Real Madrid have demanded the resignation of La Liga president Javier Tebas after he compared the club's media strategy to 'Nazi propaganda' in an extraordinary social media post.
Tebas accused selected journalists of promoting the views of senior Real officials, stating they were acting as the club's 'official mouthpiece' and portraying Los Blancos as victims of refereeing decisions.
Tebas's social media attack
"Real Madrid's management directs an orchestra of mouthpieces and Real Madrid TV leads the singing," Tebas wrote on social media.
"Their score is always the same: select the plays that suit them, repeat the grievance, feed the suspicion, and point fingers at the enemies.
"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.
"The comparison is with those propaganda techniques, not with an ideology or, of course, with the Madridista fanbase. Real Madrid TV is a central piece of that machinery. Where is the full match analysis for each round of games?
"Where are the possible errors that harm other clubs or those that favor Real Madrid? If they applied the same magnifying glass to every match, the result might ruin their script. But the script demands that Real Madrid always appear as the victim."
Real Madrid's furious response
Real responded in a lengthy statement on their website, branding the comparison 'morally repugnant'.
"The repeated conduct of Javier Tebas shows a lack of neutrality, respect and impartiality incompatible with his institutional responsibilities," they wrote.
"Real Madrid CF considers it absolutely intolerable and extraordinarily serious that someone who occupies two positions of utmost responsibility in Spanish football should resort to a comparison with the propaganda methods of the Nazi regime to discredit our club, its management and its television.
"His constant attacks on Real Madrid and those who demand transparency and regeneration constitute, in the opinion of our club, a real scourge for Spanish football.
"Consequently, Real Madrid CF demands his immediate resignation as president of LaLiga and vice president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation."
Tebas hits back
Tebas insists he is unconcerned by Real's latest demand, accusing the club and 'their lapdogs' of trying to destroy La Liga.
He wrote: "I've lost count of the times that, in thirteen years, Real Madrid's leaders have demanded my resignation or tried to disqualify me: complaints to the CSD, directly or through third parties, criminal lawsuits… Today's is just another one.
"What still hasn't arrived are the responses. They confuse neutrality with independence. My position demands independence, not passivity in the face of injustice or silence in the face of the continuous, disproportionate, and insulting attacks from Real Madrid TV and its lapdogs on our competition.
"The La Liga president must defend it. Including against Real Madrid's leaders. My conclusion: they seek to DESTROY the national competition.
"What they haven't achieved so far with the Superliga, they're trying with a distorted narrative from their media and their lapdogs. They call it regeneration while attacking the prestige of the competition they participate in."
