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Perez claims football is sick

Real Madrid held their AGM on Sunday morning with club president Florentino Perez taking the opportunity to complain about his view on the state of the game.

One of Perez’s primary arguments for the concept was to allow Europe’s elite to play one another more often, though Madrid did face Inter, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool on their way to winning the Champions League last season.

“To fix a problem, you have to first recognise that you have a problem,” Perez said at the club’s AGM on Sunday. “Our sport is sick. It is losing its leadership as a global sport.

“In tennis, Nadal and Federer have played 40 times in 15 years. Nadal and Djokovic have played 59 matches in 16 years,” Perez added.

“In football, we’ve only played Liverpool nine times in 67 years. We’ve played Chelsea four times in the history of the European Cup. What sense does it make to deprive fans of all these games?”

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