He did address it
Bartomeu: "Some of the players have contracts that improved every year because our revenue also increased proportionally. La Liga's salary limit was getting higher every season, so it allowed us for more room."
LOL
Yeah, as if giving to x player from 100% to 500% above his market value and the corresponding salary he would get at any other top club
has anything to do with the (doubt it's true) small increase in yearly revenue
Shady deals like Rosell's case is the kind of thing that alerts Spanish prosecutors, also the notorious tax evasions in Spanish football. In Barto's case we have mainly overspending club budget on everything from restaraunts, journalists to player salaries, which is not a criminal act, but rather extremely stupid and selfish.
Not really sure...
Tax evasion is not the only illegal thing one can do
There might be grounds of him and his board "not having the best interest of the club" in mind, which can be justified if they KNOWINGLY blew the books up -> if it can be proven that the club came close to litigation due to their actions
And at the same time, there is the other factor of them actually making shady deals:
when actually pursuing at the same time personal interests, or using the club to do their business
Remember the Paulinho transfer? What about Fernandez? and I am forgetting a couple more here
