In a week, the members of Real Madrid will elect their president. Two candidates are opposed: Florentino Pérez, current boss of the club, and Enrique Riquelme, ambitious young Spanish businessman. For the moment, Pérez is widely favored by the polls, but Riquelme has a few assets to get Madrid’s public opinion in his pocket.
We know that, whether in Barcelona or Real Madrid, presidential elections are won largely thanks to the transfer window. The candidate who promises to recruit the players deemed most attractive to supporters will have a good chance of winning. If Florentino Pérez has been quite discreet on this subject, Enrique Riquelme has already teased major arrivals, evoking “the arrival of two superstars” several times during his public appearances.
Rodri, Riquelme’s first recruit
Saturday, while the football world was focused on the Champions League final between PSG and Arsenal, Enrique Riquelme said a little more. And this time he gave a name. “If I am elected president, a player like Rodri will play for Real Madrid”he declared to the Cadena COPEconfirming his desire to seek the 2024 Ballon d’Or. An arrival which also goes in the direction of a Hispanicization of the workforce, he who also mentioned “the painful shame of not having any Real Madrid player in the Spanish selection”. A very sensitive subject in Madrid at the moment…
That’s not all, since he also confided that he will give one or more new name(s) of recruits from Wednesday. In Spain, there is already speculation about Erling Haaland, Rodri’s teammate at Manchester City. A name that Riquelme has, for the moment, not wanted to confirm. Suffice to say that this last week of the electoral campaign promises to be very hot…
