Real Madrid have made their frustration with the refereeing standards in Spain perfectly clear, with President Florentino Perez even suggesting to his Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) counterpart that they should import English referees last year. Next week they will present their proposal for a new system of refereeing.
Last week Real Madrid sent a four-page letter to RFEF President Rafael Louzan, complaining that the referees in La Liga were ‘corrupt, manipulated and had robbed them of trophies’, a move that was met with widespread backlash from the rest of Spain. La Liga have since sent a formal complaint to the Competition Committee about the letter, which Los Blancos could face punishment for.
According to Cadena SER, who explain that Los Blancos will present their own reforms for Spanish refereeing. Their letter demanded that any of the referees involved during the period were Ex-Vice President of the Referees Commitee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, who is being investigated for sporting corruption, be dismissed. However their fresh proposal will focus on ‘transparency’, and in particular, ensuring that the conversations in the ‘VOR room’, where the VAR officiates from, become public.
How that proposal goes down is another matter. La Liga President Javier Tebas has accused Real Madrid of not wanting to change the refereeing system but to control it. Louzan also announced that ‘structural changes’ were coming to the officiating system, ahead of a meeting last week that included La Liga, the Referees Committee and the clubs – Real Madrid decided not to attend the meeting, aimed at making improvements.
Carlo Ancelotti noted that what Real Madrid were looking for were explanations and improvements, but many have asked why Los Blancos did not attend the meeting aimed at doing so. In addition, the likes of Sevilla, Osasuna and Atletico Madrid have registered their discontent with Real Madrid over the issue.
Real Madrid is seeking to be favoured in matches they play in, like other teams don’t have a say.
They should do the talking on the pitch.
Check the statistics, the club have been on the wrong end of VAR decisions since it’s incorporation, more than any other Spanish club by a long distance. There is a clear and obvious bias against Real Madrid and the statistics back that up.
Whether you’re emotionally in agreement with that or not, it is undeniable most recent decision making is uncomfortably discrediting the credibility of the league.
Don’t tallk with your mouth. Show that statistics. You are just ranting. Who has benefited from wrong refereeing decisions than Real Madrid? Last season alone, referees’ wrong decisions was enough to win you la liga. This season, you have been awarded 10 penalty calls most of them are very frivolous and the only one awarded against you last week, you wrote a long letter to the world that you are being cheated. Boss go and sleep.
Completely and utterly false. An recent article in Mundo Deportivo broke down the actual statistics for penalties and for disallowed goals through VAR from the initiation of the system in 2018-19 until the present.
Madrid has benefitted the most (by far) in both categories. The statistics reflect the exact opposite of what you’re claiming here.
Did even read the article?