MORE CLUBS INVOLVED?
As ‘El Mundo’ advances, the environment of Bartomeu y Rosell ensures that more First and Second Division clubs made periodic payments to Negreira. In this case, FC Barcelona would not be the only club that would have made payments to the former vice-president of the Referees Committee. The same source indicates that “they are only acting against the azulgrana entity for conduct that, they maintain without providing evidence, is widespread in Spanish football”.
NEW INFORMATION ABOUT PAYMENTS
The plot of payments to Enríquez Negreira continues to provide new information about the case. According to ‘El Confidencial’, Barça would have used up to seven companies to pay Negreira. According to the information, the seven companies that collected the seven million euros that Barça paid Negreira They were discovered when analyzing Barça’s accounting movements. Four of the companies had already transcended previously.
ENRIC MASIP DEFENDS BARÇA
Enrique Masipadviser to the club’s presidency, has come out in defense of the entity’s ‘honorability’ and has warned that ‘we are going to defend ourselves to the last consequences’. “Barça hasn’t done anything wrong and has never benefited from anyone to ever win anything”added Masip, who is very clear that “we have never done anything wrong to win a title or a game”.
RAMÓN CALDERÓN SPEAKS
Ramón Calderón, former president of Real Madrid, has given his opinion on the ‘The Negreira Case’ and he has lent a cable to Barça. “Because of my status as a lawyer, I don’t like parallel trials. I don’t want to go into disquisitions, I don’t know the situation”, he expressed in front of the media. Calderón wanted to ask for “calm” and respect at all times the presumption of innocence until the whole truth about the case is known.
It didn’t stop there. “If you want to do it, you go with black money, it’s easier than going to a vice president. It doesn’t make sense. From there we are used to conspiracies”Piqué explained, always with an ironic tone and meaning that sometimes Barça is the victim of smear campaigns in the media.
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PIQUÉ TALKS ABOUT THE ‘NEGREIRA CASE’
Gerard Piqué has spoken about the ‘Negreira Case’ in his interview in ‘El Món a RAC 1’. The ex-azulgrana wanted to ignore the controversy and clarify that in his stage as a footballer he had nothing to do with it. “We didn’t know anything. I haven’t met Negreira or his son. I put my hand in fire for Barça: no referees have been bought”he clarified.
THE ANSWER OF ERNESTO VALVERDE
ernesto valverde, coach of FC Barcelona before returning to Athletic Club, has been summoned to testify together with Luis Enrique for the ‘Negreira Case’. The Basque coach was asked if “that Barça had been given the League” during the season 2017-18to which he responded elegantly and forcefully: “We won the League with 14 points over the second and we won the Cup 5-0 in the final against Sevilla. I don’t think there was much discussion about who was the best team that season”said.
THE LAST TIME OF THE CASE
New information about the ‘Negreira Case’ continues to appear. As ‘El Larguero’ advances, Laporta’s first Barça board of directors was already aware of the payments to Negreira. The directive of the current president in its first stage in 2003 it had Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeuwho according to the information published by ‘El Mundo’ inherited it from the previous stage with Gaspart and paid ‘in self-defense’.
“WE PAY IN SELF DEFENSE”
The information published by the newspaper ‘El Mundo’ about the ‘Enríquez Negreira case‘ and that it will open its sports section in this Tuesday’s edition is very significant and refers to private conversations held with the former presidents of the FC Barcelona, Joseph Maria Bartomeu y Sandro Rosellin reference to the payments made to the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees.
Javier Tebas: “I don’t know if the position taken by the president of Barça is adequate. I don’t remember a time of such institutional crisis. Not only is Barcelona’s reputation at risk, but also that of the competition”.
The maximum representative of LaLiga, Javier Tebashas been conclusive after the latest information on the ‘Negreira case’ for the microphones of #Let’s go: “I feel ashamed. For now there is no explanation”.
LAPORTA, CLEAR AND FORCENT IN AN ACT WITH THE CAPTAINS OF THE CLUB
The president of FC Barcelona, John Laportahas not hidden when it comes to going on the attack in relation to the ‘Negreira case’ in an act together with the captains of the club: “I really want to face all the scoundrels that are staining our shield“.
THE JUDGE ASKS TO INVESTIGATE THE PAYMENTS OF THE RFEF TO THE SON OF NEGRERIA
The National audience investigate the payments made by the RFEF for coaching services to Javier Enriquezson of the former vice president of CTA, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira during the presidency of Angel Maria Villar. This is stated in an order of March 13 signed by magistrate Alejandro Abascal, to which EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group, has had access, which in tune with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has commissioned the General State Intervention (IGAE) to analyze these payments, for at least 4,400 euros, made between 2011 and 2016.
NEW REQUEST FROM THE PROSECUTOR
The former Spanish coach, Luis Enriqueand the current Athletic Club coach, ernesto valverde, both at the head of the Barça bench at different stages, should testify in relation to the ‘Negreira case’, according to El País. You can expand the information HERE.
