The previous vice-president of Spanish soccer’s Referees’ Committee despatched a threatening fax to Barcelona in 2019 after the membership knowledgeable him they have been stopping funds to him, based on El Mundo in Spain.
It was revealed earlier this week that Barcelona paid an organization owned by former referee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira £1.2m, throughout a two-year interval for technical recommendation on referees, whereas he was vice-president of the Referees’ Committee.
On Friday El Mundo revealed a duplicate of a fax despatched to the membership after they disbursed along with his providers through which he says he would ‘publicise all of the irregularities I’ve recognized and skilled at first hand in relation to the membership’, if an settlement weren’t reached between the 2 events.
The fax additionally states that Enriquez Negreira was ‘shocked and upset’ by then Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu’s choice to finish the working relationship.
‘In spite of everything this time collectively I take it as a private insult,’ the fax says, later including that: ‘one other scandal wouldn’t favour the membership’.
The fax acknowledged that former referee Negreira was ‘shocked and upset’ at Josep Bartomeu’s (above) choice to finish their working relationship
Regardless of the fax Barcelona did fully reduce ties with Enriquez Negreira in 2018 and there have been no subsequent revelations.
Spanish radio Cadena Ser revealed earlier within the week that Barcelona made funds to Enriquez’ firm DASNIL 95 from 2016 to 2018, ending on the similar time Enriquez Negreira left his place as vice-president of the Referees’ Committee.
Barcelona issued a press release on Wednesday through which it admitted to having contracted the providers of an ‘exterior’ marketing consultant who ‘supplied technical studies associated to skilled refereeing with a purpose to complement data required by the teaching employees’, one thing that it claimed was ‘frequent observe in skilled soccer golf equipment’.
Different golf equipment do make use of former referees as consultants however to have achieved so whereas Enriquez Negreira was nonetheless vice-president of the Referees’ Committee has left Barcelona and Spanish soccer with inquiries to reply.
El Mundo reported on Friday that funds from Barcelona to Enriquez Negreira’s firm date again to 2001 and complete €6,659m (£5,915m).
LaLiga president Javier Tebas has stated the Spanish league cannot take motion towards Barcelona
LaLiga head Javier Tebas stated on Thursday that no motion might be taken by the Spanish League as a result of the offences date again additional than three years. The Spanish Soccer Federation say since present president Luis Rubiales took energy in 2018 Enriquez Negreira has not been a part of the Referees’ Committee and that it’s now prohibited for any member of the physique to be employed as a marketing consultant by any membership.
The stance of the 2 soccer authorities in Spain would go away any potential punishment within the fingers of Spain’s public prosecutor however for it to take motion it must be proved that the outcomes of matches have been influenced by the contractual relationship that existed between the membership and Enriquez Negreira.
The present president of Spain’s Referees’ Committee Luis Medina Cantalejo stated on Thursday: ‘I’ve been 11 years within the First Division and I can say that there was completely no trace, no recommendation from me or my colleagues, a lot of whom are within the media at the moment, about having any form of bias in outcomes, in decision-making that would profit one workforce or one other.’
In accordance with Cadena Ser Barcelona nonetheless pay for recommendation on referees however they at present make use of a former referee and pay him lower than €25,000 (£22,000) euros a yr.
