“Sewer rat, hormone dwarf.” This is how Bartomeu’s board of directors at FC Barcelona insulted Messi

According to publish The Newspaper of Cataloniaa An investigation by the Mossos d’Esquadra suggests that the leak to the press of the contracts of Lionel Messi and Gerard Piqué started from the management team of the previous board chaired by Josep Maria Bartomeu. As if that were not enough, the investigation also reveals the serious insults that were uttered by important figures of the blaugrana executive, such as that of the head of legal services, Román Gómez Ponti, towards both emblems of the club

According to the documentation held by the Catalan regional police, in March 2020 the then head of the club’s legal department raised in an email the possibility of leaking the contracts of the Barcelona stars. “It wouldn’t be a bad idea either to publish the million-dollar contracts of the first team so that people can publicly repudiate them,” Gómez Ponti writes to Bartomeu.

In January of the following year, the daily The world published Messi’s contract, which could mean a crime of revealing secrets.

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When the contracts came to light, the exchange of messages between managers and senior executives of the club, with the director Òscar Grau included in the conversation, is a mixture of finding guilty and insulting the players.

The only one who remains calm and who unequivocally censures the situation is President Josep Maria Bartomeu, who affirms “Óscar (to Óscar Grau), this leak can only come out of the club. I don’t think it was a leak from him to cause him to leave. Whoever leaked it hurts the club”. And adds that the figures that have been published on Messi’s contract “in times without a pandemic were totally acceptable”.

But the most striking thing is the tone used by the head of legal services, Román Gómez Ponti to refer to Messi. “Barto, really, you can’t be such a good person with this sewer rat. The club has given him everything and he has dedicated himself to marking a dictatorship of signings, transfers, renewals, patros (sponsors) just for him, etc. I will never be able to do it, but Pinto, the renewal of (Luis) Suárez, and that of Jordi Alba, or the renewal commission for Fati (Rodrigo Messi, agent?) should be added to the figures of his contract? and on top of that he had a drug dealer as a partner). And above all the accumulation of blackmail and rudeness that the club and those of us who work have suffered from this hormone dwarf who owes his life to Barça… ah! But when things go wrong (pandemic) you receive the mythical WhatsApp: ‘President, lower the salaries of others, but don’t touch me and Luis’. Hopefully it marches between the indifference of the people, which is the worst thing that can happen to him (one more pesetero) ”.

To this tirade, Òscar Grau responded with a laconic “yes” while Bartomeu insisted that “I agree on many things, but first Barça and this type of article damages the image of the club”.

To complete the disqualification statements, Ponti adds that “Pinto, the renewal of Luis Suárez and that of Jordi Alba should be added to the figures of his contract. Or the renewal commission for Fati (Rodrigo Messi, agent? But if he doesn’t even know how to read and on top of that, he has a drug dealer as a partner) ”.

According to the note of The Newspaper of Cataloniathe manager Oriol Tomàs points out that the leak could come from the environment of Joan Laporta, the current president of the Catalan club.

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