Sid Lowe joins the ESPN FC crew to detail the latest on Barcelona’s referee scandal from 2016-2018 now becoming a legal case.
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Love how Barcelonas peak everything is tarnished 2001-2018 absolute cheats every trophy needs to be withdrawn.
i don't see anything wrong with the reasons they paid him….infact, referees should tell every player about those things for free.
Not a suprise is it?
Spanish treasury found no evidence against barca and barca has already sued 5 media organisations for defamation,why no media house is covering this,this is a selective outrage against barca nothing else…
The prosecutor's office has found no evidence that Negreira influenced referees or results in Barcelona's favour. And Barcelona has filed five lawsuits against journalists for defamation in the Negreira case
Barcelona should be relegated. Why is Sid Lowe waffling on this obvious point?
Kindly investigate fifa 2022 theres gonna be something interesting is there for sure 😂
So where's the updated report, now that Barça has been cleared of all charges
well this didn't age well 😂😂
ESPN really milked caso negreira whenever there was bad news to report. How come we're not hearing any updates now?
Still waiting for ESPN to report on the fact that arbitrators have seen no evidence that Negreira influenced results in favour of Barcelona. In fact they have found evidence that supports Barcas claim that they were paying for reports on referees. EFE have confirmed as much, why has ESPN been so quiet about it?
Well case has been found to be utter BS and Barca did nothing wrong. Wonder if the media will report that…..
ESPN= Madrid TV
FCB=Futbol Club Bribe
It was from 2001 not 2016
Well, well, well, we have been telling it for a long time not just on the pitch but also off the pitch, when they are not afraid of the referee they play well when they play well They can win a lot of awards at Fifa. everything is in a circle if you know what I mean
Every team does things like this
similar case with Juventus in 2006, they relegated to Serie B. This UEFAlona should face the same consequences or worse than that. what a shame to the country
Dumb people think of any possible way to prove why they were bad
Every single time Barcelona start shining . The league/haters are always trying to bring them down…..
Who in the world is actually naive enough to think Barcelona paid that much money and didn't ask for inside info or for favoritism? 🙄
This is the dumbest case I've ever heard and it's a sure proof of how much Barca is hated in Spain, just when they are looking like league winners they bring this to try and disrupt everything. They're making this case seem like Negreira is some referee mafia who had all the referees under his wings, referees from all competitions are under this one man coz he's the badass king pimp of referees and making payments to him means he'd manipulate games in ur favor, pure bullocks.
Not just all clubs, all sports do this, imagine thinking Vegas let’s sports get decided by luck or chance 😂 there is a reason they are registered as entertainment and not sports.
Lol if anyone has the refs in their pockets it’s Real Vardrid. They have the most penalties awarded than any other side. How convenient that this surfaces when Barca are winning the league and will possibly win all other domestic titles. They will also be in the Champion’s League next season so they will use this as an excuse to ban them from playing. This is all political fishing expedition.
That means Messi ballon d ors will be taken away.
Another small point: the graphic says EN said Barcelona paid him "to make sure no refereeing decisions were made against them…"
This is false. The quote is taken from EN's statements to Spanish Revenue. He specifically never mentioned refereeing decisions. He was talking about the CTA, an institutional body on refereeing (with no powers vis-à-vis day-to-day appointments) that FCB considered to be packed with pro-Madrid officials.
Statement 1) "What FC Barcelona wanted was to make sure that no decisions were taken against the club, that everything was neutral.”
Statement 2) “They asked me that the Competition Committee should not be composed entirely of judges from Madrid, that Barça should have an interlocutor with the Federation to look after institutional relations or to keep them informed of possible interests or disagreements between the League and the Federation."
Statement 3) "That way they were reassured that there were no decisions against FC Barcelona in the CTA, that everything was neutral.”
It's really obvious that FCB were trying to buy some influence in an institutional body that they saw as weighted against them by giving an official cushy second job.
Sid Lowe certainly knows what he's talking about with regards Spanish football but why is Del Piero even invited on for comment? His latter playing career in USA and India aside, does he only qualify as someone who played for a club (Juventus) who were cheating Italian cunts found guilty of bribing refs and cheating the tax man?
these are the Barça highlights that really matter lol
I remember deliberate hands ball /offside /very easy penalty almost every game so I hope they look into it and bury them
Pessidog with his rigged ballon d ors 😂😂😂😂
DEL PIERO JUS KNOW JUVENTUS WAS IN ONE LOLOL
A few points of fact. The case is being investigated by the courts (maybe what Sid means by being 'legal') because when the public prosecutor was looking into it to see if it had 'legs', a Spanish ref decided to sue Negreira for bringing his name into disrepute. That gave the case legs right there, so the courts have to look into it on their own account now. That Madrid, La Liga, etc would add their names to the potentially interested parties is pretty much automatic, given the circumstances.
Negreira wasn't a ref when he received payments for his professional services, but he did sit on a 'technical committee' for reffing. This didn't give him any powers to influence games or ref appointments or even to have access to refs, any more than he could in any case as a former ref. If FCB did want to buy refs in any case, (as Piqué's pointed out) they could have done it directly, for much less money, and without leaving a paper trail for Spanish Revenue to follow.
That still leaves the question of why they paid all this dosh to Negreira. For me the most likely reason is that they saw him as a guy with a certain amount of weight and that by 'keeping him on side' with a cushy little job for the club, they were buying insurance against a Madrid-based system they saw as weighted against them. A bit like protection money. That the club thought there was something fishy about the payments seems to be borne out by the fact that they used so many intermediary entities to make them. And there could be 'intention to corrupt' even without ever having influenced the outcome of games.
More than anything else, the club looks dumb for paying so much to guy who everybody says was just a chancer with little or no influence.
Maybe investigate Manchester united during Fergies reign as we all know the decisions they got from refs during that time
Are they ever going to stop cheating?
The most stupid thing I listen for ages 😂😂😂😂😂
VARcelona and their fanbase knows but they will gatekeep till the end
If Barca are guilty, all trophies during that period will surely be in question
Soccer was always my passion since I was a kid unfortunately I have lost that passion for the sport the emotions and the feelings you get when you are watching your favorite team play. Thank you FIFA for ruining the sport by using the VAR
Surprised that Real Madrid is offering up themselves to be part of the investigation considering they would get any and every call for years in la liga
Sid Lowe 🤡🤡😆😆