The president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laportahas reiterated this Monday that the azulgrana club “has never carried out any action that had as its final objective or intention to alter the competition to achieve some type of sporting advantage”; In addition, he has denounced the “public lynching” against the institution for him Negreira caseFor this reason, it has asked “institutions and the media” to respect the “principle of innocence”.

Laporta has carried out a massive appearance before the media to address the so-called Negreira case, about the payments made by FC Barcelona for seventeen years to José María Enríquez Negreira, then vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA).

The leader has started his intervention denouncing a “giant international smear campaign”, with “defamatory statements that have nothing to do with reality”. “At FC Barcelona, ​​we want to win, and we really like how we win, playing well. We don’t like to win with arbitration aid. It’s obvious that we have detractors, who try to erode our prestige, sometimes out of envy, out of feeling, and other times times for non-sporting reasons”, he expressed, to then warn: “They are not going to achieve it, no smear campaign will prevent FC Barcelona from continuing to be an institution or club of reference for world sport”.

Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona between 2003 and 2010 and since 2021, has reported that the club has “professional advice” from a person with “a career in the refereeing establishment”, who carried out his work “with clarity and transparency”. “This advice existed, and it is in the invoices, paid by bank transfer,” he commented.

“There are individuals from an entity external to the club, other than FC Barcelona, who have taken advantage of the context to make a profit. We will defend the honor of the club, and we are the first interested in making the issue known until the end. FC Barcelona is a victim in this matter. In no case the FC Barcelona would be responsible”.

The president of the Catalan club has appeared together with the 629 technical-arbitral reports, 43 cedés and four different reports that the external investigation has analyzed, and has appealed to the “presumption of innocence, which FC Barcelona has not had at the media level until now”: “He has been subjected to a conviction and lynching by the media without trial. We are witnessing a Solomonic trial, it is intolerable and inexplicable,” he lamented.

“LaLiga has had an unwise, irresponsible performance, and an obvious lack of professionalism. I ask Thebes to stop fueling this controversy. It is validating a hypothesis that is false”, he criticized the president of the employers’ association, before thanking the “prudent action” of Luis Rubiales, president of the RFEF, José Manuel Franco, president of the CSD, and Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA.

Source: Eitb

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