La Liga president Javier Tebas didn’t explicitly name Real Madrid during a lengthy social media post lamenting the cancelation of the Miami-based league fixture between Villarreal and Barcelona, but didn’t deploy much subtlety when accusing certain forces of “killing the project.”
The decision to stage a La Liga match outside Spain was subjected to rampant controversy. Real Madrid’s hierarchy, manager and players have made little secret of their utter disdain towards a money-grabbing scheme which they believe would “affect the integrity of the competition,” to use the words of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. Dani Carvajal called it a “clear corruption of the competition.”
