When Florentino Pérez Dictated Real Madrid's Controversial Note Against the Referees he was aware that he would get something in return.
Florentino Pérez is drawn to revolutions and coups. He has tried, unsuccessfully, with UEFA and his unborn Super League project. And now also in Spanish soccer.
Florentino Wants to Establish a New Order: His Own
He wants to dismantle everything to establish a new order. His own. He doesn't do it individually, but he claims the right to exercise his divine mission, which involves saving soccer.
In his note, he demanded the dismissal of Medina Cantalejo as president of the Technical Committee of Referees, and Clos Gómez as president of VAR. Undiano Mallenco, Lesma López, and Yuste Jiménez also came out scalded.
And any referee who might have had any kind of relationship with Negreira. The case of Yolanda Parga as a referee examiner, with a white salary at home, is another matter.
The point is that a person as influential in Spanish society as Florentino Pérez has called for a revolution and something must be given to him.
Medina Cantalejo and Clos Gómez Are Doomed. They are the first two heads that the Madridist president of the Federation, Rafael Louzán, will cut to keep the white president happy.
Penalty in Favor of Madrid: James's Push on Modric
More will come later. And there will be appointments that please Florentino Pérez. The most important, the presidency of the Committee of Referees.
Everything is dangerously set up for the choice to fall on Mateu Lahoz, very much to the liking of the white president.
It couldn't be any other way. He is the same referee who in the 2016-17 season awarded a penalty against Sevilla for James's push...on Modric!
Bochornoso, James empuja a Modric y Mateu Lahoz pita penalti.
How could Florentino Pérez not like him, when the 10 penalties in favor that Real Madrid has already collected seem too few to him?
Mateu Lahoz Snatched the 2013-14 League from Barça
He is also the same referee who snatched a League from Barça in the 2013-14 season. The team then led by Tata Martino needed to win at Camp Nou on the last day to be champion.
And Mateu Lahoz made sure to prevent it. With a 1-1 score, he invented an offside to disallow a goal by Messi. The ball came from an opponent, Juanfran, which enabled the Barcelona number 10.
Years later, Elvio Paolorroso, a member of Gerardo Martino's technical staff, confessed that Mateu Lahoz apologized for that goal.
But the truth is that in 2019 Mateu Lahoz was asked about that play. And he dodged the issue: "To this day, there are still no clear images that the ball only hit Juanfran"
EL GOL QUE COSTO UNA LIGA ANULADO A LEO MESSI
He Continues Acting as a Madridist and Anti-Barcelonista on COPE and Movistar
Mateu Lahoz was invited to leave refereeing due to an evident decline in his performances. And after a World Cup in Qatar where he made headlines in a Netherlands-Argentina match that left no one satisfied.
Lately, he acts as a referee analyst, criticizing his former colleagues from COPE and Movistar.
There, he handles the microphone as he once did with the whistle, and practices the subtle art of preaching his Madridism. And his anti-Barcelonismo, trying not to make it obvious. But it is noticeable.
With Mateu Lahoz at the helm of the referees, it will have been worth it for Florentino Pérez all the fuss he has organized to get the referees on his side.