With the Champions League final on the horizon, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool have endless media commitments, and interviews are subsequently popping up everywhere.
On Thursday it was Mauricio Pochettino’s turn to speak to the media, and he provided an awful lot of quotes. He praised Real Madrid strongly, but made clear he has no regrets he didn’t move to the club last summer.
The Spurs boss also spoke about a desire to get a renewal sorted out for Christian Eriksen, and praised Gareth Bale, without insinuating there’s transfer interest from the Premier League club.
Pochettino made some comments about using Real Madrid’s training base ahead of the final, and said Tottenham had also asked if they could stay in accommodation at the training centre… saying Madrid refused.
This hasn’t gone down very well at the Spanish club, who have issued a statement saying those claims are simply untrue.
Real Madrid CF wants to make it clear that it is outright false that this request was produced. Our club has always shown its absolute availability to meet all the requests made by UEFA, the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Club Atlético de Madrid, Liverpool FC and Tottenham Hotspur.
All requests submitted to Real Madrid have referred only and exclusively to the use of the training camps of the Ciudad Real Madrid and its changing rooms. And all of them have been granted by our club.
Therefore, Liverpool plans to train in our facilities on Saturday, June 1 in the morning. Tottenham, for its part, will do so on Thursday, May 30 and Friday, May 31.
Real Madrid CF also wants to emphasise that the accommodation of the finalist teams of the Champions League are assigned by UEFA following criteria of organisation and security. And that at no time has our club been requested that these teams could be accommodated in the facilities of Ciudad Real Madrid.’
