First thing that came to mind when I saw the news and the statement was when pep got mad riled up when a journalist asked him about payments from overseas haha. He got so mad he started speaking jibberish.
On a more serious note now.. just like the qatar "bribery". It takes two to tongo as they say.. the thing with corruption, it necessitates two participants.. the giver and the receiver.. the manipulative typical western discourse : omission and linguistic ellipsis of the recipient of money (the corrupt participant number 2) and the full focus, agenda-oriented, on the giver of "bribery", incidentally the Arabs, Russians and the axe of evil. How less evil is pep, and those recipients of money under the table, willingly and consciously. Pep, mancini and the players and even the companies who receive money. Those who took millions from qatar ... how come we don't hear of them , their nationalities and their representations and the ideologies to which they pertain.?
The answer is long but the short one is : selective sentencing via linguistics ellipsis. We won't mention the receivers of money, we will mention the givers a million times because we get to decide who is the evil-doers and who are not irrespective of the objective reality.
This is ladies and gentlemen how language controls the unprotected green mind.