🚨🇪🇸| Florentino Perez has issued a statement regarding Kylian Mbappe losing out on the Ballon d’or “I have been informed that Harry Kane has been awarded the Ballon d’Or ahead of Kylian Mbappé.” “I will speak carefully, because Real Madrid has always respected the institutions of football… even when those institutions appear determined to make themselves look ridiculous.” “Kylian Mbappé is a Real Madrid player. That alone should have been enough. But beyond the shirt, he is the most decisive footballer of his generation.” “He decides the most important matches of the season, in the most important competition, wearing the most important colours in the history of the game. That is not an opinion. That is a fact that even the voters, in their private moments, must recognise.” “And yet the Ballon d’Or has been given to a striker who scores goals in a league that was decided in November. A league where the second-best team spends the year trying not to finish too far behind. A league that, with all due respect, has never been the true measure of greatness in European football.” “We have seen these scenarios in before. The same voters who once preferred statistical comfort over actual hierarchy have done it again” “I will not criticise Harry Kane. He is a professional. He scores goals. He does what is asked of him at Bayern Munich, a club that wins its domestic title with the same inevitability that the sun rises. That is not the same as carrying the weight of Real Madrid on the biggest nights of the year….It never has been. It never will be.” “What disappoints me is not the player who received the award. What disappoints me is the message. That excellence is now negotiable. That performing at the highest level, week after week, in the Champions League, for the greatest club in the world, can be ranked below domestic efficiency in a competition of reduced intensity.” “If that is the new standard, then the Ballon d’Or has chosen to become a different trophy. A quieter one. A safer one.” “Real Madrid does not need the validation of any individual award. Our history is written in European Cups, not in ceremonies. But we will always defend the idea that the best player should be recognised as the best player. And this year, that player wears white.” “The voters have made their decision. History will make its own.”