Real Madrid have called for the "immediate resignation" of La Liga president Javier Tebas after he compared the club's management and its in-house television channel to the propaganda methods of Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels.
Tebas wrote in a lengthy post on X that Real Madrid's management "directs an orchestra of mouthpieces" and that its communication "recalls propaganda mechanisms exploited by Goebbels", citing systematic repetition, the construction of an enemy, and the subordination of facts to the narrative. He later said he was referring to "those propaganda techniques" and "not an ideology".
The club called the statement "deeply offensive" and "morally repugnant", rejecting the clarification as not mitigating the "institutionally unworthy nature of his statements". Real Madrid also demanded that Tebas step down both as head of the Spanish top flight and as vice-president of the Spanish Football Association (RFEF), describing the comparison as "absolutely intolerable and extraordinarily serious".
The dispute is the latest in a long-running feud. Last month Tebas criticised Real Madrid for claiming a refereeing conspiracy against the club. He has also been critical of the club and its president Florentino Perez in previous years, including over the 2021 European Super League plans and, in 2025, after Real said he had "lost their head" following a formal complaint to the Spanish FA about officiating.
Source: BBC Sport Football · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing