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MADRID (Reuters) Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti defended his club on Saturday following criticism from UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin this week.

Ceferin has told German publication Der Spiegel that he would not mind if Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus, the three remaining clubs in the escaped Super League project, are not part of UEFA.

He also slammed Real president Florentino Perez for claiming European football clubs were in dire financial straits, before being linked with a € 180million ($ 212.65million) bid. for Paris St Germain striker Kylian Mbappe.

I thought it was a little strange that an organization as big as UEFA was talking about the president of a 13-time Champions League winner like that, Ancelotti said at a press conference.

If the president of a 13-time Champions League winning club is incompetent, what does it do to everyone else?

Ancelotti also said that the clubs’ South American contingent, which only returned to Spanish soil on Friday, would be available for selection against Celta Vigo on Sunday despite playing in CONMEBOL’s extended international window.

They came back yesterday (Friday) and practiced a bit. They will have no problem playing, he said.

I’ll talk to them, and if any of them are tired they won’t play, but it looks like they didn’t have any issues and the trip didn’t take them over either.

Ancelotti will be without Toni Kroos (pubis) and Dani Ceballos (ankle) for the LaLiga clash, while Ferland Mendy is unlikely to feature as he recovers from a shin problem.

Luka Modric and Nacho Fernandez will however be in good shape for the visit to the Galician side.

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(Reporting by Joseph Walker; Editing by Christian Radnedge)

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