In the open investigation of Case of Negreira 21 referees have been questioned by the Civil Guard so far and La Vanguardia has access to their answers, in which they forcefully deny any influence of the Catalan club’s payments on José María Enriquez Negreira for 17 years. “Not at all”, “zero”, “it’s very difficult to break a referee” or “impossible” were some of the referees’ responses to the question “Did it influence Negreira in your decisions? Does it change the competition?”
In their responses to the Civil Guard, 21 referees acknowledged that they did not know Negreira had been paid. Barça and that it is solely dedicated to communicating promotions and demotions to members
Anthony Mateu Lahoz He was clear and said that “it is impossible” already Negreira had the capacity to change the competition. Today’s commentator recalled that there were “situations difficult to referee” where “some club or other benefited”. Furthermore, in the case of Barça, also hit him. Naa 2014 Copa del Rey final between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in Di María’s 1-0 draw, his position was “tight,” he said and later recalled that he disallowed Messi’s goal against Atlético de Madrid at the Camp Nou in the last match he favored. the League 2013-14, or for example, that he gave a non-existent penalty to Lucas Digne at Las Palmas. “This is the first penalty called against Barça, and not, after a long time,” highlighted Mateu, in statements to which La Vanguardia has access.
Other former referees, such as David Mediapoint out that “it’s probably a relationship of years thinking maybe how bad it’s going to be for the club but I consider that it didn’t cause any influence on the arbitration panel. I don’t really know the specifics either reason for those payments. I think that the Barcelona “he threw away the money.” Iturralde Gonzálezfor its part, contemplated that “the payments to Negreira were used to enrich Barcelona’s managers”, while Daniel Ocón maintained that “they cannot influence the competition”.
Source: La Verdad
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