Real Madrid have called for the “immediate resignation” of La Liga president Javier Tebas after he drew comparisons between the club’s management and Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n
Tebas said Real Madrid’s communication and the use of its in-house TV channel “recalls propaganda mechanisms exploited by Goebbels”.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid have called the statement “deeply offensive” and “morally repugnant”.<\/p>\n
The club have also demanded Tebas steps down as both the head of the Spanish top flight and vice-president of the Spanish Football Association (RFEF).<\/p>\n
“Real Madrid considers it absolutely intolerable and extraordinarily serious that someone holding two positions of utmost responsibility in Spanish football resorts to a comparison with the propaganda methods of the Nazi regime to discredit our club, its management and its television,” the club said.<\/p>\n
In a lengthy post published on X on Friday, Tebas said: “Real Madrid’s management directs an orchestra of mouthpieces and Real Madrid TV leads the singing.<\/p>\n
“Their score is always the same: select the plays that suit them, repeat the grievance, feed the suspicion, and point fingers at the enemies.<\/p>\n
“That method recalls propaganda mechanisms exploited by Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s minister of propaganda: systematic repetition, construction of an enemy, and subordination of facts to the narrative.”<\/p>\n
Tebas later said he was drawing comparison with “those propaganda techniques” and “not with an ideology”.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid rejected this clarification, saying it did not mitigate the “institutionally unworthy nature of his statements”.<\/p>\n
The club added: “These statements constitute yet another episode in the repeated attacks by Javier Tebas against Real Madrid, its president and its media outlets.”<\/p>\n
Last month, Tebas criticised Real Madrid for claiming there was a refereeing conspiracy<\/a> against the club.<\/p>\n He also has been critical of Real and its president Florentino Perez in previous years after disagreeing with their plans to join a European Super League in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n