The management of FC Barcelona has felt for some time that LaLiga, which is chaired by Javier Tebas, is going too far in its statements, actions and functions. The conflict, in the eyes of the current board, has existed since the club refused to adhere to the agreement with the investment fund CVC in the summer of 2021. Since then the relationship between Tebas and Joan Laporta, maximum leader of the Blaugrana entity, is practically non-existent Рthey have not spoken since November Рand, according to the opinion of Laporta and his management team, LaLiga constantly expresses its aversion and antipathy towards the Barcelona club, especially in matters related to financial fair play or the Superliga, a project that Bar̤a promotes with Real Madrid and Juventus.
Anger has reached its peak with the emergence of the Negreira case. First, because Tebas publicly considered that Laporta should resign. And then, due to information published by La Vanguardia in its edition yesterday in which it is established that LaLiga, the private prosecution in the case, sent a letter to the Prosecutor’s Office in which it wrongly incriminated former presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell.
Barcelona reacted yesterday to this news with a forceful statement in which it expresses its “indignation”, asks Javier Tebas for a public apology and also demands his resignation, in addition to alerting the rest of the clubs “for practices that do not they have no fit in the functions” of a position like the one he holds.
These practices refer to the letter that Tebas sent to the Prosecutor’s Office, which included a handwritten document by Josep Contreras, who was a member of the social committee of Barça, now dead. The employer had access to this document through the summary of the so-called Soule case, for which the former president of the Spanish Football Federation Ãngel MarÃa Villar is accused, in which LaLiga also acts as a private prosecution and in which Contreras is one of the investigated .
As revealed by this newspaper, Tebas mistakenly linked in this writing names and surnames that appeared in the Contreras document with former presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, as well as with Román Gómez Ponti, former head of the club’s legal services. Despite the fact that Tebas assured in the letter that “this part does not have any speculative spirit, nor does this letter suppose the exercise of specific accusation against anyone”, he did point out that “the names and surnames recorded in the handwritten note can match the names and/or surnames of certain former FCB executives†and deduced that the three could be involved in real estate operations and movements in “financial institutions and investment banksâ€.
However, as this newspaper explained, the Contreras family has clarified that the true identity of the people mentioned in the document has nothing to do with the former presidents of Barça. They point out that Josep Contreras’ document was written decades ago and that the names indicated by Tebas refer to Emilio Román, Contreras’ lawyer, and Ramon Rosell, accountant of his companies, while Josep Maria was an employee of Banca Catalana responsible of the deceased’s accounts to the entity.
Hours after the publication of the news, LaLiga reacted by sending a burofax to this newspaper demanding a rectification because they claim that the information “seriously harms my honor and reputation”, with reference to its president, Javier Tebas.
