It’s been two months since the outbreak Barçagate, two months, and nobody here gives explanations… nor does anyone ask for them either. Yes, Real Madrid requests them, which obviously feels harmed and has taken part in the case, but the other forty First and Second Division clubs (he took out Barça, who was the one who paid the vice president of the referees for seventeen years, and Madrid, which cannot go beyond personification) are to see them come. It really is endearing to a certain extent to see how Espanyol, to give an example, criticize this performance of the VAR, that other one from that referee, a hand that was not whistled on a Sunday but the previous one was whistled… Let’s go see, my dears, that Barça has thrown away more than fifteen years paying the number two of the Technical Committee of Referees. That they have been kidding you. That you are worrying about a cold when what is being talked about here is a tumor. “It is that they have not drawn the line well…”, “it is that Roures has control of the images…”, “it is that he has one foot behind…”, “it is that he has an elbow in front…” . Let’s see: that, for 17 years, the Barcelona Football Club paid Enríquez Negreira while he acted as Victoriano Sánchez Arminio’s right-hand man.
There’s a huge elephant in the room, and it’s pink, and meanwhile you’re worrying who’s drawing the lines and whether or not the hand was on the ground or intercepting a dangerous play? Oh really? And the elephant? What do we do with it? Because, to all this, the animal will be pink or green but it continues shitting at a rate of 50 kilos a day. What do we do with all that fecal matter? What about Messi?… Little smoke screen. What about Valverde?… Smoke screen. What about Canales?… Smoke screen. What you have to deal with one day and another and another is Barçagate, which, as Ceferin rightly said, is the biggest soccer scandal in a long time.
Earlier I said that Barçagate blew up a bit before the NBA All-Star game was played, March has passed, we left Easter behind, the May bank holiday is near, Mother’s Day arrives, who else and who less She is already trying on last year’s swimsuits and here No Barcelona manager gives an explanation about why Negreira was paid, why Laporta cut off his tap, why he later rehired him, quadrupling his salary, why Negreirita accompanied the referees from the hotel to the Camp Nou, at what level was the conversation that came to be invoiced for ten thousand euros or what the hell does it mean that it was paid for neutrality. I still have the feeling that the SER released the news despite itself, that what my colleagues would have liked is that Madrid had also paid, that they negotiated with the club when and how to take out the scoop so that it would not be so destructive and that now, taking advantage of the fact that Spanish justice is slower than the bad horse, the media in general are already at their thing, which is the Golden Boot, the Silver Underpants and the Bronze Panties. For panties we are!
Hoy The Spanishwhich is one of the means of communication that resist the pull of utter indifference, publishes, under the signature of Jorge Calabrés, a piece of news that was intuited but is extremely serious. It was Dieter Brandau who, from the first minute of the game, realized that the relevance that Albert Soler had in all this framework, and… bingo! The headline of the Calabrés news item is as follows: “Soler hid from the Government that the police questioned him while he was negotiating the law that leaves Barça unpunished.” And he adds: “The sports director of the Superior Council declared on September 22, 2022 and covered up the investigation despite his government responsibility. He was key to approving a Sports Law that could end the statute of limitations in the case” . Soler, by the way, was director of Professional Sports at Barça from 2014 to 2021; He ceased to be an executive of Barça, he became an executive of the Government as Director General of Sports until 2023, he was interrogated by the Police about Barçagate, he hid it from the Secretary of State for Sport and negotiated a law tailored to the scandal … AND you are with that if the VAR, the stripe, the little foot, the little shoulder and the little hand? Oh really? What is a pink elephant!
They say the Spanish proverb that in April, thousand waters and explanation of Laporta. Hopefully that’s the case, but no matter how soon that press conference arrives, at least two months will have passed since, despite themselves, the SER from Barcelona discovered the cake. It is curious because most of the colleagues who have searched the biography of the referees to try to prove that they were helping Madrid, now that they are faced with the news that Barça has paid Negreira for 17 years they look away. But the side is what it is, it is the side of truth and it is the side of justice, which have been violated for too long. Messi? I hope he comes to Barça, I mean it. Valverde? You can’t attack anyone, but if they tell me what Fede assures Baena told him… well, I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. Channels?… I think they have it taken with him. That’s all very well, but the pink elephant is still in the room. Eat. Shit. Baby. And sleep. And if it does not reproduce, it is because there is no elephant… yet. How do you plan to make it disappear?
