Florentino Perez 'studying' possibility of Real Madrid joining Premier League

Real Madrid have denied they are looking into the possibility of leaving La Liga, with Florentino Perez keen to join the Premier League.

Los Blancos are at the centre of a growing row with Spanish top-flight bosses as they plan to sell a 10 per cent share of the league to equity firm CVC Capital Partners.

The deal will provide a welcome cash boost in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic but Real Madrid and Barcelona have both vehemently rejected proposals.

Clubs will vote on the deal on Thursday, but Madrid have already said they will take legal action against La Liga president Javier Tebas and CVC in order to stop the deal.

Florentino Perez has been looking at the viability of leaving the Spanish top-flight

Madrid claim they weren't consulted about the negotiations and said in a statement that they "cannot support a venture which hands the future of 42 Primera and Segunda División clubs over to a group of investors, not to mention the futures of those clubs who qualify over the next 50 year".

And now according to Mundo Deportivo, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is looking at the possibility of abandoning La Liga and joining another European top-flight.

They state that bosses at the Bernabeu have been studying for weeks about the potential to leave the league they are in, with the Premier League Perez's preferred destination.

As well as the disagreement over the CVC deal, Perez is also said to be fuming after Tebas voiced his clear opposition to the doomed European Super League.

Perez reportedly feels mistreated by Tebas thanks to a number of dealings over the years.

Perez feels he has been mistreated by La Liga boss Javier Tebas ( Image:

DAVID FERNANDEZ/EPA-EFE/REX)

It adds that the club also looked at the possibility of joining Serie A or the Bundesliga, Real Madrid chiefs feel the English top-flight is the competition that would suit them best due to the power of clubs, their enormous projection and the huge money available via TV rights.

The report does add that Brexit would likely make any negotiations about a non-British club joining the Premier League very difficult, but they hope that an exception can be made for one of the biggest teams on the planet.

Real Madrid have strongly denied the claims, releasing a statement which reads: "Given the information published today by the newspaper Mundo Deportivo, in which it says that our club studied going from LaLiga to the Premier, Real Madrid wants to make it clear that it is completely false, as well as absurd and impossible and that it only intends to disturb once more the day to day of our club.."

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