Official: FC Barcelona charged with Corruption over payments to former referees chief | UEFA open investigation

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What I am saying is that there is no evidence that this money has been used to buy arbitration favors
Then why do you think Barca paid the money to the ref head which wasn't even legally mentioned in the expenses?
 

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Don't make any more excuses and blah blah blah. Prove me wrong with videos, photos and links. Yes, you are all telling me everything, calling everything, but I am the only one who provides evidence.
Don't confuse your links and opinions on what those links mean with actual evidence. The only evidence anyone needs right now is this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64918604

Barcelona face corruption charges over payments to former referees' official
I expect you'll appreciate that the writing is bolded. Makes it more official.
 

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Then why do you think Barca paid the money to the ref head which wasn't even legally mentioned in the expenses?
From my own experience with Inter and Milan words from Calciopoli trials :wenger: I am giving the answer you need: to prevent Juventus/Madrid gaining unfair advantage themselves.
 

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Don't confuse your links and opinions on what those links mean with actual evidence. The only evidence anyone needs right now is this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64918604



I expect you'll appreciate that the writing is bolded. Makes it more official.
Yeah, but that doesn't count. BBC not only is controlled by Florentino they are also worshippers of Franco
 

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Yeah, but that doesn't count. BBC not only is controlled by Florentino they are also worshippers of Franco
Oh shit! Oh course! I need some unbiased reports about how Madrid were corrupt from an Atletico supporting journalist, which although completely unrelated to Barcelona somehow prove that Barca should've won the 1996 Swiss Cup Final.
 

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Niemans, you seem unable to understand that these arguments of yours are not rigorous or scientific or logical.

A 5-page Word document outlining specific instances of Barcelona getting bad calls from referees is less rigorous than the simple statement "Barcelona did not receive any penalties against them in two years."

A detailed explanation of a wrong offside call in 13/14 is less rigorous than the simple statement "clubs don't win 10 consecutive titles in leagues where they have genuine competition."

You become so fixated on particulars that you completely lose sight of the big picture.
 
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Very nice Iturralde's words which complement the following:


Roures: "Negreira made the reports for the CTA (referee technical comitee), on the performance of the referee, if he had done well, badly, just ok... he had the power to remove or promote the referee. He had an important role".
Very nice Iturralde's words which complement the following:


Roures: "Negreira made the reports for the CTA (referee technical comitee), on the performance of the referee, if he had done well, badly, just ok... he had the power to remove or promote the referee. He had an important role".
The Committee of Referees is composed of a President, three vice-presidents and a deputy to the presidency.

The Professional Competition Arbitration Committee is also constituted within the CTA, made up of three members: one appointed by the RFEF, another by the LNFP (National Professional Football League) and the last by mutual agreement between the two.
This body makes the appointments of the referees for the matches of the two professional competitions (LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank), in addition to receiving periodically and documented, the technical criteria applied in terms of promotions and relegations of referees and referees. assistants.

There is also a Technical Commission, chaired by Medina Cantalejo and of which a technical team appointed by the president himself is a part:
Managers of the First and Second Division: Clos Gómez, Undiano Mallenco and Yuste Jiménez.
Leaders of the First Federation: Lizondo Cortés and Medina Hernández.
Responsible for the Second Federation: Turienzo Álvarez and Sánchez Marcos.
Head of the Talent and Mentoring Program: Rubinos Pérez.

As you can see, there is a very large organization chart for Negreira to be able to do and undo as he pleases.

Also, a question, how did he do to favor Barcelona? How did you get the referees to favor Barcelona? He told them "hey you, you have to favor Barcelona". Or what was the theme?
 

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Oh shit! Oh course! I need some unbiased reports about how Madrid were corrupt from an Atletico supporting journalist, which although completely unrelated to Barcelona somehow prove that Barca should've won the 1996 Swiss Cup Final.
That's called an ad hominem fallacy, but I guess you don't know what it is.

Because a journalist collects truthful information about something from Real Madrid, it is no longer valid because the guy is from Atlético de Madrid. You have to raise the level a little to be able to debate my friend.
 

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That's called an ad hominem fallacy, but I guess you don't know what it is.

Because a journalist collects truthful information about something from Real Madrid, it is no longer valid because the guy is from Atlético de Madrid. You have to raise the level a little to be able to debate my friend.
Two things;

1) tone down the smarmy attitude, you're not nearly intelligent enough to pull it off
2) your club is corrupt and you know it, which is why you're scrambling around on here doing damage control. Unfortunately you're a moron so it's not working out well for you.
 

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The Committee of Referees is composed of a President, three vice-presidents and a deputy to the presidency.

As you can see, there is a very large organization chart for Negreira to be able to do and undo as he pleases.
This is the current Committee Organization.

As you can read by this article of Sport (a Barca newspaper, so not Florentino controlled nor Franco worshippers) this structure with 3 VP was established in 2018.

Exactly. This new structure was established when the previous president (Sanchez Arminio) and the previous VP (Negreira AKA Barca's buddy) stepped down after 24 years in both positions (1994-2018). Proof 1 and Proof 2.

What a joke, mate :D :D :lol: :lol:
 
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The Committee of Referees is composed of a President, three vice-presidents and a deputy to the presidency.

The Professional Competition Arbitration Committee is also constituted within the CTA, made up of three members: one appointed by the RFEF, another by the LNFP (National Professional Football League) and the last by mutual agreement between the two.

This body makes the appointments of the referees for the matches of the two professional competitions (LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank), in addition to receiving periodically and documented, the technical criteria applied in terms of promotions and relegations of referees and referees. assistants.

There is also a Technical Commission, chaired by Medina Cantalejo and of which a technical team appointed by the president himself is a part:
Managers of the First and Second Division: Clos Gómez, Undiano Mallenco and Yuste Jiménez.
Leaders of the First Federation: Lizondo Cortés and Medina Hernández.
Responsible for the Second Federation: Turienzo Álvarez and Sánchez Marcos.
Head of the Talent and Mentoring Program: Rubinos Pérez.

As you can see, there is a very large organization chart for Negreira to be able to do and undo as he pleases.

Also, a question, how did he do to favor Barcelona? How did you get the referees to favor Barcelona? He told them "hey you, you have to favor Barcelona". Or what was the theme?
Did I say he favored Barcelona? It's not my role to say that, the justice will determine that.

What I did was providing Jaume Roures quotes contradicting Iturralde's opinion that Negreira did not have power over the referees, because according to the former, he evaluated them when they went to the Nou Camp.
 

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Niemans is probably not old enough to remember the Chelsea game because that's all the evidence you need to see really.
 

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Niemans is probably not old enough to remember the Chelsea game because that's all the evidence you need to see really.
Niemans' claim is that the Chelsea game and the PSG game are the only instances in which Barcelona have benefitted from refereeing performances in Europe, and that those don't make up for all the negative calls they've gotten. See here.
 

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What I did was providing Jaume Roures quotes contradicting Iturralde's opinion that Negreira did not have power over the referees, because according to the former, he evaluated them when they went to the Nou Camp.
If Negreira didn't have any power then one might ask: why were they paying him?

We are being asked to believe Barcelona FC engaged in an illegal cover-up of ... nothing. They committed crimes just because.
 

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The Committee of Referees is composed of a President, three vice-presidents and a deputy to the presidency.

The Professional Competition Arbitration Committee is also constituted within the CTA, made up of three members: one appointed by the RFEF, another by the LNFP (National Professional Football League) and the last by mutual agreement between the two.

This body makes the appointments of the referees for the matches of the two professional competitions (LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank), in addition to receiving periodically and documented, the technical criteria applied in terms of promotions and relegations of referees and referees. assistants.

There is also a Technical Commission, chaired by Medina Cantalejo and of which a technical team appointed by the president himself is a part:
Managers of the First and Second Division: Clos Gómez, Undiano Mallenco and Yuste Jiménez.
Leaders of the First Federation: Lizondo Cortés and Medina Hernández.
Responsible for the Second Federation: Turienzo Álvarez and Sánchez Marcos.
Head of the Talent and Mentoring Program: Rubinos Pérez.

As you can see, there is a very large organization chart for Negreira to be able to do and undo as he pleases.

Also, a question, how did he do to favor Barcelona? How did you get the referees to favor Barcelona? He told them "hey you, you have to favor Barcelona". Or what was the theme?
You make a good point in the sense that when looking at some compilations, it might seem that every game was impacted.

But as someone who has worked as a law clerk and court advocate for almost 20 years, I can promise you that the prosecutor will claim that this is a very simple case when appealing to the court.

All you need to show is that (a) money was paid to someone holding a position of power, (b) the reason the money was paid had some kind of connection to that position, and (c) it was paid with the intent to impact how that person exercised his powers.

If Negreira was paid by Barca to give favorable treatment — but he instead of being the VP of the CTE was a voodoo doctor living in the jungle somewhere having no official position — and you don’t believe in voodoo — you might argue that it wouldn’t be bribery.

The seriousness of a crime can always be discussed — but bribery (sports corruption) can exist without getting any favor. It’s consummated from one side when the money is paid and from the other side when the money os received (for the above mentioned intent/purpose).
 
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As much as they should receive a harsh punishment for this, I can't see it happening. La Liga loses a lot of interest without Barcelona if Real are left as the only superpower. Someone high up the ladder will ensure that they don't get a serious punishment, I think.

In contrast, I can see City receiving a far harsher punishment (If they do get punished, which I am still skeptical of) because the PL doesn't need City in the way that La Liga needs Barcelona.
 

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What I am saying is that there is no evidence that this money has been used to buy arbitration favors.

Let's see, I've said it many times already. Barcelona paid Negreira, that is morally and ethically unacceptable and must be sanctioned with the corresponding sanction. What is not true and I have posted videos, links and so on is the tremendous campaign here in Spain saying that Barcelona won the titles thanks to the referees. When it is the opposite, Barcelona with correct arbitrations should have four more leagues, Real Madrid three less and Atlético de Madrid one less in those 18 years of Barcelona payments to Negreira.

I have some posts pending on how to brainwash people here in Spain with several very clear and forceful examples.
Here there are no counterweights, all the general press is a Madridista and Franco worshipers, who say that he was the good man of the Spanish War. The only exception is the Grupo Prisa, which is from the other side but is also a Madridista.
If Real Madrid paid money to the referees (like Barcelona have done) during the years they won it ahead of Barcelona. What conclusion will you reach from that?
 

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What I am saying is that there is no evidence that this money has been used to buy arbitration favors.

Let's see, I've said it many times already. Barcelona paid Negreira, that is morally and ethically unacceptable and must be sanctioned with the corresponding sanction. What is not true and I have posted videos, links and so on is the tremendous campaign here in Spain saying that Barcelona won the titles thanks to the referees. When it is the opposite, Barcelona with correct arbitrations should have four more leagues, Real Madrid three less and Atlético de Madrid one less in those 18 years of Barcelona payments to Negreira.

I have some posts pending on how to brainwash people here in Spain with several very clear and forceful examples.
Here there are no counterweights, all the general press is a Madridista and Franco worshipers, who say that he was the good man of the Spanish War. The only exception is the Grupo Prisa, which is from the other side but is also a Madridista.
According to the Prosecutor's report, Mr. Enrique Negreira stated that "Barcelona paid him to ensure that arbitration decisions were not made against him." Enrique Negreira was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees when he was paid.

You’re talking shit buddy.
 

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We have a Real Madrid comunicado oficial:

https://www.realmadrid.com/noticias/2023/03/12/comunicado-oficial

Real Madrid expresses its deep concern about the severity of the facts and reiterates its full confidence in the action of justice and has agreed that, in defense of its legitimate interests, it will take part in the proceedings as soon as the judge opens it to the injured parties.
 
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Barca, City and Juve are corrupt little cockroaches.

Stamp them out. Loathsome little clubs.
 

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Don't make any more excuses and blah blah blah. Prove me wrong with videos, photos and links. Yes, you are all telling me everything, calling everything, but I am the only one who provides evidence.
You have proven wrong time and time again, by many people.

You made a post claiming that Barcelona should have won the league in 16/17. In that post, you made this claim:

Winning that game, Barça was champion draw 93, we would win by goal average (without against 2 stolen points in Betis).
Barcelona finished the league season with 90 points and Real Madrid with 93. You are claiming that they had a victory stolen from them that would have given them the 93 points.

As me and others have pointed out, Barcelona were actually losing their last game of the season, against Eibar. In the 69th minute, when they were down by one goal, they were given this penalty. It is one of the most fraudulent penalties in modern football history. This penalty was a big scandal and reported in the international press at the time:



Messi actually missed the penalty.

Shortly after, Barcelona were given another penalty, this time for a dive by Neymar. The Eibar player who didn't foul Neymar was given a red card. This red card was rescinded afterward, and the Comité de Competición admitted that there was no contact.

Barcelona got three points from a game in a completely fraudulent manner. They should have gotten 1 or 0 points.

I pointed this out to you, in a thorough post with videos. You did not mention this incident at all in your original post.

And your response was:

Videos cannot be viewed. But you haven't commented on the plays I've put in. All of them. That those plays have much more influence on points than the 2 that you have put.
The videos cannot be viewed. Literally all you need to do is click on a link that says WATCH ON YOUTUBE and the videos open. Shameful evasion, plus a declaration that "these plays have much more influence", which is not based on anything.

When you make an argument where you want to show us "photos" and "videos," it is fundamentally an argument of trust. We have to trust that your videos and photos are a representation of reality. We don't trust that, because we have caught you trying to deceive us.

If you're willing to dismiss incidents that are 100% fraudulent, how many 80% fraudulent incidents might you be ignoring? In all these games Barcelona "should" have won, how many dubious incidents are there that you've decided, in your infinite wisdom, "have less influence" than whatever happened to Barcelona?

I quote your post again:

Winning that game, Barça was champion draw 93, we would win by goal average (without against 2 stolen points in Betis).
The game you are talking about is one against Malaga. So you are saying 90+3 = 93.

You are counting a fraudulent win as legitimate and hoping nobody notices. You are caught trying to deceive us. You cannot be trusted.
 
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Wouldn't it be amazing if you could get found out secretly paying refereeing officials millions of pounds over decades and get away it?

Assuming they don't find an appendix itemizing each decision with the renumeration required. With entries like Dodgy penalty £10'000 bonus etc.

Are the Barca defenders really going to be comfortable with the no direct proof argument.

There is a clear and already admitted conflict of interest so huge as to beggar belief anyone would in any way sanction dropping the issue.
If guilty they should absolutely be punished to the max. If it it’s just paying money to get intel on referees then whatever. If it is paying money so referees themselves can influence the matches for Barca then that is a huge stain.

Considering all the refs from the times say the corrupted ref wasn’t even officiating the matches but only a member of the ref board for meetings they had every couple months to provide intel (supposedly) that could be something else.

I genuinely hope the court case finds the truth
 

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Don't make any more excuses and blah blah blah. Prove me wrong with videos, photos and links. Yes, you are all telling me everything, calling everything, but I am the only one who provides evidence.
Here goes some evidence my guy

twitter.com/RafaRNMJ/status/1634704450819432448?s=20

From clear pen that was not conceded, to 2 yellow cards against RM in 30 seconds

The way you postulate your defense of a club which is guilty of paying up refereeing favours (whether those were in favour of Varcelona or against the competitors) beyond any reasonable doubt, is completely hilarious.


It must be endemic of the pro-independence Catalonia folks, I remember fondly the whole story you came up with back in 2017 after the illegal referendum when you addressed European countries claiming Spain was oppressing your people and stealing your moneys and throwing people into jail for no reason :(

Now, same as back then, any and all legitimate entities are turning their back on you, because we all know what kind of shittery is brewing in that region.
 

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The Committee of Referees is composed of a President, three vice-presidents and a deputy to the presidency.

The Professional Competition Arbitration Committee is also constituted within the CTA, made up of three members: one appointed by the RFEF, another by the LNFP (National Professional Football League) and the last by mutual agreement between the two.

This body makes the appointments of the referees for the matches of the two professional competitions (LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank), in addition to receiving periodically and documented, the technical criteria applied in terms of promotions and relegations of referees and referees. assistants.

There is also a Technical Commission, chaired by Medina Cantalejo and of which a technical team appointed by the president himself is a part:
Managers of the First and Second Division: Clos Gómez, Undiano Mallenco and Yuste Jiménez.
Leaders of the First Federation: Lizondo Cortés and Medina Hernández.
Responsible for the Second Federation: Turienzo Álvarez and Sánchez Marcos.
Head of the Talent and Mentoring Program: Rubinos Pérez.

As you can see, there is a very large organization chart for Negreira to be able to do and undo as he pleases.

Also, a question, how did he do to favor Barcelona? How did you get the referees to favor Barcelona? He told them "hey you, you have to favor Barcelona". Or what was the theme?
Yeah I get you, the vice president of that committee was probably there just filling uo the printing machine and sharpening pencils, apparently nobody knows what he was doing there hahaha which means there are a lot more people involved than we know so far
 

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Yeah I get you, the vice president of that committee was probably there just filling uo the printing machine and sharpening pencils, apparently nobody knows what he was doing there hahaha which means there are a lot more people involved than we know so far
I believe he posted the current structure which was not in place when Barcelona‘s advisor was in charge
 

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Here goes some evidence my guy

twitter.com/RafaRNMJ/status/1634704450819432448?s=20

From clear pen that was not conceded, to 2 yellow cards against RM in 30 seconds

The way you postulate your defense of a club which is guilty of paying up refereeing favours (whether those were in favour of Varcelona or against the competitors) beyond any reasonable doubt, is completely hilarious.


It must be endemic of the pro-independence Catalonia folks, I remember fondly the whole story you came up with back in 2017 after the illegal referendum when you addressed European countries claiming Spain was oppressing your people and stealing your moneys and throwing people into jail for no reason :(

Now, same as back then, any and all legitimate entities are turning their back on you, because we all know what kind of shittery is brewing in that region.
You put a play only and that's why Madrid is harmed. Please raise the bar.
With such a huge, huge and brainy analysis anyone refutes anything. The truth possesses you, impossible to counter that argument.

You have to analyze an entire season, not put a random play and say that is why Madrid is harmed.
If everyone did like you then all the teams would be favored and disadvantaged at the same time, by putting a video of when a club is favored and another video of when it is disadvantaged.

We are going to call your theory Schrödinger's negreira. A club is favored and disadvantaged at the same time.
 

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Yeah I get you, the vice president of that committee was probably there just filling uo the printing machine and sharpening pencils, apparently nobody knows what he was doing there hahaha which means there are a lot more people involved than we know so far
Obviously, because $300,000 euros that were paid a year is enough to bribe twenty-seven referees , 30 linesmen, 5 guys from the Arbitration Committee and other people. It does yield the money to bribe and buy referees.
 

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Then Barcelona would have 4 more leagues and Madrid 3 less and Atlético 1 less. I agree with you.
You lot are the only ones who bribed referees.

You don't need to repeat your so called evidence of referees favoring Madrid, means nothing until you have proof they paid refs too. :smirk:
 

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What is not true and I have posted videos, links and so on is the tremendous campaign here in Spain saying that Barcelona won the titles thanks to the referees. When it is the opposite, Barcelona with correct arbitrations should have four more leagues, Real Madrid three less and Atlético de Madrid one less in those 18 years of Barcelona payments to Negreira.
This is completely irrelevant and a different issue. You're arguing more about Barcelona not getting good value out of their bribes, which is still very subjective and nothing factual like you're pretending, and doesn't absolve at all Barcelona.

They have been caught paying money sistematically, and in a concealed fashion, to a person with influence in the refeeres' committee in order to get a favoured treatment. So I don't know why you keep posting those videos as they really don't do anything for disproving Negreira wasn't bribed.
 

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So what exactly is Barcelona's defense of the charges?

They just felt like paying this Negreira person for doing nothing?
 

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You lot are the only ones who bribed referees.

You don't need to repeat your so called evidence of referees favoring Madrid, means nothing until you have proof they paid refs too. :smirk:
Perez is a greedy cnut, needs to up the bribes. Our LaLiga record has been poor for two decades now.

Could’ve bought like 10 titles for the price of 1 Hazard.
 

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From my own experience with Inter and Milan words from Calciopoli trials :wenger: I am giving the answer you need: to prevent Juventus/Madrid gaining unfair advantage themselves.

So what exactly is Barcelona's defense of the charges?

They just felt like paying this Negreira person for doing nothing?
 

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What is this?:lol:
Whoever promoted him needs investigating too.
Well, basically to explain things about the financial FFP since there in England there is a lot of fake news. And I was also belittled and insulted around here and it turns out that the things I've said have happened. I don't like to do this kind of thing but I still put a summary of what happened at that time.