This Friday, FC Barcelona will face Sevilla FC for the eighth day of La Liga. Third, the Blaugrana club currently has 17 points. But he played one match less than Girona and Real Madrid who are ahead in the standings. Undefeated, the Culés intend to continue their momentum. They will have to ignore the context since Barça is still at the center of a controversy. Yesterday, judge Joaquin Aguirre Lopez decided to accuse the Catalan club of corruption as part of the so-called Negreira affair procedure.
The FCB allegedly paid around 7 million euros to the former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees between 2001 and 2018 for refereeing consulting and scouting services. This news hit like a bombshell yesterday. Moreover, the Telegraph revealed that Barça could be banned from professional football altogether. This would therefore be the supreme sanction for the residents of Camp Nou. Those involved in the affair, such as former presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, as well as Negreira’s son, Javier Enríquez, face 3 to 6 years in prison.
Barça is calm
In danger, FC Barcelona has not yet officially reacted since last night. The club does not intend to react, moreover, assures Mundo Deportivo. Despite the threats hanging over its head, the Spanish team remains calm. MD explains that this accusation of corruption has not yet been officially notified to the FCB. Furthermore, within the club, the Spanish media was told that the latest accusations did not surprise anyone. The teams responsible for defending the legal interests of the Catalans had already considered this hypothesis.
The sound of the bell is the same for Sportwho explains that the club does not want to show itself “alarmist” and that he had been working on a way to respond to these accusations of active corruption for a while. Barça seems calm. This is also the case of the former president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, who confided to Sport : “They won’t find anything. There is nothing”. In the midst of a storm, FC Barcelona is therefore showing its calm in the face of these new revelations and these new threats. The Negreira affair is therefore still far from over!
