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NEGREIRA CASE: THE BIGGEST CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN FOOTBALL HISTORY.
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Who is Negreira?
Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira was a former referee who officiated matches in Laliga and some European matches from the 1979 season to 1992.
He then held the position of vice President of Spain’s Referees Committee (CTA) from 1994–2018.
What is CTA?
Technical Committee of Referees is the body responsible for designating matches or promoting referees, assistant referees, match delegates etc. So vice president of CTA have all the power to rate referees and promote or demote them based on how they want.
What happened?
For nearly two decades, FC Barcelona paid companies owned by Negreira and his son over €8 million. The proof of payments are so solid that both Negreira or Barca never denied the fact about payments.
More details:
In 2018, when the club stopped paying, Negreira sent a burofax (Spain’s registered legal letter) threatening to expose irregularities. He warned he would cause “a scandal” by revealing everything he had witnessed first-hand unless payments resumed.
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Ironically this same Ribery still thinks he deserved 2013 ballondor because he scored few goals in league and had just one goal in UCL (against a Belarusian club), while Cristiano had like 70 goals..🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
🚨 Franck Ribéry on the Ballon d’Or:
"Yes, Yamal did win the World Cup and Mbappé had a big year, but Kane put up 74 goals. When a player reaches numbers like that, the debate should be simple.
If I have a vote, it’s Kane first. Then Mbappé, then Dembélé. This is Harry's year."
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🗣️ Roy Keane: “Jude Bellingham vs Croatia? It looks like a grown man playing against little children.
It’s like patting your kids on the head.
He’s such a good player and physically you can’t blame Croatia because they can’t get near him.”
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ENQUETE / Pourquoi l'Argentine 🇦🇷 joue des nations africaines ?
youtube.com/watch?v=fNhWiaP1…
Bénin, Burkina Faso, Mauritanie, Zambie : la fédération argentine invite des équipes de deuxième rang en Afrique pour garder l'intégralité des bénéfices et ne rien leur reverser
Donc, pour la dernière de Messi, l'AFA empochera des millions et son invité, le Bénin 🇧🇯, 0...
Keep the faith !
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Very optimistic and reassuring to see the comments from EPL fans under this post by a Catalan journalist. It gives you some faith in humanity.
But in Spain, it feels like the exact opposite: paying the vice president of the refereeing committee draws almost zero outrage, while denouncing the same refereeing through a club TV channel attracts far more criticism.
Spanish football journalism feels increasingly Orwellian.
As a Mexican journalist put it a few days ago, he believes his counterparts in Spanish football journalism have been corrupted and it is completely true..
"You can hold Man City to account and still admire what Pep Guardiola has done."
@GuillemBalague weighs in on Guardiola's achievements with Manchester City as financial charges loom over the club's future 👀
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Barca is charged in the Spanish courts over systemic corruption, and these two examples, perfectly illustrate what systemic corruption in Spanish football look like.
Referees who harm Madrid or favor barca gets promoted to officiate bigger and important matches..
En 2007 el árbitro Rodríguez Santiago dio como válido un gol con la mano de Messi. Diez días después fue premiado con la final de la Copa del Rey. Hoy en día sigue en el Comité Técnico de Árbitros como observador arbitral.
En 2026 el árbitro Alberola Rojas no quiso pitar un penalti a Mbappé en una jugada en la que le partieron la ceja. Tres días después fue premiado con la final de la Copa del Rey.
Equivocarse a favor del Fútbol Club Barcelona o contra el Real Madrid tiene premio. Han pasado veinte años y el método Negreira sigue vigente en el Comité Técnico de Árbitros de España.
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🚨 Jude Bellingham has 12 G/A in his last 11 games for England.
WHAT. A. PLAYER! 🔥🔥
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Barca fans will look you straight in the eye and tell you this is neither corruption nor morally wrong.
Then, in the same breath, they’ll call their rivals corrupt by showing a few pre-VAR offside calls as if that were somehow evidence of corruption.
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The Premier League does not need City & the UK does not need the UAE's money. Neither is big enough to justify bending on the punishment coming down.
Every year the PL generates over £10 billion in economic output, is projected to add £33bn over the next three seasons & will pay roughly £4.4bn in tax. Three years of the Premier League alone exceeds the UAE's entire total commitment to the UK.
Broadcast, matchday, commercial & tourism dwarf anything City contribute & it is not close. £20-30bn from the UAE is about 1-1.5% of the UK’s £2.1 trillion foreign investment. That's barely a higher rate than Lord Pannick's against the Independent Commission.
Don’t forget who needs who. The UAE needed City as a sportswashing vehicle. They need the Premier League & the UK, far more than either needs them.
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Barca-Negreira: the logic of systemic corruption.
Imagine you are a club president willing to cheat to win trophies and turn sporting success into money. Which route would you choose?
A. Pay individual referees, match after match, involving more people, multiplying the risk of exposure and leaving numerous money trails.
B. Buy influence at the top, through a refereeing official who can influence the careers of those below him.
Of course option B.
The logic of option B is simple: if referees understand that favourable treatment of one club helps their careers, the incentive is already there. Better appointments, promotions and higher earnings can become the rewards. Being overlooked or held back can become the punishment.
For example, base salary of Laliga referee is more than double of 2nd division and with each matches in first division they can make more and more money. With promotion to international status, even more.
You do not need to pay every referee or issue an explicit instruction before every match. You need a system in which referees understand what behaviour gets rewarded.
That is how systemic corruption works. And that is precisely the kind of corruption Barca stands accused of in a Spanish court.
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Barca-Negreira case explained in 6 minutes!
Source: negreiragate.com/documentos?…
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Same explained by a former referee.
Gracias a @PepeKollins, hemos vuelto a escuchar estos 89 segundos donde Iturralde explica a la perfección cómo funciona el sistema arbitral en España.
🗣️ "Subí porque alguien por detrás lo decidió a dedo. En mi época eran Villar, Victoriano, ENRÍQUEZ NEGREIRA y Urízar. Un sistema injusto y subjetivo".
🗣️ "Un árbitro de Primera cobra €300K al año, €5M en 18 años. Por ese dinero, atravieso esa puerta si hace falta".
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If City avoid punishment due to political pressure from the UAE, Premier league football is actually finished. How can people invest their own time and money into a competition that has zero integrity?
It all becomes pretty pointless.
🚨 NEW: Manchester City’s chairman privately met Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds in No 10 to discuss current and future UAE investment in Britain days before the club's guilty verdicts were announced
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Pep fails a drug test, Barca pays refs during his tenure, City case now. Who exactly is Pep Guardiola?
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1. “We didn’t cheat.”
2. “And if we cheated, it wasn’t that bad.”
3. “And if it was, cheating didn’t make much difference.”
4. “And if it did, everyone else was cheating.”
5. “And if they weren’t cheating, the rules were unfair anyway.”
6. “And even if we cheated, you only care because we beat you.”
7. “And if we beat you, we beat you on the field.”
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La Liga president Tebas says Barcelona only paid Negreira to influence promotion and demotion of referees, so it’s not 'referee buying' since the referees weren't paid directly 😂
Why is he always defending Barcelona? How much did they pay you? @Tebasjavier 🤡
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🚨 EL BARÇA ESCRIBIÓ LA LEY PARA BLINDAR SU IMPUNIDAD.
Albert Soler pasó directamente de ser alto directivo en el Barça de Bartomeu (2014-2021) a ser colocado por el Gobierno como Director General del CSD. ¿Su misión principal? Redactar la nueva Ley del Deporte.
Casualmente, amplió los plazos de prescripción para casi todos los delitos, pero dejó los "muy graves" congelados en solo tres años. La maniobra milimétrica perfecta para que el caso Negreira (que le implicaba a él mismo y a su club) prescribiera deportivamente en España y evitar el descenso.
Es el mayor atraco institucional de la historia del deporte español. Legislan a medida desde el Gobierno para salvar de la ruina al club que corrompió la competición.
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The word circus from Barca fans is hilarious.
On odd days:
“We were a super team. We didn’t need to corrupt referees to win.”
On even days:
“We didn’t win anything during the early years of the recorded payments.”
Always contradictng themselves🤣🤣🤣
Neither, by itself, establishes what the payments were actually for. A corrupt arrangement could fail to produce trophies and also a strong team could still have reasons to seek an improper advantage.
And it takes a serious moral blind spot to treat millions in payments to the sitting VP of Spain’s refereeing committee as some trivial joke that can be explained away with word circus and mental gymnastics.
Between 1990 and 1999, Barça won 6 La Liga titles, 3 Copa del Reys and 6 Spanish Super Cups, a total of 15 domestic trophies in 10 years, by far the most during that period.
Then, according to the accusations, the Negreira payments started in 2000 and for the next 9 seasons, from 2000 to 2008, Barça only won 2 La Liga titles and 2 Super Cups, with 0 Copa del Reys, just 4 domestic trophies in 9 years.
The period when these payments started was actually one of the least successful domestic periods in modern Barça history.
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Gus Fring’s impact on Albuquerque:
Providing employment to local workers.
Supported local charities and community causes.
Made substantial donations to DEA charitable events.
Donated to Walter White’s cancer treatment fund.
Shall we ignore his drug operation?
Sheikh Mansour’s impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football:
🏦 Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis
🏠 Thousands of new homes in Manchester
🏗️ Major regeneration of East Manchester
🎵 Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live arena
🏨 New hotels and commercial developments
👷 Thousands of jobs created
🏆 Bought City’s first FA Cup trophy and donated it to the National Football Museum
⚽ Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse
A legacy far bigger than football. 🩵
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So, just to clarify, the UAE are telling the British government that they're only willing to invest in Britain if they are allowed to break any rules they want? The only response should be: Bye bye, UAE.
Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5
UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter
They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information
The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain
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