Barcelona is going on the offensive and will sentence 15 journalists for the Negreira case

He Barcelona turns to attack case Negreira with an offensive against the press through fifteen reports against journalists and the media. Barcelona club continues without explanation to pay more than 7.5 million over almost two decades to the former vice president Technical committee of judges (CTA), but has decided to launch a kind of witch hunt against journalists, which serves as a warning to navigators that can be published from now on.

The club has already reported five informants whom it believes have slandered the club, and plans to report a dozen more in the coming days. They did not surpass the media or the names. In addition, the entity invites members to take a proactive attitude and will make available to them e-mail so that they can send information that they see in the press or on social networks that they think spoils the image of the entity. Joan Laporta, the president of the Barcelona entity, had already warned him a few days ago. “I feel like I’m fighting all the scoundrels that are defiling our shield,” he said.

Laporta has not yet come out to give his version of why the last four presidents of the club tolerated millions of payments in amounts Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira. But with his offensive against journalists, he is already warning that he will not allow even the slightest suggestion that the entity bought judges in order to exploit sports. According to the summary of the case, the club hired Negreira and gave him five tasks, regardless of applications: to have an interlocutor in the Federation and HTA to take care of institutional relations; make sure that the Competition Commission, responsible for sanctions, is not composed only of referees from Madrid; report on any institutional visit by the Federation or HTS and report on differences between the League and the Federation. Negreira told the treasury that the ultimate goal of the payments was for the referees not to go against Barça, for everything to be “neutral”. “I have never paid any referee or former referee with what I got from Barcelona,” he told the IRS, which has no evidence to prove that Barça bought referees or that more than the seven million he paid Enríquez Negreira when he was vice president HAT served to influence the results of the parties. However, the Ministry of Finance highlights the fact that Negreira did not increase his assets despite his large income.

To date, the only version Laporta has given has been victimist. “I will have time to explain who, why and how they want to orchestrate this campaign,” he said. The Negreira case is presented as an orchestrated campaign, both internally, within Barcelona, ​​and externally, from Madrid, which seeks to destabilize the club with the ultimate goal of sinking it so that it eventually becomes a joint-stock company.