LaLiga takes legal action against Real Madrid | OneFootball

The bomb has exploded. The Spanish League has denounced, as announced on El Partidazo de Cope, before the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal Spanish Federation, the letter sent by Real Madrid after the match against Espanyol criticizing the refereeing performance after not seeing Romero red carded for a tackle on Mbappé, and questioning the integrity of the competition. Once the complaint has been received, statements will be requested from Real Madrid and an investigation will begin.

Real Madrid felt they were seriously disadvantaged in their match against Espanyol in Cornellà. The Whites were defeated by a goal scored by Romero, who should have been sent off. The player made a hard tackle on Kylian Mbappé that should have been a straight red card, but neither Muñiz Ruiz on the field nor Iglesias Villanueva in the VAR considered it as such. Minutes later Romero sent the ball into the back of the net and left the three points at the RCDE Stadium.

The controversial letter

After the controversial decision, the Whites issued an official statement expressing their outrage in no uncertain terms: “The scandal generated by this last match, the repercussions of which have transcended our borders, is not an isolated event or a minor incident, but the unequivocal confirmation that the competition is flawed by refereeing decisions whose justification is untenable. Real Madrid cannot accept that the competition continues to be governed by a discredited refereeing system, whose main people responsible, far from being removed, continue to play a decisive role in decision-making. Superficial changes and the replacement of some managers are not enough; the only way to restore the credibility of Spanish refereeing requires a comprehensive reform that includes, as an essential element, the replacement of those referees whose links to periods under suspicion compromise the legitimacy of the system and perpetuate its lack of transparency,” said the white club.

A few days ago, Tebas had already responded to Real Madrid

In response to the statement, days later the president of LaLiga used his social networks to respond to Real Madrid’s formal complaint to the RFEF and the CSD where he said that “we voted to change the system and they (the white club) opposed it and did not provide solutions”.

“I was not at all surprised by Real Madrid’s letter, as it says nothing different from what their television has been repeating for some time,” said Tebas. ‘Many of us advocate a radical change in the refereeing system, moving towards the English or German model, with a completely different organization and much more transparency in all the structural decisions of Spanish refereeing,’ he explained.

“What is truly striking is that, at a LaLiga meeting on April 19, 2023, we debated and even voted on this change, and Real Madrid opposed it, showing themselves to be lukewarm and without proposing solutions,” he said, adding, ”Could it have something to do with the fact that, at that time, the president of the RFEF was Rubiales and Florentino Pérez was a member of the RFEF’s Board of Directors? And mind you, the ‘Negreira’ case was already in court, and it took weeks for Real Madrid to appear. Why? By the way, when it comes to ‘corrupt systems’, they can teach us very little, and I’m not referring to Real Madrid as an institution,” he concluded.

The reaction of the referees: going on strike and stopping LALIGA

The referees also reacted to Real Madrid’s words, with talk of the possibility of going on strike and stopping LaLiga. Isaac Fouto on El Partidazo de COPE admitted that there are LALIGA EA SPORTS referees who have expressed the option of going on strike to him: “Yes, there are First Division referees who believe they should go on strike”.

Calling a strike by referees would not be an easy task as it would have to be a unanimous decision for it to happen: “The strike is either all of us… some have said they would go on strike, but it has to be all of us”. This option, which is hovering over the arbitration environment, would come as a response to the hostility they have been receiving recently: “It is being considered, it is being considered in the environment. If things take this turn, the competition will be stopped”.