Iker Casillas and Raul Gonzalez are two of the biggest legends in the history of Real Madrid. Or, at least, most of us thought so.
Long-time Real Madrid president, Florentino Perez obviously doesn't share the same opinion as he accused them of being frauds in leaked audio from 2006 first published by El Confidencial.
Iker Casillas spent most of his professional career at Real before leaving for Porto in 2015. In his 687 appearances for the Spanish club, he's kept an impressive 236 clean sheets. Yet, somehow, Perez said this about the Spain legend:
“Casillas is not a Real Madrid standard goalkeeper, what can I say? He's not and never has been. He has been a big failure of ours. The problem is people adore him, love him, talk to him, they defend him so much.
He then continued to bash Raul Gonzalez, a world-class striker that scored 324 goals in 741 appearances for Real Madrid.
“He [Casillas] is one of the biggest frauds and the other is Raul, the two biggest Real Madrid frauds are first Raul and second Casillas. The players are very selfish, you can't count on them for anything. If you do, you've made a mistake and they'll let you down, it's ridiculous. I have an awful view of the players.”
It's not the first time Perez finds himself in the middle of a controversy. After all, he was the main instigator in forming a football Super League earlier this year, and is, unlike other presidents of clubs that formed the failed league, yet to apologize or step away from the project.
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