The best way to buy a referee is to not notice it. The second best way is to make it very noticeable. The third is that you buy a referee who isn’t, like getting a photo with Fernando Esteso or asking a Mango employee if they have size XXL.
The best way to buy Negreira was to go unnoticed. The option failed due to Barça’s nihilistic impulse to want to be Bayern Munich and end up being Pepe Gotera and Otilio, the other two remained. The first, which was very noticeable, was done half-heartedly. They suspected that the referees always favored Real Madrid, but not because it was a big team, but because it was a face. Things around here are always that simple. Barcelona supposedly wanted to do what the bad guys did and, after wiping their mouths with a Unicef ??shirt, after the umpteenth oyster and cava embargo at the Botafumeiro, decided to pay according to reports, which is the same as when you said at home that you had spent your money on photocopies.
The reason why Barça allegedly decided to buy arbitration decisions at the time of the best Barça in history is an unfathomable mystery. There is a lot of talk about the Russian soul, but what about the Culer soul. When it came to buying referees, they should have done it in the era of Fortes, Kornéiev or Roberto Dinamite, but not when the club had Messi, Guardiola, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets and other extraordinary players. The gift of opportunity didn’t go down well with Can Barça either (think that Archibald was chosen here instead of Hugo Sánchez and we liquidated Cruyff when Zidane was in charge).
As it is an example of a clean club and immaculate country all over the planet, from one end to the other, the alleged referee’s payment was made through transfers. To the referee, to his son, to a society, in short, you already know how things are done. And everything declared to the Treasury in the box of Bribes, Reports and other things. It’s likely that the money for Negreira ended up in a report, in his pocket or somewhere else. It would be strange because everyone knows that at Can Barça something else is not allowed, but indecent people are not allowed. But who knows
The third option is that you thought you were buying someone and paid him for a function that is impossible for him: conditioning the work of twenty referees, for example. In this case, you have not committed a crime, as it is impossible for the effect you are paying for to occur. In that case, you’re an idiot. Although it would be much more if the money were not from partners.
