Florentino Perez, the filthy slip

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

During his totally lunar press conference delivered on Tuesday to announce the holding of new elections, Florentino Perez was notably guilty of sexist excesses.

Real Madrid is going through dark times. On and off the field. While the Merengue are out for another white season, the crisis is also brewing behind the scenes. And not only because of the escapades of its players like the fight between Aurélien Tchouameni and Federico Valverde or the recent unwelcome escapade of Kylian Mbappé in Sardinia with his new partner.

And Florentino Perez did not calm things down on Tuesday during the press conference he held to notably announce the holding of new elections in order to silence the protesters. The Madrid president has indeed increased his excesses, particularly against the ABC newspaper.

“You are all really, really ugly.”

The businessman was thus guilty of several sexist excesses. “ I am announcing that I will be unsubscribing from ABC. Nobody buys this newspaper,” he began.before targeting one of his reporters: “ Look at the two articles they published today, written by a woman, and I don’t even know if she knows much about football. »

A little later, it was a journalist from Fox Sport, Lola Hernandez, who paid the price for her rudeness when she wanted to ask a question. Florentino Perez indeed encouraged it in a manner that was inelegant to say the least. “Come on, young lady over there. She has the right to speak. You are all really very ugly,” he said. A way of doing things worthy of Donald Trump…