Florentino Perez will not attend RFEF board meeting in protest LaLiga Santander Real Madrid president angry at VAR

The upcoming Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) board meeting scheduled for Monday 28 January will reveal the true extent of the rift between the governing body and Real Madrid.

RFEF president Luis Rubiales has called a meeting, the first since he named Florentino Perez, Enrique Cerezo, Ronaldo Nazario, David Aganzo and Josep Maria Bartomeu as part of the federation's board.

La decisión del VAR que indignó al Madrid

Since then, no meeting has been held and Monday was going to be the first with everyone at the federation's headquarters.

However, it will have to wait as the Real Madrid president will refuse to attend.

El VAR no vio falta de Luis Suárez

Real Madrid initially accepted the proposal of Rubiales but, in recent weeks, the club's leaders have considered themselves punished and persecuted by some of the refereeing decisions.

Los Blancos feel as though the refereeing in LaLiga Santander has not changed and that they are not treated in the same way as others, especially Barcelona.

Their complaints point towards Clos Gmez, the former referee responsible for the development of the VAR project who has never been liked in the Real Madrid camp.

The European champions are bitter about the play between Vinicius and Real Sociedad goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli, where a penalty was not awarded to the Brazilian, and the incident that saw Luis Suarez score against Leganes following an apparent foul on Ivan Cuellar not ruled out.

Madrid's spat with Spanish football's top institutions. While there is at least dialogue with Rubiales, there is no such pleasantries with Javier Tebas, demonstrated this week when LaLiga Santander's president questioned Perez's protest against the referees.

The leading figures at the Bernabeu believe they can live on the edge with the two entities of Spanish football, claiming that they have been doing so for many years and that the fight does not end on the field of play.

Their relationship with the RFEF had improved, recovering the dialogue that had been lost after the Julen Lopetegui episode.

Two weeks after Perez's phone call to Rubiales, there is still communication between Real Madrid and the federation, but the refereeing issue has heated up again.

In any case, on a personal and professional level, it seems that there is a better relationship with the RFEF than with LaLiga Santander.