Florentino Pérez is trying to turn Barcelona into the villain of Real Madrid’s collapse.
After a season defined by fractures inside the dressing room, institutional chaos, and another year without major silverware, the Real Madrid president has suddenly launched a media offensive centered around the Negreira case, referee conspiracies, and alleged anti Madrid journalism. The timing is impossible to ignore. Pérez’s 40 minute appearance with Josep Pedrerol this week was not an attempt at transparency. It was an attempt at redirection. Rather than addressing why the most expensive and politically protected project in world football is beginning to unravel, Pérez chose to reopen old wounds involving FC Barcelona and present Real Madrid CF as the victim of a vast institutional conspiracy. It was classic siege mentality politics. Feed the supporters an external enemy so they stop looking inward. The Negreira case remains a legitimate and serious legal issue. But Pérez is not discussing it out of moral concern. He is weaponizing it at the precise moment his own club is de...
