Rafael Benitez has all our support – Real Madrid

Perez was speaking at a hastily arranged media conference on Monday to give his backing to coach Rafael Benitez in the aftermath of the chastening 4-0 Clasico defeat to Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.

Real are now third in La Liga, two points behind second-placed Atletico Madrid and six behind leaders Barcelona.

At the press conference, Perez admitted that though the club’s board were concerned about the humiliating nature of the defeat, they still believe that Rafa Benitez is the right man for the job. “Rafa Benitez has just started his work”.

“I can’t tell you what will happen in the future but what I can tell you is that we did not discuss the possibility of holding new elections for even one minute”, Perez said.

On Saturday I watched the Clasico and I was thinking: Cristiano Ronaldo, Steven Gerrard, John Terry and Paolo Cannavaro – all players with a strong character who never got on with that one (Benitez)’.

Carlo Ancelotti says his successor Rafael Benitez deserves patience at Real Madrid but stated that he would be open to re-joining the Spanish giants.

Perez also dismissed reports star forward Cristiano Ronaldo was seeking to leave Madrid amid an alleged poor relationship with his coach, the president claiming the rumors are “an attempt to destabilize the club”.

“Why hasn’t he said drastically, actually we want Rafa Benitez to stay for the three years of his contract – he hasn’t said any of that as no one knows what will happen six months down the line”. I’m the coach of Castilla and Benitez is in charge of the first team.

Real will now lock horns with Eibar on November 29. “Things are fine at the moment”, insisted Zidane.

Seedorf, who played more than 100 games for Madrid, also spent a large portion of his career under Ancelotti at Milan, and told Cadena COPE that Los Blancos may have erred in changing the trainer. The thing I’m concerned about the most is recovering the team’s spirit.

“From this point onwards I am not going to allow people to keep lying in order to destabilise the club”.

“There are two things about that game – our performance on the day and the fact that they had a doped player”.