Real Madrid are in chaos after Ramón Calderón bowed to pressure and announced that he had resigned as the club's president after reports that he had rigged the recent general assembly came out.

Marca revealed that a number of non-members were at the meeting to vote through proposals and the scandal has now claimed the man at the top and others look set to follow.

Having denied the allegations earlier in the week, Calderón was cornered by photographic evidence of the vote rigging and put under pressure to go by his fellow directors.

On Thursday evening it was believed that he had told friends and associates that he would resign before reports emerged that he had changed his mind and would hold out to hold elections in the summer.

That is said to have infuriated some directors and many were considering resigning themselves at a board meeting on Friday morning unless Calderón himself told them that he was going.

Despite winning back-to-back league titles in his two full seasons at the helm, the 57-year-old's tenure has been plagued by problems including the manner in which he won the presidency.

Postal votes were not counted and have not been so and that allied with his failed pre-election promises to sign Kakŕ and Cesc Fŕbregas has angered some supporters.

A verbal attack on David Beckham was also not well taken after the England international's decision to join the LA Galaxy and more recently Calderón has been exposed when a former club secretary revealed several embarrassing stories.

Elections at Real Madrid will be planned, but may not take place until after the end of the season with an interim leader, Vicente Boluda, the club's vice president, being installed until then.

Calderón is due to hold a press conference explaining his decision to stand down at 18:00 CET.

Lucas Brown, Goal.com

 

Very interesting news. I wonder how this will affect the Ronaldo move this summer?

 

Tough sh*t once again

 

Fergie is probably telling Ronaldo right now, "SEEEE???? I told you so..."

Real has become a graveyard for talent. Since Zizou, the big stars that go there become also-rans. They should have never fired Del Bosque - that was the beginning of the end.

 

Real Madrid has become the headquarters for the lack of stability and an example of the chaos in the past few years, had four heads of the club to step down under pressure over the last 14 years.
You can hardly memories the name of a coach until they decide to change it,
All this chaos is good news for Barcelona, although I prefer that we win an organized team but this will rarely be the case for real Madrid.

Forca barca

 

Arabs should buy this club

 

what's it with you an Arabs buying clubs????

 

 

It's a phase. You can't ignore it! It's constatntly in the news...

Arabs pay ridiculous to bring in Kaka, Israel bombs Gaza, Prince Harry calls indian a paki!

It will go away soon, no worries!