Florentino Pérez announces a surprise urgent press conference

BarcelonaFlorentino Pérez has urgently summoned all the press this Tuesday afternoon for a press conference in Valdebebas (6 p.m.) after the Board of Directors meeting that took place this afternoon. The news has surprised everyone given the absolute silence emanating from the white team. Real Madrid lost on Sunday at the Camp Nou (2-0) and confirmed the second consecutive season without a title. Mbappé, Bellingham, Vinícius and company have once again been neutralized by Pedri, Gavi, and Lamine Yamal.

In recent weeks, there has been much speculation about Florentino Pérez's health, while coach Álvaro Arbeloa remains on thin ice. All this with Mourinho watching the whole panorama from a distance given the possibility of a return to the Bernabéu dugout. In recent days, tension in Madrid has increased after fights between several players on the squad. The last conflict —that of Tchouameni and Fede Valverde— ended with the Uruguayan in the hospital due to a head injury that caused him to miss the classic. The Whites host an Oviedo side already relegated to the second division this Thursday (9:30 p.m.).

Bench instability

It would not be the first time that Florentino Pérez —who first came to office in 2000— announced his resignation by surprise. In 2006, the top white executive announced that he was resigning in the middle of a Champions League tie of his "Madrid of the galácticos" against Arsenal. After losing 0-1 at the Bernabéu —with a goal from former blaugrana Henry— and losing 2-1 in Mallorca, the president stepped aside after strongly criticizing the squad. "Perhaps I have had too many concessions with players to sign a renewal. The club needs a change, a shot in the arm, an impulse. We have changed many coaches and all that is left is for me to leave. I am a bottleneck that needed to be removed. I haven't known how to guide the players and I've spoiled them," he expressed in his farewell.

Since Vicente del Bosque's departure in 2003, the white team had five coaches in three years: Carlos Queiroz, José Antonio Camacho, Mariano García Remón, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, and Juan Ramón López Caro. All of this before Florentino's first resignation, which put an end to the galácticos era. Ramón Calderón took over at the helm of the white entity, but only three years later Florentino returned to the presidency, a position he holds to this day.