A new and striking revelation in the case surrounding the leaked audio fragments. Real Madrid said in a statement Thursday morning that Spanish journalist José Antonio Abellán attempted to bribe Eduardo Fernández de Blas, then Real’s vice-president, in 2011. according to The Royal Abellán asked no less than ten million euros to make the much-discussed fragments disappear.
“Onda Cero reveals that in 2011, Abellán met Real Madrid’s vice president Eduardo Fernández de Blas at the Combarro restaurant. During this meeting, he blackmailed him by asking ten million euros to make the illegal and manipulated audio fragments disappear. “, according to the Twitter message of the Madrid superpower. The fragments would include how chairman Florentino Pérez calls Cristiano Ronaldo an ‘idiot’ and club icons Iker Casillas and Raúl ‘crooks’.
El Transistor de Onda Cero revela que Abellán tuvo en 2011 una reunión con el vicepresidente del RM, Eduardo Fernández de Blas, en el restaurante Combarro, en la que le chantajeó pidiendo 10 millones de € para hacer desaparecer los audiosmanipulidas de manera il .
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on the door El Confidencial Leaked audio clips can be heard as Pérez opens the attack on Ronaldo. “He’s crazy. That guy is an idiot sick man. You think the guy is normal, but he’s not. If he was normal, he wouldn’t do the things he does. Why do you think he does so many stupid things?” Perez says of Ronaldo, who played for Real between 2009 and 2018. The new material that El Confidencial Published on Wednesday comes from two different conversations, the last of which dates back to October 2012. Perez was not only loud about Ronaldo, but also about his agent Jorge Mendes and former Real coach José Mourinho.
“Those men have a terrible ego. They are spoiled and lost sight of reality. Elsewhere they could make a huge amount of money. That’s abnormal. Then we are talking about portrait rights. Even with those defiant faces that make everyone hate them,” Pérez continued. Fábio Coentrão was also told by the president. “He’s a brainless player, that makes guys get eaten in Madrid. At the moment he is shit and Mourinho is an idiot for letting him play.”
Pérez hits back hard: “He has been trying to do that for many years without success”
Real Madrid president Jose Antonio Abellán replied on Tuesday.
Audio clips leaked on Tuesday showing Pérez accusing Raul of destroying the club, while calling Casillas “the biggest failure we’ve ever had”. “You have people who worship him; I don’t understand any of that. People defend him, but he is a big con man. Just like Raul. The two biggest scammers in Real Madrid’s history are Raul and Casillas,” said Perez, who left in 2006 after six years and returned as president of Real Madrid in 2009. “They are very selfish and you can’t count on them. Anyone who does count on them is wrong.”
Pérez released a statement on Real’s website shortly after the fragments were leaked. “The sentences are spoken in conversations recorded by Mr. José Antonio Abellán, who has been trying to sell the conversations for many years without success. It is now surprising that, despite the time that has passed, the newspaper El Confidencial is now collecting the statements. They are just a few sentences from conversations with a broader context. These statements are only now being surfaced, so many years after these talks took place.”