It was a grotesque press conference, full of falsehoods regarding the Negreira case, a smokescreen and a strategy to divert attention after two years without winning anything.
“What Florentino Perez has said cannot be true because Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez were playing. It is impossible that Barcelona have stolen league titles,” he said (h/t Que Thi Jugues).
There were medical staff blunders regarding Kylian Mbappé's fitness, with doctors reportedly treating the wrong leg. And it cannot be overstated, that at a club like Real Madrid, silverware is the be-all, end all. Rather than addressing why the team has gone two seasons without a major trophy, Pérez spent his press conference boasting about his 66 total titles and his status as the "best president in history."
