The president reconfirmed at the top of the white club. He promised a major signing, in addition to the Inter player and Konate
No surprises, Florentino Perez, 79 years old, obtained around 62% of the votes and was re-elected as president of the Casa Blanca and will carry his eighth mandate until June 2030. But the election day experienced yesterday in Valdebebas, the Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid, was historic in its own way. The result of the first elections since 2006 in the most successful club in Spain was also positive for the loser, the 37-year-old impresario Enrique Riquelme who on May 12th was unknown to almost all the members and who in a few days was rewarded with almost 40% of the votes.
Incorrect calculation
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We remember that on May 12 Perez, in office until January 2029, decided to call early elections through a surreal press conference because he was sure that his opponent would never be able to accept the challenge. Too much money needed to present the candidacy, too little time to organize any campaign. And instead, in just a few days, the young Riquelme presented Real Madrid with the guarantee of 193 million euros of personal assets necessary to endorse his candidacy, then he began to work, immediately conquering a large slice of the history of Madridism that had been set aside by Florentino: Raul, Fernando Hierro, Iker Casillas and Vicente Del Bosque all jumped on Riquelme’s bandwagon. Who loudly denounced Florentino’s sacrilegious idea of privatizing the club by selling 5 percent of the shares, pointed the finger at the figure of Anas Laghrari, Perez’s partner who in the shadows acquired enormous power at the Casa Blanca, and shot high promising the arrival of Rodri and Erling Haaland from Manchester City, also promising a contact between Raul and Jurgen Klopp, the coach who has always refused Perez’s hand. Riquelme has received denials of all kinds, but it is clear that beyond unlikely transfer bombs the Madridista saw in him an alternative to the undisputed and unassailable Florentine excessive power.
The shot
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Who conquered Madrid in 2000 thanks to the Figo coup and had won the last elections in 2004. Then in February 2006 he resigned, returning in 2009 without opponents, and since then no one had had the courage to challenge him. Yesterday’s vote says that Madrid perceives that Perez is no longer what he once was, and not just because he is 79 years old. Madrid hasn’t won a major football tournament for two years, and has just ended its first blank season in basketball since 2011. Florentino signed José Mourinho but paid Benfica a 15 million release clause for a coach who was fired by Fenerbahce on 29 August. Then he has an agreement with Liverpool’s French centre-back Ibrahima Konate, who arrives as a free agent, and will also pay the 20 million euro clause needed to take Denzel Dumfries from Inter. Not very galactic names. So he promised a big coup worth 150 million euros for tomorrow. There has been talk of Olise, although Perez said it is not the French Bayern star. And of Vitinha, and Joao Neves. We will see. In the meantime, however, there is one certainty: these elections have shown Florentino that Madridism loves him less than he thought.
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