Independent auditors alerted Barcelona to suspicion over Negreira payments

Barcelona President Joan Laporta is set to give a press conference on Monday morning at 11:00 CEST in order to explain the club’s version of events over El Caso Negreira. He remained bullish over the scandal on Sunday, but less than 24 hours ahead of that press conference, further questions have been raised over the Barcelona board.

According to the latest reporting from El Mundo, via Marca, Barcelona were well aware of the fact that Enriquez Negreira was earning desorbitant fees from the club in 2010. After Joan Laporta left the Presidency for the first time in 2010, after which then incumbent Sandro Rosell was informed not only of the high cost of the payments, but of the fact that over the course of Laporta’s presidency, his fees had quadrupled, including a 101% rise in the final year of his reign. Agency KPMG were contracted to audit the club accounts, which is when they raised the issue.

Nevertheless, Rosell chose to ignore those warnings and continued on with the payments to Negreira, with Josep Maria Bartomeu maintaining Negreira until 2018, when he lost his position as Vice-President of the Referees Committee.

Barcelona are under heavy pressure to give satisfactory answers, with potentially history-altering consequences. If Barcelona, already stretched financially, are banned from European competition, the club could be forced into major sales from the first team.

Tags Barcelona Caso Negreira Enriquez Negreira Joan Laporta Sandro Rosell

5 Comments

  1. There is no reason to throw money over someone and receive same service. If you pay outrageous fees to someone, you expect something back in return for that pay raise.

    For instance 2 seasons without a single penalty called against them.
    Uefa arent stupid. BribELopoli 2.0 is loading.

  2. It would be interesting to know if Laporta himself will be investigated as this whole “payment arrangement” was devised under his first term as president.

    1. Of course he will. Match fixing is a crime. Paying = match fixing. Who gets punished? Those whose pay money in exchange for a service. In other words, rosell, bartomeu and him. The three amigos.

      He was already under investigation for Uzbekistan affair (google it) and lets just sat that affair will tarnish his credibility if he gets dragged to crossexamination chair. Uefa needs to sit all three of them down. And they will, if bribELona doesnt abandon SL project. Which they wont, as its their only chance of getting money in Europe – evidented by last two floppity-flop seasons where they simply are unable to compete in CL. Its a loss loss situation for the club and Im LOVING it.

      You see, if he lies in court, he becomes someones girlfriend in prison for perjury.
      And when jury gets presented with evidence such as receipts with unreasonable amounts of money paid for lousy written gibberish riddled with spelling errors called “reports” (google it too, in fact; this site wrote about it) people will wonder how on earth is it possible to pay for that trash end product. When they read Negreiras statements about how he could help them with VAR, that theyd be better off with him in Liga and crunch some numbers such as 4 Liga victories out of 5 during “the report years” (2014-2018), how they got record amount of penalties for one team ever in La ligas history 2015-2016 and received exactly zero penalties against them during 2016-2018 they will say hey wait a minute, Im not buying this story.

      When money paid exceeds the value of what you get in exchange youre either stu.id or bribing someone.

      1. Haters of Fc Barcelona are too many. Why all the comments here are against them. Typical Spanish bias towards Barcelona

  3. Anyway, Barcelona will not fall no matter how. Biass Journalists are too many against Barcelona.viscal El Barcelona

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