Real Madrid has escalated its feud with LaLiga president Javier Tebas, issuing an official club statement that brands his conduct unacceptable and calls for new leadership at the top of Spanish football’s governing body.
The statement arrived after Tebas fired back at suggestions of a refereeing “conspiracy” against Madrid, a row that intensified when manager Jose Mourinho produced printed screenshots of alleged missed red cards at his press conference following Sunday’s 2-1 derby defeat to Atletico Madrid.
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Madrid’s response pulled no punches, declaring it “intolerable” that the LaLiga president uses his position to “repeatedly disparage and attack” the club in nearly every public statement he makes.
The club argued that someone tasked with representing every LaLiga side instead appears “obsessively fixated” on Madrid alone, turning them into a recurring target.
The statement singled out the origin of Tebas’s latest remarks as especially troubling, noting they stemmed from commentary on an article by “an independent journalist in a digital media outlet,” which Tebas then used to critique the club’s sporting strategy a move Madrid called “utterly absurd and irresponsible.”
The club went further, questioning why the league president would devote his “personal channels” to discrediting a single club rather than reinforcing trust in the institutions meant to guarantee fair competition. In their view, that pattern continues to damage the image of Spanish football “worldwide.”
Madrid’s statement culminated in a pointed call for change at the top of the league, arguing Spanish football needs a leader capable of unlocking the competition’s potential while upholding “the fundamental duty of neutrality.”
The club drew a sharp distinction between ownership and administration, insisting the presidency exists to serve the clubs that “entrusted him with its leadership” not the reverse.
The statement lands just days after Tebas responded publicly to a pro-Madrid article, dismissing bias claims against the club as detached from reality.
He argued that framing referees as answerable to “the business that feeds them” insults the principle of equal treatment across the league, and rejected the idea that LaLiga’s value rests on Madrid alone.
He also suggested the conspiracy narrative conveniently distracts from the club’s shaky start to the season, six points adrift of leaders Barcelona.
Tension between the two sides is nothing new. Tebas and club president Florentino Perez have clashed repeatedly over the years on financial regulation, refereeing standards, and now institutional conduct itself. But this statement marks one of Madrid’s most pointed public rebukes yet, moving beyond a single dispute to question Tebas’s fitness for the role altogether.
