The pathetic press conference in which Florentino Pérez announced that he was calling elections ended with a threat. “They will have to throw me out with bullets,” he said. The weapons he has used so that there were no elections have not been insignificant and mainly demonstrate how much Enrique Riquelme worries him. From the surprise call for five working days to gather the super-millionaire guarantee –of the ten calendar days, five were holidays– to the suspicious refusal of BBVA and Santander to provide the candidate with the guarantee. The ambush has been perfectly calculated, even though Florentino's image was damaged after showing himself to be repetitive, obsessive, incoherent, and paranoid with the media.
For now, Riquelme has already achieved something that very few believed possible, considering not only the ambush but also the leonine conditions of the Statutes that Florentino Pérez modified, and he has been able to present 193.7 million euros and a team full of investors, various personalities from the business world and executives, including only one woman, Rocío Sobrini, who is the financial director of the marketing consultancy QDQ. The news is that, for the first time in twenty years, there will be elections at Real Madrid; the surprise would be if Florentino lost them.
not a single madridista on De la Fuente's listWhat concerns the member is the disaster the first team has become –not a single Madrid player on De la Fuente's list– and is aware that Pérez's option is Mourinho, who convinces almost no one for obvious reasons, so the candidate already knows he has two weeks to play the bench card and there are those who speculate that he has an ace up his sleeve and will slide in an alternative. Nothing better than a surprise attack to combat the trap that Florentino has turned the elections into, but it remains to be seen if he has the muscle, in addition to youth, money, and rich friends.
