He FC Barcelona It has been related to an assumption that could expose the culé entity. Apparently, the blaugranas have been linked, supposedly, to a case of possible corruption with respect to the Technical Committee of Referees. It is here where the former collegiate worked Jose Maria Enriquez Negreirawhich he received, according to reports from BE Cataloniaa payment from the azulgrana team of €1.4 million.
Apparently, said payment occurred through the consequent payment of the same amount to a company owned by the former vice president of the aforementioned committee of the RFEF from 1994 to 2018. Said company responds to the name of DASNIL 95, to which Barça disbursed 532,728 euros in 2016, 541,752 in 2017 and 318,200 in 2018. Jose María has declared before the SER and assures that there was no favorable treatment to the culé team and that the payment corresponds to an advisory job.
-Barça launches a statement about it
With regard to this recent information, Barça has been forced to respond through an official statement in which it cites the following:
“Given the information issued today in the Ser Catalunya program Què t’hi jugues, FC Barcelona, aware of the facts that the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating regarding payments made to external companies, wants to make it clear: that FC Barcelona contracted in the past the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied, in video format, technical reports referring to lower-category players in Spain for the Club’s technical secretariat.
Additionally, the relationship with the external provider itself was extended with technical reports related to professional arbitration in order to complement the information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary, a common practice in professional football clubs. Currently, this type of outsourced services falls to a professional assigned to the Soccer Area.
FC Barcelona regrets that this information appears precisely at the best sporting moment of this season. FC Barcelona will take legal action against anyone who spoils the Club’s image with possible insinuations against the entity’s reputation that may arise as a result of this information”.