An Open Letter to Real Madrid Fans

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The trophy you still see as your competition, the cup format European prize, would end up being replaced and discarded by Perez’s Super League format, meaning the end of the European Cup you crave every year.

Fans of the "big twenty" would be asked to pay astronomical fees to attend matches across Europe, with all the travel expenses and hotel bookings on top. Watching football would no longer be a right for the fan. It would be a luxury costing as much as a holiday, and in the current climate, few will be able to fly out to watch their team.

Records like nine European Cups, 31 league titles and 17 Copa del Reys would cease to hold any meaning, and all of Real’s glory days would be disregarded, having come in abandoned competitions and forgotten domestic systems.

The great rivalries between clubs like Liverpool and Everton, Arsenal and Tottenham, Barcelona and Espanyol, and Real and Atletico would no longer be played out.

All the integrity of football, and all the reasons we watch it and care, will dissolve under the plans of your president.

In the end, I suppose it was never Real Madrid that I disliked growing up. It was the moneymen that took a mighty, integral club and cynically did their best to exploit its name and turn it in to a cash-cow brand.

The men like Perez who believe that football exists to be a marketing vessel for themselves and their own gain and amusement.

Men who don’t believe in football, and the power it can hold over entire countries and peoples, other than to exploit that power and make more money. Men who look at Kaka and Ronaldo and see shirt sales instead of heroes.

Perhaps I’m an idealist. Perhaps I’m a dying breed in football. Maybe I’m fighting for something that’s already dead. But even if I am, I’d rather stand against ideas like the European Super League, and I appeal to you all to do likewise.

For the sake of football, and for the sake of Real Madrid.

Perez is the enemy. His plans will kill your country’s football competitions, as well as your club, and you don’t have to stand for that.

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