{"id":28508,"date":"2026-05-23T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/28508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:08:30","slug":"terrible-case-of-indigestion-barcelona-interim-president-pokes-fun-at-florentino-perez-and-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/28508\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terrible case of indigestion&#8217;: Barcelona interim president pokes fun at Florentino Perez and Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florentino Perez\u2019s explosive press conference days after Real Madrid\u2019s defeat in El Clasico had made headlines in FC Barcelona, but it never attracted any real attention from the club\u2019s top brass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Barcelona hierarchy has never shown too much concern about Perez\u2019s comments, often <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-interim-president-hits-back-at-florentino-perez-over-negreira-accusations-pathetic-and-full-of-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shoving them away as a tirade from a rival club\u2019s president<\/a>, whose team has not won a single major trophy in two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent interaction, Barcelona\u2019s interim president, Rafa Yuste, maintained a similar level of tone, even jokingly comparing Real Madrid\u2019s grievances to a bad case of indigestion.<\/p>\n<p>What Yuste said about Florentino<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fbl-esp-liga-barcelona-alves-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Rafa Yuste is close to becoming the CEO of Al Nassr.\" class=\"wp-image-118499\"  \/>Yuste believes Real Madrid are having a bad indigestion.(Photo by PAU BARRENA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking from Oslo, where he attended a UEFA dinner ahead of the Women\u2019s Champions League final, Yuste did not hold back in his assessment of the Real Madrid president\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFlorentino\u2019s words were pathetic. I stand by what Laporta said and would add that teams, big or small, have to know how to win and lose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat Real Madrid is showing is that they\u2019ve had a terrible case of indigestion for the last two years. We always respect our opponents,\u201d he said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/madrid-indigestion-brutal-anos-yuste-130564082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SPORT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yuste went on to add that Barcelona wouldn\u2019t have been so dominant as they are, even if they had truly bribed the referees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo win La Liga, you have to win practically all 38 games of the season, and you don\u2019t do that by bribing referees or matches, or with the Negreira case,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interim president accused Perez of using the Negreira case as a smokescreen to deflect attention from Real Madrid\u2019s second consecutive trophyless season.<\/p>\n<p>Yuste on Pep Guardiola\u2019s exit<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manchester-city-v-west-ham-united-premier-league-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola of Manchester City\" class=\"wp-image-188209\"  \/>Yuste heaped praise on Pep Guardiola. (Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yuste was also asked about Pep Guardiola\u2019s exit from Manchester City. He notably heaped praise on the Catalan for his contributions to football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPep is a Bar\u00e7a legend. Everything he has achieved is incredible. All I can do is thank him for what he has done for football,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s young, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll return to the sidelines, and we\u2019ll enjoy watching him. He\u2019s 100% a Bar\u00e7a fan and knows that Bar\u00e7a is his home. We have to thank him for what he has done for world football, Bar\u00e7a, and Catalonia,\u201d he concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florentino Perez\u2019s explosive press conference days after Real Madrid\u2019s defeat in El Clasico had made headlines in FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,222,223,1693,3187,83],"class_list":["post-28508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-florentino-perez","tag-rafa-yuste","tag-real-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508","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=28508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}