Why didn't UEFA 'punish' Barça for the 'Negreira case'?

The FC Barcelona has closed one of the folders that more concerned him this summer: His participation in the phase of groups of the Champions League 2023-2024. They had won the note to participate in the draw, after winning the past edition of LaLiga, but the investigation by the 'case Negreira' seeded the fear in the blaugrana because it existed the possibility that the UEFA dictaminara that the club was breaking the regulation.

The procedure of the organism rector of the European football began the past 23 March, with Juan Samuel Leuba and Mirjan Koller to charge of a thorough investigation to treat to understand the relation of the Catalan group with the ex vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Enríquez Negreira, by almost two decades. The club paid around seven million euros by his services, but in any moment -as they have aimed Joan Laporta and company- was to alter parties or be favoured by the referee's group.

The Barça has not been sanctioned by the UEFA

This Friday confirmed that the FC Barcelona had been exonerated by the UEFA and that it will be able to participate with normality in the Champions League to try fulfil his aim of 'compete' and arrive far in the tournament, something that has been impossible in the last years. In any case, have desvelado all the keys by which have decided not sanctioning to the blaugrana by the 'case Negreira', although they continue the investigations in Spain.

Of agreement to an information to which has had access 'Sportive World', in the report that have elaborated the two researchers have aimed that, after the corresponding studies and the questionnaire (of 70 questions) that answered the Barça, do not exist proofs that the club have bought sometime to the referees. Thus, they are not in the capacity to put a sentence and will expect to that it justifies it Spanish determine the culpability or no of the Catalans to see if they have to take part.

The Barça has not broken the regulation

Although the decision of the instructors still is not entirely definite, because it has to be ratified during the next week by the Committee of Appeal of the UEFA, in the Barça reigns the tranquility because they understand that the report will be sufficient to show that they have not broken the article 4.2 of the regulation of the Champions League, by which was being 'signalled'.

The same, establishes that "if, on the base of all the circumstances in fact and of the information that it has, the UEFA concludes to his whole satisfaction that a club has been involved direct and/or indirectly, from the entrance in force of the section 3 of the article 50 of the Statutes of the UEFA, that is to say, on 27 April 2007, in any activity headed to organise or influence in the result of a party to national or international level, the UEFA will declare to said club no eligible to participate in the competition. Said inelegibilidad only will be effective during a season futbolística".