The president of Barcelona, Joan Laportaplayed in part of the Assembly with his response to a partner’s question about why he increased his salary José María Enriquez Negreiravice president of Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) during his first term. The coach once again cleared the ball by speaking about his club’s intentions at that time, while the matter was still under investigation.
“Why did Mr. Laporta and the executives increase the annual payment to these people to 7.5 million euros,” the associate asked. “Sir tinthe 7.5 million you are talking about is inaccurate, it is what was paid to certain companies over a period of 20 years, it was not one year. And it affected different presidencies, those that preceded me and those that followed me. The services were paid for by Arbitration Technical Support. It was advice, scouting national and international,” Laporta began in his response.
“Also regarding the recording and analysis of matches and if there was at some point an increase in the price of these services, it was because there was a need to report on World Cups and other competitions as well as in the analysis of rival teams. What is most important in the case of Negreira is that they wanted to condemn us before judging us and it was all a media strategy and that of our most direct rivals to discredit us”, concluded Laporta about the bonus to Negreira.
🎙️Why have annual payments to Negreira increased to 7.5 million?
🗣️ Laporta responds to partners:
💸 “If there has been an increase, it is because reports were made during World Cups or Europeans.” pic.twitter.com/Ux9IEsYXIA
– El Chiringuito Television (@elchiringuitotv) October 19, 2024
Laporta talks about Negreira and the cave concept
This is Laporta’s speech: “To continue living this reality, we must remain more united than ever and maintain institutional stability. Because we are fighting against everything and everyone, it is not an exercise in victimization, it is reality, we feel it every day. We see it with the Negreira case, where they stretch the gum and it appears when we are well. There are also people who don’t want us to win, it makes them angry.
“To defend ourselves we cannot show weakness, they want to destroy us. This is why I do not share any of the apocalyptic predictions of those who are not there or expected. They want to create a reality that does not exist and this weakens them. And we cannot show weakness, we must be strong to fight against those who want to destroy us. “I mean the cave,” he remarked.
And Laporta’s speech to his members was a song of a perfection that does not exist in his club. For President Culé everything is beautiful. And for this reason, he accused the “cave” of trying to destroy the culé entity. Another demonstration of Laporta’s weakness as president.
