Real Madrid presidential candidate Enrique Riquelme says he want to see Barcelona within the Segunda Division and would don’t have any downside with the Catalan membership disappearing altogether.
Riquelme will stand in opposition to Florentino Perez in Sunday’s elections and has been omnipresent on radio and TV in Spain this week as he builds his case for taking excessive job on the Santiago Bernabeu.
He has already introduced he would set up the membership’s former striker Raul as sporting director and claims to have a raft of big-name gamers lined up ought to he be victorious.
Speaking to Jordi Wild on the Wild Project, he additionally took goal at Madrid’s arch rivals from Camp Nou.
He mentioned: “I wish to see Barcelona within the Segunda [Division]. I might like to. I wouldn’t have any downside with that and I might be completely happy. And it’s not an absence of respect.
“I might additionally like Barcelona to vanish. I wouldn’t have any downside.
“Barcelona are a part of the historical past of soccer however I need Actual Madrid to win, and solely Madrid. What others do…”
I might not have helped Barcelona, insists Actual Madrid hopeful
When Barcelona had been going via their well-publicised monetary issues initially of the last decade, the membership brokered a cope with Key Capital that noticed them promote a share of their future TV earnings to Sixth Avenue.
Key Capital have shut hyperlinks to Perez and one of many firm’s companions Anas Laghrari is his right-hand man and reportedly a vastly influential determine behind the scenes on the capital membership.
Riquelme says he doesn’t perceive why anybody from Madrid would assist Barcelona and likewise made a reference to the continued Negreira case during which Barca made funds to Jose Maria Negreira, the previous vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees.
Barca deny any wrongdoing and demand they employed Negreira as an exterior guide to offer technical studies on refereeing.
Riquelme added: “I can guarantee you that not solely would I not have helped, however that I might not have reached out.
“It’s a wholesome competitors, however you probably have competed in a approach during which you have got used the cash to pay the vp of the referees…”
