Real Madrid boss says leak of audios is Super League payback

The conversations reportedly took place at the end of Pérez’s first stint as the club’s president, which ended in 2006.

Old audio recordings of Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez privately criticising some of the club’s former players were publicly released as retribution for his involvement in the Super League, he said on Tuesday. The Spanish newspaper El Confidencial on Tuesday published an article saying Pérez made several critical remarks about former stars Iker Casillas and Raúl González. He reportedly said Casillas wasn’t good enough for Madrid and González thought he owned the club. Pérez reportedly called them the two “great frauds” of Madrid. “I understand that the fact that they have been published now, so many years on from the time the conversations took place, owes to my involvement as one of the driving forces behind the Super League,” Pérez said in a statement. “I have placed the matter in the hands of my lawyers, who are examining the course of action to be taken.”