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#3 "Del Bosque doesn't know how to coach and knows nothing about tactics. He's the biggest fraud I've ever seen in my life." (2006)
Vicente del Bosque is one of the most successful managers in the recent history of Real Madrid.
The 70-year-old, who also led Spain to a FIFA World Cup and European Championship title. He managed Real Madrid in the early 2000s, when Galacticos like Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo Nazario and Beckham played for the club.
Despite Del Bosque leading the club to league and continental success, Florentino Perez alleged that the tactician knew 'nothing about tactics'. As if that was not enough, Perez added that Del Bosque was the 'biggest fraud' he has ever met.
Perez also said that no one offered Del Bosque a (managerial) job because of the latter's questionable credentials. Interestingly, the comments came in the midst of Del Bosque's eight-year stint in charge of Spain, where he led La Furia Roja to their maiden FIFA World Cup title followed by a successful title defence at Euro 2012.
#2 "(Iker) Casillas has been a great failure we’ve had….Well, one of the great scams, and the second one is Raúl. The two great Madrid scams.” (2006)
Raul and Iker Casillas are two of the greatest players to have played for Real Madrid.
While Raul made over 700 appearances and scored ov300 goals for the club in an almost two-decade-long career, Casillas was another distinguished performer for Real Madrid.
Casillas, who is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the sport, played over 700 games for the club and won multiple league and Champions League titles.
However, Florentino Perez belittled the exploits of both legends and called them the two biggest 'scams' in the history of Real Madrid. He said that Casillas was not a goalkeeper for Real Madrid and was a big 'failure'.
In another leaked recording about Casillas, who captained Spain to multiple European Championship triumphs on either side of winning the FIFA World Cup, Perez said that:
"Casillas isn't tall, and he can't even see well. They shoot from outside the box, from corners."
#1 "Cristiano (Ronaldo) is mad. That guy is an idiot." (2012)
Cristiano Ronaldo is easily one of the greatest - if not the greatest - players to have ever played for Real Madrid.
In a hugely successful nine-season stint with the Spanish giants, Ronaldo scored 450 goals in all competitions at better than a goal per game, leaving the club's second-highest goalscorer (Raul) a distant second.
The Portuguese tallied an unbelievable 50 goals per season for the club during his nine-season stay and was a key reason why Madrid won the Champions League three-peat in 2018. However, Florentino Perez did not even spare Ronaldo, calling the Portugal captain 'mad', 'idiot' and 'abnormal'.
The comment was apparently made when Ronaldo scored 46 league goals to inspire Real Madrid to the 2011-12 La Liga title. That made the then Los Blancos striker the first in Spanish top-flight history to register consecutive 40-goal campaigns.
Three years after leaving Real Madrid in 2018, a 36-year-old Ronaldo became the first Juventus player to score 100 goals for the Italian giants in their first three seasons at the club.
