Why Nobody Can Fix Real Madrid

In 63 minutes, Florentino Pérez never once mentioned Xabi Alonso. Never mentioned the Valverde-Camavinga fight. Never mentioned Barcelona winning La Liga. Never mentioned the Champions League exit. Never mentioned the plan for next season. He pulled out his phone and started reading headlines out loud. Then he called a female journalist ugly and mocked a presidential rival for having a Mexican accent. Spain's most pro-Madrid newspaper — Marca, the outlet that exists to defend this club — called it confusing, chaotic, and absent of any self-criticism. When the cheerleader stops cheering, the building is on fire. Three managers in one year. Players hospitalising each other at training. Barcelona winning back-to-back La Liga titles while Madrid watched. A €150 million bank guarantee to even run against him. A voting system so structurally locked that he has won every election since 2009 — most of them unopposed. Florentino Pérez is 79 years old. He built the Bernabéu. He signed Ronaldo, Zidane, and Mbappé. He won seven Champions Leagues. He is by any measure the most successful football executive alive. And that is precisely the problem. Because when you've been proved right that many times, you stop believing you can be wrong. Real Madrid cannot be fixed because the man who runs it cannot tell the difference between Real Madrid being in trouble and Florentino being in trouble. He defended himself. Because to him — that was the same job. AsWatch connected the dots on the quietest power crisis in football. Subscribe to AsWatch — we don't just watch football. We see what's really happening. #realmadrid #florentinoperez #championsleague #footballanalysis #footballdocumentary