A member of the boardroom at Villarreal has this week hit out at La Liga rivals Real Madrid.
This comes in response to the role played by Los Blancos in seeing Villarreal’s planned meeting with Barcelona in the USA cancelled.
Villarreal and Barca had of course long been pencilled in to make history this coming December.
This came as the two clubs agreed to be the participants in the first-ever La Liga fixture played outside of Spain.
The matchup was organised to take place in Miami, Florida, in the days leading up to Christmas of this year.
Earlier this week, however, as much was rather abruptly cancelled.
After La Liga’s clubs staged a protest against the fixture last weekend, ensuing confirmation was forthcoming that it has been moved back to Villarreal’s home ground of La Cerámica.
And as alluded to above, evidently of the opinion that Real Madrid were the driving force behind the decision is Yellow Submarine CEO Fernando Roig Negueroles.
Speaking during an interview with Radio MARCA this week, Roig Negueroles took firm aim at Florentino Pérez and co, in explaining:
“Real Madrid acts as if they are against everyone. Two weeks ago, I was in Rome at the ECA meeting, and at the European level, Real Madrid are gradually losing influence because no one believes them anymore.
“At the Spanish level, especially in the media, you still give a lot of importance to what Real Madrid say.
“They are losing credibility because they object to everything, even good things, like this same match that they approved three or four years ago in a commission.
“Now they are changing their mind because they want to be against everyone. Their problem is that they complain about everything, even if something is in their favour, they will find a reason to object.”
Conor Laird – GSFN
