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The Barcelona affair and the questionable payment continues to stir up Spanish football.
Yesterday (Monday), four days after declaring that he would not act against Barcelona, La Liga president Javier Tabas said club president Juan Laporte would have to resign if he could not explain the issue of payments that the team made to the vice president of the referees union.
Now in Spain it is being reported that if last week the affair caused an uproar mainly among the fans and the authorities, now the heads of the teams have also begun to demand answers and try to act on the issue.
The most prominent of all was the president of Atlético Madrid, Miguel Angel Gil, who criticized the arbitrary payment and demanded that it be investigated, but the heads of Sevilla and Espanyol also publicly criticized the questionable move against the background of a meeting of the heads of the first and second league clubs.
"The club wants to express its concern about the affair, and demands to get to the bottom of things to clarify what is behind it and who is responsible," said Sevilla.
Espanyol stated that "the possible consequences of the published affair could be so serious that they require extraordinary action in terms of clarifying what really happened and clearing responsibility."
Atlético took a step forward, and also demanded an investigation into Barsgate: "Our position is very clear: this is a very serious issue and for the good of our football it must be fully investigated and clarified."
No response has yet been heard from Real Madrid.
The pressure is increasing.
Lafora and Barca (Photo: GettyImages, David Ramos)
"There is a lot of concern regarding the Negira and Barca issue," Tabas said yesterday.
"This causes image damage to Spanish football and also to Barca, which is eventually investigated in the matter. We will not act as long as there is a police investigation, but we cannot ignore the complaints. We will investigate and Barca has also started an internal investigation. We are waiting for explanations and meanwhile Barcelona has not explained anything. We do not We understand why Negreira received money for so long. I don't like it. Laforte should resign if he is not able to clearly explain the payments."
When asked what is more disturbing, Juventus' financial offenses or the story of Barcelona's referees, Tabas replied: "Right now, I will say Juventus because they have already been punished, but in the future I think Barcelona's situation will be worse."
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Javier Tabas (Photo: GettyImages)
Last week it was reported that the Catalans paid 1.4 million euros to Jose Maria Enriques Negreira, during his tenure as vice president of the Union of Judges between 2016 and 2018.
The club claimed that it was a payment for "technical advice", but Spanish football was in an uproar and an investigation was opened, after the previous president Josep Maria Bartomeu made it clear that it was an inheritance from Laporte's previous term, which allegedly started payments back in 2013.
As a reminder, it was reported yesterday that Atlético Madrid asked all the league clubs to give a joint statement regarding the "Negreira case", but Matteo Allemani representing Barcelona refused and so did Real Madrid.
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