Madrid president Florentino Perez used his Christmas address to draw attention to the Negreira case, the refereeing corruption charge against Barcelona. Perez referred to it as the "biggest scandal in the history of football" and called for the Blaugrana to be punished, which is the opposite of the 2024 address in which he claimed Madrid and Barcelona needed to stick together.
Real Madrid has apologized after showing a photo of the wrong player in a video tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva, who died in a car crash in Spain in July. Instead of a photo of Silva, Madrid used an image of Elche player André da Silva during Madrid's general assembly on Sunday. "There was an error in the institutional video," Madrid president Florentino Pérez said. "We apologize, it was a human error."