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Matchday!
Real Madrid football returns today after international break. We face Elche today at 9 p.m. CET. It’s another match away — we won’t be back at the Bernabéu until December 7, when we host Celta.
The players already arrived in Elche.
Perez speech
President Florentino Pérez has delivered a lengthy speech when he opened the 2025 General Assembly of Delegate Members. He talked about many things, recognized Ancelotti, Modric, Vazquez – and even Vallejo – contributions. And mentioned Bernabéu, the Negreira Case, the CVC deal in Spanish football, the Super League, etc.
About La Liga
Let me share a thought here: how far away we are from the time when the president of LaLiga took office in 2013, reducing his salary to €348,000. At that time, Mr Tebas considered the €395,000 earned by his predecessor, President Astiazarán, to be excessive. It turns out that Tebas has increased his salary more than tenfold, at the expense of clubs that have to sell their players in order to survive.”
The Miami match is another prime example of what is happening in Spain, and how difficult it is for most clubs to speak out against football leaders.
Despite widespread opposition to the Miami match, as far as we know, not a single club reported the situation to the Higher Sports Council. Not one. Only Real Madrid did so. And this is yet another example of what I mentioned earlier. We have the institutional strength to deal with these situations, which are clearly against the interests of the clubs themselves.
Super League
The Super League has already achieved, without question, a great success for football. We have permanently dismantled, in record time, a UEFA monopoly that had lasted more than 70 years and would otherwise have destroyed our future.
The reality is that of the 21 points addressed by the Madrid Provincial Court in its latest ruling on the Super League a few days ago, we were proven right on all 21 and they were even ordered to pay the costs.
What is more, the resounding nature of the rulings obtained allows us, apart from promoting the organisation of our own competition, to claim from UEFA the enormous damages amounting to millions that their illegal behaviour has caused us by blocking our project in abuse of their dominant position. I can announce here that we have initiated the corresponding process of financial claims against UEFA.
