New scenes in the Negrera and Barcelona case related to the referees.. Here are the details
The chapters of the “Negrera” and Barcelona referee case continued, after the Spanish media revealed this time the arbitration reports that the “Catalan” club was obtaining before and after each match, a case that has gripped the Spanish media in recent weeks, after the document seized by the police in The home of a former team official.
And the newspaper “Mundo Deportivo” published, on Wednesday, new details about those arbitration reports that the Barcelona team was receiving before and after the matches, which include digital statistics on arbitral decisions, whether with or against the “Catalan” club, for analysis and study.
According to the Spanish newspaper, each report included the presence of 10 pages that study arbitration cases case by case with minutes and their impact on the course of the match and the comments of the referee and assistant referees as well.
The pages published by most Spanish newspapers in general also included details about the referees’ behavior during the matches: whether he spoke a lot or a little, whether he was biased in his decisions or not, if he applied the principle of preference for the ball carrier, if he calmly bypassed the protests, his relationship with the players and coaches during Matches, and the final report of the balance between advantages and disadvantages.
In all, the newspaper presented in its report the details of Barcelona’s dealings with these reports to benefit from them in terms of statistics and the personalities of the referees in general, in order to understand the method and how to deal with each referee separately in the matches, in addition to knowing the validity of the decisions he takes, whether he is with or against the club. “The Catalan”.
On the other hand, the Spanish “EFE” agency published some documents related to this case, including those related to the tasks assigned to the former vice-chairman of the Referees Committee in Spain, Jose Maria Enriquez Negrera, and his son, and the surprise was that one of the most prominent of them was “following up on arbitral cases in the matches of the Real team.” Madrid”.
According to the documents, there is a recommendation dated May of 2016 for the “Catalan” club, which included “taking great care of his relationship (the club) with the referee, Jesús Manzano, because of his young age, and his future in arbitration, according to which he will manage many important matches for several seasons.
This came in one of the reports on the referees prepared by the former vice-chairman of the Referees Committee, and his son, in exchange for large sums of money paid by Barcelona, what constituted a case of alleged sports corruption in which the Barcelona judge is investigating the Catalan club and its former presidents, Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell.
Also among the papers, information appeared about one of the Catalan “derbys” between Barcelona and Espanyol, and in that match the referee, Khel Manzano, was chosen to manage it, as Negrera confirmed, according to the information, that the matter was related to the referee with the most prominent future in Spanish football, although he is in that The time was well appreciated, and his form was good.
The Public Prosecutor had charged the “Catalan” club and its former presidents, Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, during their trial for paying alleged millions to former referee Jose Maria Enriquez Negrera, on charges of corruption, improper management and forgery of documents.
It is noteworthy that the accusations came after the investigations conducted by the Barcelona Prosecutor about a year ago, on suspicion of providing money to Negrira, estimated at about 7 million euros, from the “Catalan” club, to the company owned by the latter, in exchange for providing oral advice that may be suspicious to the club.
