Pedri is a signing, from Las Palmas. Araujo is a pseudo-signing (from Uruguay, but moved to the B team).
I think they could have signed a few less players, some of the signings were kinda pointless. Bellerín already left.
Barcelona: Charged with corruption .... again!
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I think they could have signed a few less players, some of the signings were kinda pointless. Bellerín already left.
Jesus, and I thought our fans were harsh on our club legend manager.Some salty responses on the Barca forum
Some times I look at our club and think what a mess then I remember Barca exists
https://www.football-espana.net/202...wskis-barcelona-contract-details-revealed/amp
You know how players get worse as they get Oder around early 30s. Barca pays him more every year to reward him for getting worse.
Or it’s an account trick to get past ffp but it looks terrible
https://www.football-espana.net/202...wskis-barcelona-contract-details-revealed/amp
You know how players get worse as they get Oder around early 30s. Barca pays him more every year to reward him for getting worse.
Or it’s an account trick to get past ffp but it looks terrible
Oh I thought Pedri was a youth product. My bad.
A lot of them do feel pointless.
Some of you Barca fans are mental. Imagine still being this sanctimonious after all your club have been revealed to have been doing for the past decade.
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What is mean, Stoic?
And do you think that this applies in any meaningful way to Barcelona's season in Europe? 2 wins over Viktoria, 2 draws against Inter and United and 4 losses against Bayern, United and Inter over the course of 5 months is not really similar to what you're describing.
BREAKING NEWS: Referee Estrada Fernández files a criminal complaint against Negreira
"He states that he provided advisory services and arbitration monitoring "with the aim of guaranteeing an arbitration favorable to the interests of FC Barcelona".
"He states that he provided advisory services and arbitration monitoring "with the aim of guaranteeing an arbitration favorable to the interests of FC Barcelona".
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Calling Fabrizio Romano a journalist is going a bit too far
Definitely Bayern. Their revenue is always top 3/top 5 and their commercial income is the highest of all clubs.
I'm surprised how straightforward it was against Barca. We're a level above them.
Compilation of additional background information:
---Barca are in the middle of a huge infraestructure remodelation called "Espai Barça". Works valued 1,500M€ plus interests. Now their credit rating is expected to drop and they don't have the funding yet, they planned to close it before 31 of March. Proof. They have already started demolishing part of the Camp Nou. Barca's own pictures
---There was a case of corruption scandal that involved Negreira and happened in the semifinals of the 1984 UEFA Cup between Anderlecht and Nottingham Forest. Former ref Albert Giménez said: "I am aware that they bought a referee, Guruzeta. Negreira was the linesman" Giménez's declaration. Constant Vanden Stock, president of Anderlecht admitted paying a million Belgian francs to the ref Gutuzeta. UEFA started an investigation and suspended the team for a year from European competitions. The main ref Gutuzeta died in a car accident and never testified. Negreira and the other linesman denied their participation on the corruption affairband ultimately UEFA declared the case had prescribed.Guardian article about said incident. You can read more here.
---Negreira was also involved in an embezzlement scandal in 2006 in relation to the Catalonian Referee Association: After a change of power, it was uncovered how that association —run by a friend of Negreira — had bought a lot of services from Negreira’s company, among other things 4,000 compendiums for referees, while it only had 1,400 members, a lot of video material, that nobody ever saw etc etc etc. Everything was also allegedly overpriced. This paints a pretty clear picture of Negreira. And it also casts doubt as to why FCB would keep hiring someone with such a dubious past. Link1 and Link2. (Big thanks to Messier1994 for this info)
---As previously stated, the Barca-Negreira affair was discovered by the reporter Sique Rodríguez from the program Que t'hi jugues from SER Barcelona. In this video Sique admits that they investigated as much as they could to find any leads that would mean other team (specially Real Madrid) was also involved in this affair but they found none.
This, together with the 'exclusivity' of Negreira's work might really mean it only affects Barcelona. We will see.
---If you are wondering why this affair is not bigger you might find useful to know that Barca also paid 7,2M€ to media companies such us diario Ara, Cope, Cadena Ser, Rac1, Mundo Deportivo and El Periódico or reporters such as Marçal Lorente. Proof1 and Proof2.
---In this video (that has English subtitles) Alfons Godall, the vicepresident of Barca 2003-2010 talks about several points:
--Barca (under Laporta's presidency) helped Villar get elected as president of Spanish FA.
--This started an era in which Barca were in good terms with the FA, with the La Liga institution and with the Referee Committee. (We recently learnt there are 7.3 millions reasons for this good relationship).
--Laporta also promoted a good relationship with the same institutions from UEFA, FIFA and the ECA.
So, who where in charge of the Referee Committees of UEFA and FIFA?
+The very same Villar was the president of FIFA's referee committee (also the VP of UEFA)
+Şenes Erzik was the deputy chairman of UEFA's Referee Committee and the Chief of Projects of UNICEF while Barca had UNICEF as a shirt sponsor.
In the very same video, the former Barca VP argues how not having such good relationships with these institutions would harm Barca from the point of view of sporting results. He specifically refers to the "saldo arbitral" or the difference in the refereeering regarding Barca and their rivals. Favourable and unfavourable ref decisions regarding Barca and their rivals.
Anyone remember what Negreira said he was getting paid for??
This "saldo arbitral" has been a fan talking point for years and, recently, is getting a little traction on Spanish press.
---Little extra info about "saldo arbitral" coming from this tweet.
Between 15/16 and 17/18 (114 games) Barca paid 1.6M to the ref VP. They had:
33 penalties for them 3 penalties against
23 red cards in favor 4 expulsions against
Between 18/19 and 20/21 (114 games) Barca made no payments to the ref VP. They had:
23 penalties for them 14 penalties against
15 red cards in favor 10 red cards against
More info about saldo arbitral:
---According to this article the last four Barcelona compliance officers have been sacked in quick succession since 2020 forlooking into irregular payments.
---Regarding this matter, Simeone, current Atlético de Madrid coach, said that "we all make a living out of this (football) and we would like to compete with the same possibilities" Minute 5:15 of this video
---Jesús Gil y Gil, the owner of Atlético de Madrid at the time already said in 1993 that Barca won the league thanks to Negreira. (1993 was the year Negreira stopped being a referee and started working for the ref committee). Proof of this declaration
---Ramón Mendoza, the president of Real Madrid at the time, already said in 1994 that there was indication of sport fraud involving Negreira (Proof of Mendoza's declaration)
---Negreira has declared he is in the early stages of Alzheimer and has presented medical evidence. Depending on the degree of this illness, Negreira could evade any criminal responsibility. Proof of this
---Luis Bassat was a candidate for the Barca presidency twice, in 2000 and 2003 (the period in which the ref payments started). He failed both times.
He gave an interview that you can read in Spanish here after losing the presidency elections against Laporta. In this interview he confesses the following:
"(I am feeling) Bad, but also liberated because [...] I have seen things that they say that I have to do that I will no longer have to deal with."
Q. What things?
A. For example, that a very important person from the club came to me and said: "And how do you want to be president, if there are many things you don't know?" What is it that I don't know?" And he answered me: "For example, how to bribe a referee.
--When Negreira stepped down as the ref VP in 2018 he started working in Mundo Deportivo (for those who don't know, Mundo Deportivo is the biggest Barca-centered newspaper in Spain). In this newspaper Negreira analyzed the ref performances for the whole 2019-2020 season. Coming from a Barca newspaper and written by a guy who earned millions thanks to Barca you can imagine the level of bias Barca fans learned from. Proof of this
--In the same year his son worked for TV also analysing ref performances while being employed by Barca (according to his own CV). He is the same guy who told some refs:
“You already know: here, calm down. Barcelona has a lot at stake and you can´t hesitate. You are more than prepared. You know exactly what you have to do." In this video he reviews the ref performance in a Clásico.
---In 1992 Negreira's son had an interview in Mundo Deportivo (biggest Barca-centered newspaper) and he explained how his father had granted him the possibility to train for La Masía. The interview reads 'It really isn't a case of influence peddling...' He also declared having being a Barca fan all his life. The original interview used to be online but not anymore, you can still read about it here.
---According to this article Tebas has said: "I don't think Barca bribed the refs. But they paid Negreira for 20 years. It feels as if they wanted to have an influence. I am definitely not saying they bribed the refs"
---Tebas (president of La Liga) and Soler plotted to kick Rubiales out and put Soler in his position. This means Tebas and Soler plotted to make Soler the president of Spanish FA. So, who is Soler?? Albert Soler was a Barca executive during 2014-2021(many of these years they were paying Negreira). Then he was Sports "Director General" 2021-2023. This is a high position in the Spanish gobernment, they are selected and fired directly by the the Council of Ministers. ((Also, after stepping down from the governmental position Soler has been named the Sports director of a consulting company called 'Acento Public Affairs'. One of the big clients they have is Tebas and La Liga. Proof in this article.Those two seem to have a good business relationship)). Soler also seems to be involved deeply in the Negreira case as you will see below.
There was recently a press call made jointly by the Spanish FA and the Referee Committee (CTA) regarding Negreira (the ref VP who received 6.6M€ from Barca) and his son.
They revelead that they made a huge investigation regarding every ref. A document from the investigation was leaked and it asked things like if they had been in contact with the son of Negreira or if he had taken them to a football stadium before and if any payments had been involved.
In this press call they didn't say much as they wanted to keep the results of the investigation private. The revealed that if the Spanish Prosecution filed a demand they will give them all the information they had, until then they would be kind of waiting.
They also said two things (did not revel any names)
-1 ref didn't collaborate.
-They found proof that 1 person with governmental attributions did in fact know that these payments were happening at the time but chose to not say anything or denounce it. The current thesis is that this person must be Albert Soler.
A high sports executive of the Government at the time and a former Barca executive during the time they were paying Negreira. According to this article the Spanish FA is considering taking legal action against him
----You can hear here Julio Salinas' declarations. The former Barca player has said:
"For me, Barça is guilty of corruption for having paid amounts with false invoices. It is a scandal to pay 8M€to a ref. It's like if I work as a scouter for Barça and they pay me a million a year because we are good friends. But I don't think Barca benefited from the referees. There has always been a tendency to harm Barca, the beneficiary is another club"
----This Barca official tweet from years ago reads: "Piqué: 'we don't use PEDs, we don't dive and we don't bribe refs' ". Just look at all the recent comments. .
----While all this is being revealed all Barca fans are acting like this fan who was interviewed outside the Camp Nou the day the news of Messi leaving broke out. And this one guy believed that Florentino was behind the whole thing Link (in Spanish)
TL; DR 1, 2, 3, 4
---Barca are in the middle of a huge infraestructure remodelation called "Espai Barça". Works valued 1,500M€ plus interests. Now their credit rating is expected to drop and they don't have the funding yet, they planned to close it before 31 of March. Proof. They have already started demolishing part of the Camp Nou. Barca's own pictures
---There was a case of corruption scandal that involved Negreira and happened in the semifinals of the 1984 UEFA Cup between Anderlecht and Nottingham Forest. Former ref Albert Giménez said: "I am aware that they bought a referee, Guruzeta. Negreira was the linesman" Giménez's declaration. Constant Vanden Stock, president of Anderlecht admitted paying a million Belgian francs to the ref Gutuzeta. UEFA started an investigation and suspended the team for a year from European competitions. The main ref Gutuzeta died in a car accident and never testified. Negreira and the other linesman denied their participation on the corruption affairband ultimately UEFA declared the case had prescribed.Guardian article about said incident. You can read more here.
---Negreira was also involved in an embezzlement scandal in 2006 in relation to the Catalonian Referee Association: After a change of power, it was uncovered how that association —run by a friend of Negreira — had bought a lot of services from Negreira’s company, among other things 4,000 compendiums for referees, while it only had 1,400 members, a lot of video material, that nobody ever saw etc etc etc. Everything was also allegedly overpriced. This paints a pretty clear picture of Negreira. And it also casts doubt as to why FCB would keep hiring someone with such a dubious past. Link1 and Link2. (Big thanks to Messier1994 for this info)
---As previously stated, the Barca-Negreira affair was discovered by the reporter Sique Rodríguez from the program Que t'hi jugues from SER Barcelona. In this video Sique admits that they investigated as much as they could to find any leads that would mean other team (specially Real Madrid) was also involved in this affair but they found none.
This, together with the 'exclusivity' of Negreira's work might really mean it only affects Barcelona. We will see.
---If you are wondering why this affair is not bigger you might find useful to know that Barca also paid 7,2M€ to media companies such us diario Ara, Cope, Cadena Ser, Rac1, Mundo Deportivo and El Periódico or reporters such as Marçal Lorente. Proof1 and Proof2.
---In this video (that has English subtitles) Alfons Godall, the vicepresident of Barca 2003-2010 talks about several points:
--Barca (under Laporta's presidency) helped Villar get elected as president of Spanish FA.
--This started an era in which Barca were in good terms with the FA, with the La Liga institution and with the Referee Committee. (We recently learnt there are 7.3 millions reasons for this good relationship).
--Laporta also promoted a good relationship with the same institutions from UEFA, FIFA and the ECA.
So, who where in charge of the Referee Committees of UEFA and FIFA?
+The very same Villar was the president of FIFA's referee committee (also the VP of UEFA)
+Şenes Erzik was the deputy chairman of UEFA's Referee Committee and the Chief of Projects of UNICEF while Barca had UNICEF as a shirt sponsor.
In the very same video, the former Barca VP argues how not having such good relationships with these institutions would harm Barca from the point of view of sporting results. He specifically refers to the "saldo arbitral" or the difference in the refereeering regarding Barca and their rivals. Favourable and unfavourable ref decisions regarding Barca and their rivals.
Anyone remember what Negreira said he was getting paid for??
This "saldo arbitral" has been a fan talking point for years and, recently, is getting a little traction on Spanish press.
---Little extra info about "saldo arbitral" coming from this tweet.
Between 15/16 and 17/18 (114 games) Barca paid 1.6M to the ref VP. They had:
33 penalties for them 3 penalties against
23 red cards in favor 4 expulsions against
Between 18/19 and 20/21 (114 games) Barca made no payments to the ref VP. They had:
23 penalties for them 14 penalties against
15 red cards in favor 10 red cards against
More info about saldo arbitral:
---According to this article the last four Barcelona compliance officers have been sacked in quick succession since 2020 forlooking into irregular payments.
---Regarding this matter, Simeone, current Atlético de Madrid coach, said that "we all make a living out of this (football) and we would like to compete with the same possibilities" Minute 5:15 of this video
---Jesús Gil y Gil, the owner of Atlético de Madrid at the time already said in 1993 that Barca won the league thanks to Negreira. (1993 was the year Negreira stopped being a referee and started working for the ref committee). Proof of this declaration
---Ramón Mendoza, the president of Real Madrid at the time, already said in 1994 that there was indication of sport fraud involving Negreira (Proof of Mendoza's declaration)
---Negreira has declared he is in the early stages of Alzheimer and has presented medical evidence. Depending on the degree of this illness, Negreira could evade any criminal responsibility. Proof of this
---Luis Bassat was a candidate for the Barca presidency twice, in 2000 and 2003 (the period in which the ref payments started). He failed both times.
He gave an interview that you can read in Spanish here after losing the presidency elections against Laporta. In this interview he confesses the following:
"(I am feeling) Bad, but also liberated because [...] I have seen things that they say that I have to do that I will no longer have to deal with."
Q. What things?
A. For example, that a very important person from the club came to me and said: "And how do you want to be president, if there are many things you don't know?" What is it that I don't know?" And he answered me: "For example, how to bribe a referee.
--When Negreira stepped down as the ref VP in 2018 he started working in Mundo Deportivo (for those who don't know, Mundo Deportivo is the biggest Barca-centered newspaper in Spain). In this newspaper Negreira analyzed the ref performances for the whole 2019-2020 season. Coming from a Barca newspaper and written by a guy who earned millions thanks to Barca you can imagine the level of bias Barca fans learned from. Proof of this
--In the same year his son worked for TV also analysing ref performances while being employed by Barca (according to his own CV). He is the same guy who told some refs:
“You already know: here, calm down. Barcelona has a lot at stake and you can´t hesitate. You are more than prepared. You know exactly what you have to do." In this video he reviews the ref performance in a Clásico.
---In 1992 Negreira's son had an interview in Mundo Deportivo (biggest Barca-centered newspaper) and he explained how his father had granted him the possibility to train for La Masía. The interview reads 'It really isn't a case of influence peddling...' He also declared having being a Barca fan all his life. The original interview used to be online but not anymore, you can still read about it here.
---According to this article Tebas has said: "I don't think Barca bribed the refs. But they paid Negreira for 20 years. It feels as if they wanted to have an influence. I am definitely not saying they bribed the refs"
---Tebas (president of La Liga) and Soler plotted to kick Rubiales out and put Soler in his position. This means Tebas and Soler plotted to make Soler the president of Spanish FA. So, who is Soler?? Albert Soler was a Barca executive during 2014-2021(many of these years they were paying Negreira). Then he was Sports "Director General" 2021-2023. This is a high position in the Spanish gobernment, they are selected and fired directly by the the Council of Ministers. ((Also, after stepping down from the governmental position Soler has been named the Sports director of a consulting company called 'Acento Public Affairs'. One of the big clients they have is Tebas and La Liga. Proof in this article.Those two seem to have a good business relationship)). Soler also seems to be involved deeply in the Negreira case as you will see below.
There was recently a press call made jointly by the Spanish FA and the Referee Committee (CTA) regarding Negreira (the ref VP who received 6.6M€ from Barca) and his son.
They revelead that they made a huge investigation regarding every ref. A document from the investigation was leaked and it asked things like if they had been in contact with the son of Negreira or if he had taken them to a football stadium before and if any payments had been involved.
In this press call they didn't say much as they wanted to keep the results of the investigation private. The revealed that if the Spanish Prosecution filed a demand they will give them all the information they had, until then they would be kind of waiting.
They also said two things (did not revel any names)
-1 ref didn't collaborate.
-They found proof that 1 person with governmental attributions did in fact know that these payments were happening at the time but chose to not say anything or denounce it. The current thesis is that this person must be Albert Soler.
A high sports executive of the Government at the time and a former Barca executive during the time they were paying Negreira. According to this article the Spanish FA is considering taking legal action against him
----You can hear here Julio Salinas' declarations. The former Barca player has said:
"For me, Barça is guilty of corruption for having paid amounts with false invoices. It is a scandal to pay 8M€to a ref. It's like if I work as a scouter for Barça and they pay me a million a year because we are good friends. But I don't think Barca benefited from the referees. There has always been a tendency to harm Barca, the beneficiary is another club"
----This Barca official tweet from years ago reads: "Piqué: 'we don't use PEDs, we don't dive and we don't bribe refs' ". Just look at all the recent comments.
.----While all this is being revealed all Barca fans are acting like this fan who was interviewed outside the Camp Nou the day the news of Messi leaving broke out. And this one guy believed that Florentino was behind the whole thing
Link (in Spanish)TL; DR 1, 2, 3, 4
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Truly the biggest tragedy. Oppression from Madridistas never stops.
Ikr.
I even explain later on how the discoverer of the news is actually a culé that informed the club but who cares right?
Oops, I see I misspelled something there in the original post. I will correct it.
(I can't write any new messages today. I will answer you here. Sorry)
As it has already been said they were friends with Villar who was the VP of UEFA, and president of FIFA's referee committee.
Villar is currently being investigated on the "Caso Soule", involving 22M€. Josep Contreras Arjona, a former Barca executive who died recently, was also involved in "Caso Soule"
Also, Şenes Erzik was the deputy chairman of UEFA's Referee Committee and the Chief of Projects of UNICEF while Barca had UNICEF as a shirt sponsor and won in the Stamford Bridge scandal.
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Any proof that they pulled the same stuff in Europe? Surely they wouldn't have only stopped at la liga.
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None so far, although they were close to Villar who was a big shot with UEFA........
Hopefully some concrete stuff will pop up soon assuming this isn't all brushed under the rug.
All contracts Barca sign are heavily back-loaded. Think it’s a consequence of their presidency set-up, whomever gets the nod maximize their spending not caring about the future.
No proof, but the head of reffing for UEFA was a big shot for UNICEF, so Barca jumped in and sponsored UNICEF and gave them parts of its earnings.
Who are you referring to? Roberto Rossetti is an ex referee.
Great stuff @FreckBarca!!!
I would add this part about Negreira being involved in an embezzlement scandal in 2006 in relation to the Catalonian Referee Association:
https://www.elespanol.com/deportes/...oste-federacion-catalana/741926229_0.amp.html
After a change of power, it was uncovered how that association — while run by a friend of Negreira — had bought a lot of services from Negreira’s company, among other things 4,000 compendiums for referees, while it only had 1,400 members, a lot of video material, that nobody ever saw etc etc etc. Everything was also allegedly overpriced. Don’t think this became a court case — but it was made public and got media attention.
First of all, I think it paints a pretty clear picture of Neigreira. And it also casts doubt as to why FCB would hire someone with such a dubious past.
Here is an article from 2006 on it:
https://as.com/futbol/2006/07/22/mas_futbol/1153549632_850215.amp.html
I would add this part about Negreira being involved in an embezzlement scandal in 2006 in relation to the Catalonian Referee Association:
https://www.elespanol.com/deportes/...oste-federacion-catalana/741926229_0.amp.html
After a change of power, it was uncovered how that association — while run by a friend of Negreira — had bought a lot of services from Negreira’s company, among other things 4,000 compendiums for referees, while it only had 1,400 members, a lot of video material, that nobody ever saw etc etc etc. Everything was also allegedly overpriced. Don’t think this became a court case — but it was made public and got media attention.
First of all, I think it paints a pretty clear picture of Neigreira. And it also casts doubt as to why FCB would hire someone with such a dubious past.
Here is an article from 2006 on it:
https://as.com/futbol/2006/07/22/mas_futbol/1153549632_850215.amp.html
I don’t know his name by memory, a Turk, who supposedly also was responsible for the refs in the 2002 WC. Could have some details mixed up.
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here it is:
https://www.futbolgate.com/investigación/unicef-uefa-y-el-barça
There was a few pretty questionable decisions in that tournament wasn't there. Seem to remember a fair bit of criticism from South Korea's matches.
Where is the like for this post?
Got it, I thought you meant the current one.
Great report. Keep up the good works mate. Thanks.
It's also just a matter of economic planning. They figure by the time the contract kicks up to 16M they'll have enough revenue and spending power to easily afford it, more easily than they can afford 10M this season in fact
Shortly after news of the payments emerged, Spanish media outlets published further information suggesting Barca had actually been paying DASNIL 95 since at least 2001. Late on Thursday, documents carried by the newspaper El Mundo put a value on them: just over €6.6m.
This stinks. I despise that club.
This stinks. I despise that club.
I am pretty curious as to whether Barcelona are going to produce this video material and reports.
I think at the very least, a Barcelona fan would have to admit the club has handled this poorly.
I think at the very least, a Barcelona fan would have to admit the club has handled this poorly.
not. it’s everyone else who is wrong.
I think it is mindblowingly insane that they haven’t put out a proper statement by now. Don’t they have a PR team?
playing the news cycle.
Of course they do. Problem is it's basically impossible to find anything meaningful to say now. That's when you'd better shut up so imo they actually are doing the right thing. Look at Nieman for example.
There is only one way to handle this, creating a couple of scapegoats and put it on them. ‘Barcelona FC is as much a victim of these scums as everyone else’.
Why haven’t they? Laporta is running the club and every action the club takes is to defend him rather than the club. He would be the ‘scapegoat’.
Everyone with half a brain realize that this will never blow over without consequences, and what can the consequences be for bribing the referee system for 18+ years? Nothing short of demotion can suffice. But if handled the right way — they could come back after that like Juve did. But how will club be viewed if they keep going for a couple of months, half a year, or whatever, about how it’s nothing and everyone should stop crying?
And I mean, that is everyone around that club sending out that message right now. Ask Pep about it in an interview, he would ridicule the question. Xavi is joking about it like it’s nothing. Ex players are going on the offensive claiming that it’s a conspiracy.
Everyone will understand that it’s not right to pay €7,000,000 to a high ranking referee official. Every time that is defended by the Barca community, they become complicit even if it’s not the “club” that is extremely dirty, but a very few de facto criminals at the top.
I get what you mean, but a club this size cannot be quite. Everything it does, says something. Every time a player on the pitch complains on a ref — the world is thinking something. Interpret it as something. How many of the viewers of FCB vs us thought about Barcagate when they got the soft penalty? 75%?
If this was an individual, they could keep quiet. Fans, ex players, what they say are interpreted as coming from the Club.
On it
Sadly, time is the greatest ally for Barcelona. People's attention span is ridiculously short and easy to manipulate. Their competitors in Spain may be offered under the table deals from both Barcelona and La Liga (because the scandal is affecting La Liga as much as Barcelona) to keep their frustration to themselves.
The local prosecution is also negatively incentivised to go hard on Laporta and Barcelona because of their importance in the local economy.
I really hope there are serious consequences but have my doubts.
@FreckBarca honestly incredible post and probably a level above any of the so-called "journalists" we have to deal with in the media. Brilliant stuff.
Great post, expecting Barca bots to post the decisions that went against them to show how it was all Madrid who bribed the refs.
Brilliant posts from FreckBarca.
There are still people who will say there is no evidence despite all the evidence.
There are still people who will say there is no evidence despite all the evidence.