The war of words is relaunched. For several days, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid have been sending each other a few kindnesses via the press. Joan Laporta responds to Florentino Pérez and so on. The criticisms are not personal between the two presidents, but each defends their institution. The latest sting came from Catalonia, as recently as Thursday evening. “ Real Madrid is suffering from serious Barcelona disease. It is now acute “, launched Laporta, before driving the point home: “ the situation is getting out of control. »
Indeed, it has been a long time since the two biggest clubs in Spain have engaged in such opposition in the media but also in public opinion. Real Madrid is using the Negreira affair as fuel to better illustrate its criticisms and so-called advantages granted to the Blaugrana. Real Madrid TV is the perfect destabilization tool for this. The club’s official channel is widely followed in Spain and has a large audience serving as a sounding board to highlight certain situations.
Negreira case against Real Madrid TV
She takes great pleasure in giving the history of the errors made by the referee of the next match, always against Real Madrid of course. “ They are the same ones who own a lousy television channel from which they spew lies and poison the atmosphere constantly and permanently », hit Laporta again, evoking in turn “ cynicism, arrogance and despotism » from Real Madrid TV which, according to him, flouts the rules and ethics. In response, Casa Blanca is dragging out the Negreira affair to better damage the image of its great rival.
Real uses arbitration to adopt the position of a victim who would be persecuted. On the pitch, the two giants respond blow for blow with, at the height of their antagonism, this series of four victories last season for the Catalans, including a 4-0 inflicted on the Santiago Bernabeu in La Liga, or the Copa del Rey final won after extra time (3-2). In reality, Real and Barça have been tugging at each other for a while now, after a long period of calm. We have to go back to 2023 to find the beginning of an explanation, when the two teams were still in the same camp regarding the Super League.
Laporta dropped his former ally Perez
But since then, FC Barcelona has fallen into line, joined the fold of UEFA by mending with Aleksander Čeferin then with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, president of the ECA. The reunion between the three institutions was made official during the Champions League meeting between the Catalans and PSG at the start of the season. Laporta left Florentino Pérez, his former ally now isolated on the European scene. The two men no longer have a cause in common, the war could start again and this is undoubtedly only the beginning.
