The Board of Directors of Real Madrid, meeting urgently this Sunday morning, agreed, as expected, to appear in the case of the Negreira case as soon as the complaint by the Prosecutor’s Office is admitted. Until the announcement of the call for the Board of Directors was produced yesterday, the white club was the only one of all those in the League that had put itself in profile and, together with Barcelona, ??the only one that had not signed a statement from the employers presided over by Javier Tebas demanding to get to the bottom of the matter and debug responsibilities.
In a statement posted on its website at 1:30 p.m., the white club assures that “the Board of Directors of Real Madrid C.F., at its meeting held today, has learned of the serious accusations made by the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office against FC Barcelona, ??two of its presidents, Josep María Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, and the former directors Albert Soler and Óscar Grau, on the basis of potential crimes, among others, of corruption in the sports field, within the framework of relations established by said club with who was vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríquez Negreira”.
And he continues: “Real Madrid expresses its deep concern about the seriousness of the facts and reiterates its full confidence in the action of justice and has agreed that, in defense of its legitimate interests, it will appear in the proceedings as soon as the judge so open to the injured parties”, he concludes.
Madrid and Barcelona, ??as great ocean liners of Spanish football, are joined by great economic interests and future projects, the main one being the European Super League, in which they battle against UEFA, but the situation of staying out of the Negreira case It was already unsustainable for Florentino Pérez, with a social mass in turmoil and demanding in each game at the Bernabéu that his club take a step forward and join the rest of the League.
Real Madrid has spent many years, since Ángel Villar’s victory over Gerardo González in the elections for the presidency of the Spanish Federation in November 2004, denouncing through its official media a favorable arbitration treatment towards Barcelona as Villar’s payment to the Barcelona club for the treason of Laporta to the group of clubs.
Villar won that election by a difference of 20 votes and Laporta and a few similar presidents voted for the Basque leader against the mandate of the clubs, which had spoken out for supporting the one who had been general secretary of the Federation with Villar as president. . This system of favors towards Barcelona is what the Madrid media have been calling “villarato” ever since.
