Florentino Perez called Cristiano Ronaldo an "imbecile" and Jose Mourinho "abnormal" while he also said the two had "huge egos" in two audio recordings from 2012 that were leaked on Wednesday.

"He is mad," Perez had said of Ronaldo in one of the audios released by El Confidencial. "This chap is an imbecile, he is ill.

"Do you think this chap is normal? He is not normal, otherwise he wouldn't do the things he does. The last foolish thing he did, everyone around the world saw it.

"Why do you think he does that foolish thing?"