Javier Tebas, the president of LaLiga, attacked Real Madrid and Barcelona today with his typical vehemence at a LaLiga event in which the Spanish football association presented a report on the socioeconomic impact of Spanish professional football in the 2020 season. twenty-one. The current situation led Tebas to focus his statements on criticizing Barcelona for the Negreira case and Real Madrid for the fandom on its television.
Regarding the accusation against Barcelona for the Negrerira case, known this morning, the president of the League was prolix in his response: “I have to see the argument. Bribery is when a crime is committed against a public official. Maybe they consider that referees are officials. I don’t know, I have to assess it legally as a lawyer. I think what happened with the Civil Guard in the Technical Committee of Referees is as a consequence of the fact that LaLiga, as a private accusation, requested that the Federation had to accredit a series of evidence to the instruction; the assessment that was made to UEFA, a survey that was made to the referees and some other questions that the Federation or the CTA was not contributing. Fundamentally and as a response to our letter and in order to continue the investigations, the entry in the register”.
And he continued: “I emphasize that we are practically the only private accusation that is giving impetus to the Negreira issue. A lot is said by certain ‘portacoces’ that LaLiga does nothing and we are the only ones who are providing writings, contributing our knowledge of the sector to push. There are others who are in the private accusation, such as Real Madrid, which made the document of appearance and a document preventing it from being set aside as a private accusation, which was what Bartomeu requested, and has not done anything else. Although it seems that his spokespersons are very interested but he has not done anything else,” he insisted
Asked if Barcelona deserves a sanction, Tebas commented: “We do not have the power to sanction because they occurred at the administrative level. I already explained it. If we had been able to intervene, we would have opened a file. Definitely. We have not been able to do it because it is a subject that is prescribed. We will see what sanction it may have when the criminal sphere ends. The laws cannot be made retroactive on this issue, it is a dysfunction of the Sports Law. It should be corrected. In these cases of trying to influence sporting results, the statute of limitations is very short because it takes time to emerge.” He later commented that he is in favor of implementing a disciplinary code with points subtraction or even administrative relegations, as in Italy (it happened with Juventus and AC Milan).
For Javier Tebas, the Negreira case is very serious: “I think there are indications of irregular payments. It will have to be clarified if the intention, which I find no other than to influence to have better results. If it’s not that, it’s very close.”
And he went further: “Of course I am concerned about the Negreira case, like the Vinícius case or the Rubiales case. It damages the reputation of our football. The Negreira case adds up. On this issue we must continue investigating to clearly clarify the level of influence in promotions and relegations and in (arbitrary) appointments. That is what is being worked on. The mere fact of trying to influence is already punishable in the criminal field. The judge said it in the order from a few weeks ago. “That is already sports corruption. Paying Negreira from a club is a very serious irregularity. It is a crime if it is to influence.”
Regarding the way of acting of Real Madrid TV, the club’s official channel, Javier Tebas commented that “I do not dare to say that it is adulterous (as Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, the CEO of Atlético, said yesterday), which I do say clearly. is that Real Madrid Television is not in the Fair Play that should prevail in a competition. All the previous reports that are made to the referee group with terms like “brutal”, “incredible” and some adjectives… They almost take blank and black. And some plays that were even debatable. At least the Sports Fair Play is being lacking, the public service that that television must have. From there to adulterating the competition there is still a part. I don’t know the intentions that Real Madrid has Television and Real Madrid with those images.”
And he added: “What I have to say is that Real Madrid Television is a channel subject to administrative concession, it is given for a public service. When it was awarded, Madrid would hand over its report and the report would talk about the values ??of football. My question “It’s whether Real Madrid is using him for that or not,” he said.
The fact that Madrid does not allow television stations to interview their players also angers Javier Tebas: “We have asked to improve the product for television. Now suddenly Real Madrid won’t let us because they have had a ruling in their favor that is not final. It should not be interpreted as Real Madrid does and go down the middle street. “We are not going to stop defending the rights we have, no matter how much one is Real Madrid or Florentino Pérez,” he stated.
