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Real Madrid calls for LaLiga chief Javier Tebas to resign
Real Madrid has called for LaLiga president Javier Tebas to resign after comments he made about the club.
Tebas said the club’s leadership and television channel repeat complaints about referees, fuel suspicion and identify enemies.
He said this approach recalled propaganda methods used by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda chief, but stressed he was comparing techniques, not ideology.
Real Madrid called the comparison deeply offensive and said it showed Tebas lacked the neutrality required for his role; the club also wants him to leave his post as vice-president of Spain’s football federation.
The dispute reflects a wider fight over refereeing, with Real Madrid TV regularly showing decisions the club considers errors and Tebas criticising those broadcasts.
The club has also accused Tebas of not doing enough over a judicial investigation into alleged payments by Barcelona to a refereeing official; Tebas says LaLiga acted from the start.
Tebas rejected the resignation demand and said Madrid’s leaders had repeatedly sought his removal, while accusing them of trying to intimidate him.
No further action following the demand was stated.
Real Madrid has demanded that LaLiga president Javier Tebas resign after he compared the club’s media strategy with Nazi propaganda techniques.
Tebas said Real Madrid’s management and television channel promote a narrative that the club is wronged by referees and league decisions.
Real Madrid called the comparison deeply offensive and said Tebas lacked the neutrality and impartiality required for his roles.
The club called for his immediate resignation as LaLiga president and vice-president of the Spanish football federation.
The dispute also touches on Real Madrid’s criticism of Tebas over an ongoing investigation into Barcelona’s alleged payments to a refereeing official.
- Who
- Real Madrid and LaLiga president Javier Tebas.
- What
- Real Madrid called for Tebas to resign after he compared the club’s media strategy with Nazi propaganda techniques.
- When
- Friday, 16 October 2026.
- Where
- The dispute took place in Spanish football and was aired publicly on social media and in a Real Madrid statement.
- Why
- Tebas said the club’s management and television channel repeat grievances and promote suspicion about refereeing and league decisions; Real Madrid called the comparison offensive and incompatible with his responsibilities.
Real Madrid
Javier Tebas
Comparison with Nazi propaganda
Real Madrid
The comparison was deeply offensive and morally repugnant, and was unacceptable for a senior football official.
Javier Tebas
Tebas said he was comparing techniques, not Nazi ideology or Real Madrid fans.
Real Madrid’s media strategy
Real Madrid
The club rejected Tebas’s characterization and said his comments were part of repeated attacks on the club and its media.
Javier Tebas
Tebas said the club’s management and television channel repeatedly select plays, repeat grievances, feed suspicion and point to enemies.
Tebas’s fitness for office
Real Madrid
Real Madrid said his conduct showed a lack of neutrality, respect and impartiality and demanded his immediate resignation.
Javier Tebas
Not stated.
Real Madrid demanded Tebas step down after he criticised the club over its attack on a refereeing crew following a 2-1 loss at Atlético Madrid.
Tebas criticised Real Madrid’s media strategy in a social media post and compared its methods with propaganda techniques used by Joseph Goebbels.
Real Madrid responded by calling for Tebas’s immediate resignation.
- LaLiga president
- Javier Tebas
- Club demanding resignation
- Real Madrid
- Resignation demand
- Immediate resignation as LaLiga president and RFEF vice-president
- Comparison cited
- Nazi propaganda techniques used by Joseph Goebbels
- Social media platform
- X
- Previous demand
- Real Madrid called for Tebas to step down in September 2026
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What people are saying
Real Madrid's management directs an orchestra of mouthpieces and Real Madrid TV leads the singing.
That method recalls propaganda mechanisms exploited by Goebbels, Nazi Germany's minister of propaganda: systematic repetition, construction of an enemy, and subordination of facts to the narrative.
Real Madrid considers it absolutely intolerable and extraordinarily serious that someone holding two positions of utmost responsibility in Spanish football resorts to a comparison with the propaganda methods of the Nazi regime to discredit our club, its management and its television.
The repeated conduct of Javier Tebas shows a lack of neutrality, respect and impartiality incompatible with his institutional responsibilities.
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Tomás Gonzalez Martin y Jesus Urdiola , cada día resulta más difícil distinguir vuestros artículos de un comunicado de la dirección del Real Madrid.Tomas sobretodo te has convertido en su portaCOZ oficial, hasta el extremo de utilizar expresiones idénticas a las que he escuchado