BarcelonaThe Mossos d’Esquadra see indications that the former director general of Barça, Òscar Grau, and the former head of legal services, Román Gómez Ponti, leaked the contracts of Lionel Messi and Gerard Piqué to the press, according to Cadena SER . A report by the Mossos, which has been delivered to the Barcelona court investigating Barçagate, includes several emails that indicate that Gómez Ponti and Grau, with the knowledge of the club’s then president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, “wanted and intended” to leak the contracts of Leo Messi and Gerard Piqué that he published The world.
The authorities, who searched the homes of those accused of Barçagate and the offices of Barça, confiscated several electronic devices. Little by little, the information they contain has been analyzed and now the Mossos see signs, due to several conversations between the two managers who were part of Josep Maria Bartomeu’s board, that they intended the data to be made public of the players’ contracts. The leak would amount to a crime of revealing secrets, which is not investigated in the context of Barçagate.
“Hormone Dwarf” and “Sewer Rat”
The intercepted messages on mobile phones reveal Gómez Ponti’s malice towards Messi, whom he describes as a “sewer rat” and a “hormonal dwarf”. They are examples of a long email – which he has reproduced The newspaper– from Gómez Ponti to Bartomeu, with a copy to Òscar Grau, the CEO of the entity, in which he proposes “radical measures” to reduce the first team’s wage bill such as the dismissal of players. And he adds that “it would also not be a bad idea to publish the millionaire contracts of the first team so that people can publicly repudiate them”.
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