Enrique Riquelme has gone on the attack. With the start of the electoral campaign and the date of the elections already defined, the presidential candidate He continues to attend to the media to explain his position, his plans for members, his sports project… and also to criticize some of Florentino Pérez’s policies. In this case, directly targeting a person very close to the president, Anas Laghrari.
“Why is the privatization of the club, as well as that of the Super League and many other matters, in the hands of someone very close to him, someone who recently became a member by skipping all possible waiting lists? Why is there a person with so much power next to the president who does not hold any official position and who is also involved in most of the club’s operations?” Riquelme said in an interview with The Athletic.
It is someone who recently became a member, skipping all possible waiting lists.
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In this interview, in addition to insisting that he has two big signings closed and talking about a coach for a long project, Riquelme once again criticizes the privatization of the club, the corporate change that Florentino Pérez wants to approve in the coming months: “Why should Real Madrid stop belonging to its members? Is the club really in such a precarious financial situation that this is necessary? (…) In reality, privatization is being used as an excuse to justify the change of statutes.”
Is the club really in such a precarious financial situation that this is necessary?
“One thing I can promise with absolute certainty is that I would never implement the idea of privatizing the club, because it is simply unnecessary. Real Madrid could reduce its costs directly between 130 and 140 million euros without any problem,” explains Riquelme, who looks directly at the club’s television again: “Take Real Madrid TV as an example.. “Its operating costs far exceed what would be considered normal for the audience share it generates.”
