Just when you thought the presidential race had reached ‘Peak Madrid’, Florentino Pérez went and raised the stakes yet again.
Determind not to be outdone by his challenger Enrique Riquelme, who waved around a “Haaland 9” jersey in front of two ant puppets on Wednesday night, the 79-year-old Pérez appeared on prime-time Spanish talk show Horizonte, announcing that he had lined up a record-breaking deal for a “total Galáctico.”