serghei
Senior Member
I think 'I can help you with the VAR' kind of places what this guys 'services' were quite well.
What he says is not proof. Lying is easy and everybody does it to gain an advantage.
I think 'I can help you with the VAR' kind of places what this guys 'services' were quite well.
Unless a couple or more actual referees flips and admits to favoring Barca under his instructions or being approached by him on the subject the prosecution won't be able to prove much here.
There is enough proof to suggest that there were no real services actually rendered. Paying an active ref in an important leadership position millions under the table is absolutely corruption.Serghei has a point. They must provide proof that the payments were bribes, and not just allege so.
One thing you would expect is that somewhere in the sports law that sports clubs or institutions are not allowed to engage 3rd party deals by companies owned by players or referee's because of conflict of interest.
But I guess no such thing exists in Spain considering Gerard Pique company brokered the Copa Del Rey deal which ended up paying Barcelona (his club at the time) more than half of the other teams. But atleast there was proof of services received, though, still you can see there is a conflict here.
Anyways, with no basic statute's saying x can not contract y because of z, then there still needs to be proof- even if it quacks and does look like a duck.
Without it, we're no different than a professional gambler owning Brighton or a betting company owning Brentford.
The other question is how does this issue even initiate. You can watch a Madrid game for yeeeeaaars and see something is not quite right, or the pre and post VAR cases for Madrid after Florentino's public intervention. Or the call versus Atleti that won them the league in the final fixture to win the league in 2014.
You can see that refeering has been dodgy as shit in Spain for years, that this is not an isolated situation. But just like Conor Benn, we we're stupid enough to get caught.
There is enough proof to suggest that there were no real services actually rendered. Paying an active ref in an important leadership position millions under the table is absolutely corruption.
Valverde already stated that his team didn't receive any reports from this guy when he was in charge, and if the manager isn't seeing these reports then who is? The answer is they never existed.
Additionally, they state multiple payments invoiced to Barca had no description even attached to them and were there simply as transfers.
Sorry but I don't buy it and doubt many other people will either. Millions for video analysis under the table, to an active VP of ref committee, that nobody can account for actually receiving, and that conveniently stopped when this guy lost his position.
Come on... that's not credible at all. The guy is grumpy the club is not paying him anymore, he has all the interest in the world to throw dirt at the club. Guy is a conman.
Come on... that's not credible at all. The guy is grumpy the club is not paying him anymore, he has all the interest in the world to throw dirt at the club. Guy is a conman.
Serghei has a point. They must provide proof that the payments were bribes, and not just allege so.
One thing you would expect is that somewhere in the sports law that sports clubs or institutions are not allowed to engage 3rd party deals by companies owned by players or referee's because of conflict of interest.
But I guess no such thing exists in Spain considering Gerard Pique company brokered the Copa Del Rey deal which ended up paying Barcelona (his club at the time) more than half of the other teams. But atleast there was proof of services received, though, still you can see there is a conflict here.
Anyways, with no basic statute's saying x can not contract y because of z, then there still needs to be proof- even if it quacks and does look like a duck.
Without it, we're no different than a professional gambler owning Brighton or a betting company owning Brentford.
The other question is how does this issue even initiate. You can watch a Madrid game for yeeeeaaars and see something is not quite right, or the pre and post VAR cases for Madrid after Florentino's public intervention. Or the call versus Atleti that won them the league in the final fixture to win the league in 2014.
You can see that refeering has been dodgy as shit in Spain for years, that this is not an isolated situation. But just like Conor Benn, we we're stupid enough to get caught.
We're absolutely f*cked if we get relegate due to this (which we should if it is confirmed what it looks like).
We just mortgaged our future revenue guaranteed by our tv rights.
The timing couldn't be worse. It would more or less be the end of the club as we know it.