The incendiary tweet by Miquel Camps, spokesman for the board of directors of FC Barcelona, last Tuesday in which he attacked Vinícius Jr continues to cause a stir. The public criticism of the Blaugrana manager has not gone down well with Real Madrid and Florentino Pérez has decided not to travel to Barcelona this weekend.
According to the Madrid press, the president of Real Madrid had planned to go to the Catalan capital this Saturday, as is usual in all classics, and witness the match in the box of the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, together with Joan Laporta, but he wanted an answer more forceful on the part of the club towards its director.
FC Barcelona did apologize yesterday through vice president Rafa Yuste who, in statements to Movistar, said that "If Vinícius Jr is listening to me: the thing about Mikel Camps is an UNFORTUNATE tweet and it will NOT be repeated again," he said. .
Something that has not been enough and in the face of the crisis unleashed by Camps' tweet, the white leader has backed down and will stay in Madrid, aggravating the institutional conflict between two clubs that are not experiencing their best moment since the Negreira case exploded.
With a large part of the white fans more in favor of following the example of Sevilla, who refused to share a box with Laporta, Miquel Camps' tweet has been the last straw and the subsequent institutional silence of the Blaugrana club has complicated even more.
Last Tuesday, when Real Madrid faced Braga in the Champions League, Camps published an incendiary comment against Vinícius Jr's attitude, which was recreated in a series of unnecessary bicycles against the rival. "It's not racism, he deserves a slap for being a clown and a lazy person, what do these unnecessary and meaningless bicycles represent in the center of the field," he published on his profile on the social network 'X', formerly known as Twitter.
Miquel Camps, given the virality of his publication, decided to delete it minutes later, but this did not prevent it from being seen by thousands of people, including the players themselves. Rodrygo came out in defense of his teammate in the mixed zone of the National Stadium in Braga, describing the events as “regrettable”: "I don't even know if I can talk about it because the club always advises us not to talk, but it's unfortunate, there's no a lot to say, very ugly," declared the white player.
