One regular day of LaLiga, that’s all they are asking for. It did not require fluent Spanish to understand the gravity of Real Madrid’s ‘Comunicado Oficial’ last Friday afternoon. A press release containing mention of Javier Tebas, the LaLiga president, alongside Joseph Goebbels and the “ministro de Propaganda del régimen nazi” signalled a drastic escalation in their long-running dispute with the Spanish league and that tensions with rivals Barcelona had reached a peak ahead of this weekend’s Clasico at Camp Nou.
In the statement, Real Madrid demanded Tebas to resign after he compared the club’s criticism of referees through their in-house TV channel to “propaganda techniques” used by the Nazis during the second world war. The 15-time Champions League winners called the language used by Tebas “deeply offensive” and “morally repugnant”. Tebas, in turn, issued his second lengthy social media post of the day in which he largely doubled down in accusing Real Madrid of “intimidation” and seeking to “destroy” the Spanish league.
