If there’s one thing we can take from the Spanish press on Wednesday, it’s that they haven’t taken the Karius/concussion news well at all.
Sergio Ramos, who’s being blamed for it all, made his personal views on the matter rather clear with some highly sarcastic comments, and now it’s the club’s turn, via Marca, to unofficially have their say.
The Spanish outlet believe the 13-times Champions League winners have ‘coexisted as best they can in what they consider to be a campaign to discredit the impressive successes of recent years’, with the ‘Karius case and his concussion during the final being the final straw’.
Within the La Liga side, they believe the report released a couple of days ago by the Boston hospital regarding the German goalkeeper is purely an ‘image clean-up’, and they somehow understand it is something that ‘isn’t even medically accurate’.
At this point, Real Madrid are said to be astonished and ‘don’t know what will come in the next episode of this film’ that has followed the club since the final in Kiev.
Marca explain the La Liga giants are ‘really upset’ by the whole thing, unhappy to be see their image once again tarnished by ‘an issue that should only affect Karius and Liverpool’.
The newspaper spoke to someone within the club, who said: “Their image agency must be phenomenal. They deserve a 10 in this image campaign. It’s amazing.”
Marca aren’t the only one having a dig, with AS also wading in on the situation, but their approach is a tad different, looking at all the interconnecting links between Liverpool, FSG, Massachusetts General Hospital, John Henry and Tom Werner.
After coming to the conclusion this move was mostly financial, with MGH receiving money from Boston Red Sox Foundation, AS explain the ‘doubt about the examination is still latent’, as Lorius Karius clearly never ‘commented to his medical team during the game’ about his impaired vision.
It was only days later that he ‘revealed the symptoms of a concussion, for which the doctors of Massachusetts determined that his performance was affected by the blow, but without a history of being evaluated during the confrontation’.
To turn a long story into a short one, to say Spain (or at least the Real Madrid leaning media) doesn’t believe the concussion angle one bit, at this point, would be an understatement.
