Tensions within the Real Madrid squad have sparked recent rumours of departures, with Federico Valverde\u2014who suffered a concussion after a dispute with Aurelien Tchouameni\u2014among those mentioned. That altercation was the low point of an explosive dressing-room atmosphere that has dominated the media in recent weeks. According to Perez, however, all the players get on “splendidly”. “Occasional disagreements on the training pitch are par for the course at any club,” he added. “What does not exist, however, is the malicious intent behind this orchestrated campaign.”
\nPerez also insisted that he had identified the “mole” who had leaked dressing-room details to the media, though he refused to name names.\n<\/p>\n
He also played down talk of a star-studded squad rebelling against Xabi Alonso, or of his successor Alvaro Arbeloa struggling under the same pressure, insisting, “The coaches are in charge.” “I don’t know why I said at the end of my first term that I had miseducated the players. I have never spoken to a player. Not even Mbapp\u00e9, since he’s been here. When I see him in training, I just say hello.”\n<\/p>\n
Arbeloa’s future appears uncertain, with reports linking Jos\u00e9 Mourinho to the hot seat. Though Perez has declined to comment, he is known to back the Portuguese coach’s firm approach to managing big-name players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions within the Real Madrid squad have sparked recent rumours of departures, with Federico Valverde\u2014who suffered a concussion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[85,82,83,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-23185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-laliga","9":"tag-madrid","10":"tag-real-madrid","11":"tag-transfers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}