- Laporta’s press conference on payment of referees scandal.
🚨 Joan Laporta: "We won everything thanks to the effort and talent from our players” #FCB 🏆
❗️Joan Laporta: "Barcelona suffers from a gigantic campaign of damaging a reputation that has nothing to do with reality. In it’s 125 year history, Barça have been a model of fair play on and off the pitch” #FCB 🔵🔴
❗️Joan Laporta: “When the case came out, there were immediate responses from some medias to damage our image. It's not a coincidence” #FCB
🚨 Joan Laporta: "Barcelona has NEVER carried out any action that had the purpose, intention, to cheat through a competition to have a sporting advantage” #FCB 🚫
🚨 Joan Laporta: “Justice said it themselves, they never had any proof of us buying referees. Nobody could prove anything either because there was NOTHING” #FCB 🚫
🚨 Joan Laporta: “Nobody has found any proof” #FCB 🚫
🚨 Joan Laporta: “Barça got refereeing reports but that is not illegal. There are invoices, everything is in the club's accounting books. We did it clearly and transparently. We haven't hidden anything” #FCB 🚫📑
❗️Joan Laporta: "629 reports and 43 video reports. These are all the [refereeing technical] reports we have, they exist unlike those who said they had disappeared” #FCB 📑🚨
❗️Joan Laporta: "An investigation was launched and it explained to us that we did NOTHING to get punished by the justice, a real job was done. Now we have to let justice do it’s job. I am convinced that Barca will be cleared of all suspicion” #FCB 🔵🔴
🚨 Joan Laporta: “Everyone started judging Barça even before the judiciary did” #FCB 🔴🗣️
📸| Boxes with documents that Laporta will present today.
Via: @DBR8 @sport
‼️ Joan Laporta: "Javier Tebas is irresponsible. He lacks professionalism, it's obvious. He constantly fuels controversy, he even sent FALSE documents” #FCB 🔵🔴
❗️Joan Laporta: “I thank RFEF President Rubiales and FIFA President Infantino for not joining the campaign against Barcelona. They are waiting for the court's decision” #FCB 🤝
🚨 Joan Laporta: "NO campaign will change us. Barcelona did nothing wrong. And all the transactions that we have done are legitimate and have been subject to tax examination through correct financial transactions. We are FAR from any suspicion of corruption” #FCB 🚫
‼️ Joan Laporta: “We reserve the right to seek financial compensation. The compensation we will demand could be astronomical” #FCB 💰🚨
🚨 More: “For decades, the heads of committees were either former socis or former directors of Real Madrid” #FCB 🔴
‼️ Joan Laporta: “Real Madrid has appeared, a club favored by refereeing decisions” #FCB 🔴
‼️ Joan Laporta: “For Real Madrid to come out and say that they feel attacked seems to me an unprecedented exercise in cynicism [suspicion]. I hope this trial unmasks them” #FCB 🔴
🚨 More: “What Real Madrid has done is very bad” #FCB 🔴
❗️Joan Laporta: "Barça paid technical reports for 18 years, you have to put it in context. These reports HAD to be made, they were made by competent people in the industry. The investigation found 623 reports, 43 video reports - and these are just from 2014-2018” #FCB 📑🚨
‼️ Joan Laporta: "Negreira couldn't influence our matches, he didn't even have the ability to choose the referees” #FCB 🚫
❗️Joan Laporta: “Why did the payments increase in the final years? Because there are more of them, because football competitions have become stronger and fiercer” #FCB 📑
🚨 JUST IN: Joan Laporta showed proof they they ONLY got technical refereeing reports, which is considered as a normal practice. #FCB 📑✅
❗️Joan Laporta: “Negreira's son has worked for several clubs, for the Spanish FA, for Luis Aragones. It's not illogical to ask him to work for Barca [for technical refereeing reports]” #FCB 🚫
🚨 Joan Laporta: “Nobody from the club has ever told Negreira that we were looking for neutrality in refereeing. It was just a personal opinion that was given to the IRS, NO proof. We paid for the technical reports and only for that” #FCB 📑
‼️ Joan Laporta: “I notice you are repeating questions. So I repeat, the €7M we paid over the course of 18 years was for technical reports and we know that all clubs do the same thing. Prices go up over the years” #FCB 📑🚨
‼️ Joan Laporta: “Javier Tebas did an irresponsible act and tried to destroy Barcelona's reputation - he always says a number of irresponsible statements. He says, for example, that requesting such technical reports is not possible, which is WRONG” #FCB 🚫🚨
‼️ Joan Laporta: “UEFA wants to act against Barcelona because we support the Super League project. Ceferin made a number of offensive statements and I ask him to be responsible and wise, unlike Tebas” #FCB 🔴
🚨 Joan Laporta, when asked about being excluded from next year’s UCL: “There is no crime done by us, we will be exempt and we will continue playing in Europe as normal” #FCB 🚫
‼️ Joan Laporta: “UEFA cannot sanction Barça if the Justice considers us as innocent” #FCB 🚫
🚨 Joan Laporta: “I *guarantee* you, and I have shown you, that these payments [for refereeing reports] were done through legitimate legal processes” #FCB 🤝✅
🚨 Joan Laporta: "The content of these reports is purely technical referee advice. We will take them to court. For Example: match notes for the 14/15 season.” #FCB 📑
‼️ Joan Laporta: “You know why people can’t say Barça influenced games? Because it's not true and they can't prove it. We will PROSECUTE all those who tried to tarnish our image” #FCB 🚫🚨
‼️ Joan Laporta: “We’re still supporting the Super League — NOT for Madrid or Juventus, but for our own good” #FCB ⚽️
‼️ Joan Laporta: “I’m here to give you facts, not opinions” #FCB 🗣️🔴
🚨 Joan Laporta: “The press came out with information that we tried to influence the referees. It's crazy. Negreira said he THINKS we were looking for sporting neutrality although nobody from the club ever told him this” #FCB 🔴
‼️ Joan Laporta: “We have already, and we will, taken action against people who exaggerate their statements against Barcelona. We won’t allow anyone to offend our club” #FCB 🔵🔴🗣️
‼️ Joan Laporta: “We want to claim damages that can rise up to crazy amounts” #FCB 💰🚨
‼️ Joan Laporta: "We all know Real Madrid have been favored by referees historically, that they complain, it's madness, hypocrisy. We will continue to defend ourselves” #FCB ⚔️
‼️ Joan Laporta: "I have plenty of energy to defend the club. If they want to attack me, let them do so” #FCB ⚔️
‼️ Joan Laporta: “Javier Tebas is a hypocrite, lacks of wisdom and professionalism. He is obsessed with Barcelona and is behind this popular campaign against the club” #FCB 🔴🚨
🚨 More: “The president of the league is acting without prudence or responsibility. The hypothesis that Barça bought referees is false. It seems wrong to me that he makes false assessments” #FCB 🔴
❗️Joan Laporta: “We are analyzing everything & we will see what we can do against whoever spreads lies in the media about the club” #FCB ⚖️🚨
🚨 JUST IN: Joan Laporta confirms they’ve already filed cases against 20 people for tarnishing the club’s image. #FCB ⚖️✅
..and the press conference is done — making a summary about it now 🏁🚨
🚨RECAP | LAPORTA'S PRESS CONFERENCE
🏁 Summary:
• Barça paid €7M for technical referee reports, NOT referee decisions (common practice)
• Club has 629 reports & 43 video reports
• ESL on
• Laporta thinks Tebas is a hypocrite & that Madrid have been historically favored
• Guarantee it was all legal
• Will request damages (worth a crazy amount)
• No UCL sanction if justice confirms innocence
• Action taken against 20 people so far
• FIFA/RFEF waiting for the judge
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