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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez doesn't like Argentines, the father of former Madrid forward Gonzalo Higuaín has claimed.

Jorge Higuaín, who represents his son, is convinced that there was a racial motive for the treatment of his son before he left the Bernabeu, and pointed to the departures of many of his compatriots in a bizarre rant.

“Gonzalo Higuain left Real Madrid because the president, Florentino Perez, doesn’t like Argentines," he told an Argentine newspaper.

"This is why [Fernando] Redondo, [Esteban] Cambiasso, [Santiago] Solari, [Fernando] Gago and Angel Di Maria all left."

Sporting director Jorge Valdano, another Argentine, has also left the club since Perez returned in 2009 but the president has signed Argentines Angel Di Maria and Walter Samuel in his time at the club.

Higuaín junior was shuffled out of the door and flogged to Napoli in 2013. But Jorge is still seething about how his son was sold by the Spanish giants.

(Image: REUTERS/Ciro De Luca)

“The president never attacks you from in front, he doesn’t face up.

“He has all the press bought and the directors too; that’s why they sacked Carlo Ancelotti. It’s how he operates."

Jorge Higuaín is busy negotiating a move away from Naples for Gonzalo after Napoli failed to qualify for the Champions League. Club president Aurelio De Laurentiis is reluctant to sell to Serie A rivals Roma, who remain most keen on doing business for the Argentina forward.

The 27-year-old will start in place of the injured Sergio Aguero for tonight's Copa America clash with Jamaica.