With whom do we have to go to the Madrid elections?

Informatively, the interest in Real Madrid's elections is unquestionable, but the level of the two presidential candidates demonstrates that the type of leadership in the world of football – there and here – is very low. They are privileged gentlemen with an outsized ego who confuse the part with the whole. In short, toxic masculinities with different styles, but with the same essence. For now, the one who has already won the white elections by sheer patheticness is a Florentino Pérez who has become an erratic being who rambles on repeating battles from 25 years ago, whatever the format: press conference or a massage-interview with friends like Iker Jiménez. It's easy to imagine a maid from an ex-colony cutting the hake into very small pieces so as not to choke. The opponent, however, is no anti-dandruff shampoo: Enrique Riquelme is the same old song, but further from the nursing home.

Fortunately, Barça can enjoy the grotesque spectacle from a distance because Florentino is no longer the necessary ally to resolve impossible problems. Gone is the key intervention of his trusted advisor without a position in the organization chart (what parallels, you!) to survive. Anas Laghrari was the facilitator of one of the famous levers that, in the summer of 2022, paved the way to incorporate Lewandowski, Raphinha, and Kounde a year after Leo Messi's tears and the divorce with Javier Tebas to let the Super League run. How good it is to have buried all that in the trunk of oblivion and to have been able to cover it well with the blanket of populism. Now that the balances with the enemies have changed, it is much more affordable to sit down with popcorn and laugh at the comic instability of the all-powerful antagonist. Until when?

At this point, what might be best for Barça is for Florentino to continue being the president of Real Madrid. After all, Joan Laporta knows him perfectly, and both of them know how to relate by stretching the ambiguous rope of what favors them in the eyes of their respective congregations at each moment. Riquelme, on the other hand, is a melon to open and can still shake a statu quo that the top blaugrana official is fine with as it is. He will shake it up later, when decadence has completely taken over the Death Star with the return of Darth Mourinho Vader, and when Barça's successes – which it once helped to save – finally drown the emperor. Let John Williams' score play.