2023-04-20 20:25:46
Joan Laporta traveled this Thursday to Slovenia, the country of Aleksander Ceferin, to meet with the president of UEFA in fear of a sanction from the highest European body against Barcelona for the ‘Negreira case’. The president of the Barça club wanted to explain first-hand to Ceferin the million-dollar payments from Barça to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), with the aim of preventing UEFA from imposing a sporting punishment on the culé entity until there is a judicial resolution by ordinary courts.
The ‘Negreira case’ threatens Barcelona with its exclusion from European competitions for a season and Laporta wants to build bridges with Ceferin, after the UEFA president described the scandal as “extremely serious”. “It is one of the most serious situations I have seen in football,” said Ceferin, although he wanted to recall that the disciplinary committee of the continental body investigating the “Negreira case” is “independent.”
After his appearance on Monday at the Camp Nou, where Laporta did not offer convincing explanations and on Wednesday at the LaLiga headquarters, where he also did not clarify the reasons for the payments to Enríquez Negreira and did not convince any club, the Barça leader rejected before Ceferin that Barça has bought referees and has committed a crime of sports corruption. After the relations between Barcelona and UEFA have deteriorated as a result of the Super League project that the culé club intends together with Real Madrid and Juventus and exposing himself to a sanction that would be very harmful, Laporta has been forced to approach to Ceferin, in his own house.
Laporta traveled to London in the morning on a private plane to meet with the agent Pini Zahavi and later traveled to Slovenia to meet personally with the UEFA president. Already on Monday, very concerned about the threat that weighs on his club, the top leader of Barça had a conciliatory tone with Ceferin during his press conference. «Mr. Ceferin is acting prudently and responsibly. He has not fallen into the trap of Mr. Thebes. At least for now. The ‘inputs’ that I have from the UEFA investigation is that it will be pronounced when we are judged, “he assured at the Camp Nou.
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