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Ernesto Valverde, coach of Athletic Bilbao

THE PROSECUTOR ASKS THEM AS WITNESSES

Luis Enrique and Ernesto Valverde could be witnesses in the 'Negreira case'

Published:13/03/2023 - 18:22h

Updated:13/03/2023 - 18:22h

According to information from 'El País', the Prosecutor's Office has requested that the two former FC Barcelona coaches testify as witnesses in the 'Negreira case', to find out the position of both on the arbitration reports

Calendar of FC Barcelona

The 'case Negreira' continue leaving novelties and designations against of the FC Barcelona. After it knew that the Fiscalía had formalised the complaint by a crime continued, by sportive fraud, disloyal administration and falsity in the mercantile document. The complaint still has not been admitted, but from the Fiscalía continues the work.

An information of 'El País' has desvelado that the intention of the Fiscalía would be that so much Ernesto Valverde, current trainer of the Athletic Club, as Luis Enrique, exseleccionador national, present like witnesses. Both trained to the Barça between 2016 and 2018,p bow in which it concentrates more than all the 'case Negreira' and pretend to know the opinion of both and the use of the reports by which paid the Catalan entity.

The referee's reports of the FC Barcelona

It is worth it to remember that, in the communiqué of the Barça issued on 15 February on the 'case Negreira', the club affirmed that it had hired "in the happened the services of a consultor technical external, the one who supplied, in format video, technical reports referred to players of inferior categories of the Spanish State for the technical office of the Club" and that "the relation with the own external provider expanded with technical reports related with the professional arbitration to end to complement information required by the technical body of the first team and of the filial, an usual practice in the clubs of professional football".

In the Fiscalía understand, especially with the second point, that the reports related with the professional arbitration recaían in hands of the trainers, those who were in constant communication with the players. Thus, they quote to the two attendants, in this period, of the Barcelona bench. Luis Enrique was until the 2017 and Valverde was his relief.

Ernesto Valverde already has pronounced on the 'case Negreira'

The current trainer of the Athletic already has pronounced in several opportunities on the relation between the Barça and the exvicepresidente of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA): "I do not remember reports of the referees, is something common: the statistics that has the referee that touches you... Some assessment that do us, in the last parties how has gone us, if they take out more cards, reports that arrive to Aspiazu (his second). In Barcelona neither looked them, and did not know neither that existed".

Later, Valverde recognised that "I am thinking.... We win the league with 14 points on the second and 17-19 on the third, do not agree me. And the Glass win it with a 5-0 to the Seville in the final. I do not think that there was a lot of discussion on the one who was the best instrument this season".