Barcelona President Joan Laporta has claimed that the membership shall be cleared of any wrongdoing within the Negreira case, as they stand accused of sporting corruption. He additionally opined on the officiating and the institutional battles the Blaugrana have had over the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
Reforms are coming within the officiating in Spanish soccer, with Head of the Referees Committee (CTA) Luis Medina Cantalejo anticipated to maneuver on. Actual Madrid have been invited to hitch the reform committee involving the golf equipment alongside Sevilla, Actual Betis, the RFEF and La Liga. Regardless of important complaints final season, Laporta says Barcelona are altering tack.
“There’s a membership committee to enhance the refereeing system. We’re not a part of this committee, however we’re invited and we’ll contribute what we will. We attempt to complain as little as potential as a result of enjoying the sufferer has by no means labored for us. Complaints weren’t getting outcomes. There’s a sociological Madridismo,” he advised TV3.
In fact the essential context is the Negreira case, the place Barcelona are underneath suspicion having paid the previous Vice-President of the CTA Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira €7-8m over a interval of 17 years between 2001 and 2018. Laporta has denied wrongdoing up to now, however says that the Blaugrana shall be acquitted.
“The refereeing is changing into increasingly skilled, we favor to not get too concerned with complaining. There’s been a smear marketing campaign relating to the Negreira affair, which is able to finish in acquittal… That’s why I say it’s been essentially the most troublesome season, additionally due to the registration challenge,” he mentioned in reference to his ‘in opposition to all the pieces and everybody’ remark after successful the title.
Actual Madrid criticism of referees
Concurrently, one of many essential storylines this season has been Actual Madrid’s makes an attempt to strain referees by a constant line of criticism and accusation of bias, whatever the officers concerned.
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“I favor not to talk about it,” mentioned Laporta. “They’ve their technique and I respect it. Our recipe is: soccer, soccer, soccer. And within the places of work, attempt to criticise constructively in order that they hurt us as little as potential throughout opposed conditions. Traditionally, Barca has needed to be a lot better to win titles. And this season has been an excellent instance.”
Registration points with Dani Olmo and Pau Victor
Laporta and Barcelona managed to maintain Dani Olmo and Pau Victor registered by way of an injunction kind the Excessive Courtroom for Sport in January, with La Liga and the RFEF opposing them. When the preliminary injunction was granted, Laporta reacted boisterously on the Spanish Supercup semi-final, insulting a few of the RFEF officers current.
“What damage me was that it went in opposition to all the weather and that our individuals [referring to the Catalan media] took on the identical discourse, it did injury. However I’ve to respect them and right now we’re all glad as a result of the enjoyment of Barcelonismo has returned. But it surely was a troublesome scenario.”
“Even Flick requested me for a chat and I needed to inform them they might be registered; it was a horrible strain and once we left that discuss, they gave us the go-ahead. The Federation and LaLiga conspired to make it unimaginable. That’s why after they have been registered, I flipped them off,” Laporta defined, after his rowdy response within the depths of the stadium on the Spanish Supercup semi-final.