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Ronaldo, Mourinho are ‘idiots’, says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez

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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has discovered himself within the midst of a debacle as a brand new report claims that he had labelled Cristiano Ronaldo “an idiot” in 2012.
Earlier on Tuesday, Perez was quoted criticising Real Madrid legends Raul Gonzalez and Iker Casillas as “the biggest frauds” in a recorded dialog in 2006. Now, El Confidencial has reported that the 74-year-old former politician had lambasted each Ronaldo and former Real Madrid head coach Jose Mourinho 9 years in the past.
“He’s crazy,” Perez was quoted as saying about Ronaldo.
“This guy is an idiot, a sick man. You think this guy is normal, but he’s not normal, otherwise, he wouldn’t do all the things he does.”
Ronaldo, who had joined Real Madrid in a document £80 million deal in 2009, ended his stint in 2018 because the membership’s all-time top-scorer with 451 targets. He additionally gained 4 Ballon d’Or awards and 4 UEFA Champions League titles with the membership.
Mourinho, who gained the La Liga with Real, was in cost between 2010 and 2013.
“These are guys with a terrible ego, both spoiled, the coach and him, and they don’t see reality,” Perez had reportedly stated. “Mourinho is an idiot. It is not that he does not want to play. Well, he’s a bit abnormal. He drives without a license. That said, he has been overwhelmed by the pressure.”
After his remarks on Raul and Casillas had been made public, the Los Blancos president on Tuesday responded in an official assertion, saying the feedback have been faraway from their broader context, including he intends to take authorized motion.
“Given the news broadcast in El Confidencial, in which phrases attributed to me are reported, I think it is necessary to clarify. The reproduced phrases are pronounced in conversations clandestinely recorded by Mr. Jose Antonio Abellan, who has been trying to sell them for many years without success,” the assertion stated.
“It is surprising now that, despite the time that has elapsed, the newspaper El Confidencial reports them today. They are single phrases of conversations taken from the broad context in which they occur.”
“For them to be reproduced now, after so many years have passed since those conversations took place, is I understand due to my participation as one of the promoters of the Super League. I have put the matter in the hands of my lawyers, who are studying the possible actions to take,” it added additional.