The rumor only circulated on social media, but it was persistent enough to force Real Madrid to react. In recent days, rumors in the hallway announced the possible departure of Florentino Pérez from the presidency of the Casa Blanca, his current mandate ending in 2025. The 76-year-old Spanish leader is nearly 20 years old at the head of the Madrid club (from 2000 to 2006 then from 2009 to the present day) and many see the time of departure getting closer. Something to annoy the giant merengue.
“Faced with a rumor that appeared on some social networks claiming that President Florentino Pérez was supposedly considering leaving the presidency of the club, Real Madrid CF would like to state the following: – That these rumors are totally false and obey vested interests which are nothing of what they have to do with reality. And that at the next General Assembly of Representative Partners of Real Madrid, there will be no item on the agenda in which the name of the city of Real Madrid will be discussed.
Pérez would dream of Nadal!
However, Sport assures that several clues suggest that Pérez would prepare his last dance. Thus, several presidents of peñas madridistas (Real Madrid fan clubs) have launched petitions for the Real Madrid training center to be renamed “Ciudad Deportiva Florentino Pérez”, in tribute to the work done by their president. Then, Pérez’s absence from the club’s tour of the United States did not go unnoticed as it was the first time that Pérez did not join his team.
Isn’t the Catalan media exaggerating a bit? The future will tell us, but Sport adds that several names have already been mentioned to take up the torch. The first is Emilio Butragueño, the club’s current director of institutional relations. It takes a known figure to play this role and Butragueño is now the club’s most famous manager, after Pérez. Current CEO José Angel Sanchez and recruiter Juni Calafat are also two other very serious candidates, but the daily concludes that a slightly crazy idea is germinating in Pérez’s head. The latter would like to install the tennis player Rafael Nadal on the throne! Roger Federer’s former rival is a die-hard Casa Blanca supporter and no doubt he would give the position some media exposure.
