Bring a Madrid fan is a trade off. In return for going around and boasting about 14 Champions Leagues, you have to leave reality at the door and enter a deep state of delusion in order to cover up the unsavoury aspects of the club, despite them being clear and obvious to anybody else that reads about them.
This involves intentionally saying things which you know yourself are barely believable, whilst trying to convince others of the same.
It's just a remarkably strange coincidence that everyone that has ever written anything negative about Madrid (we are told) has some weird anti Madrid vendetta, even if it's some English journalist who really couldn't give two shits about La Liga either way.
Is it worth the trade off for me?
No fucking chance. Not even close.