message summed up his stance with a sentence that captures how he views the role: he is not the owner of LaLiga, and he will not run it as if it belonged to a single club. He added that he respects everyone but subordinates himself to no one, a declaration of principles that closes this round of the war of words with Real Madrid for now.

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