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MADRID DID NOT SIGN THE RELEASE

All LaLiga clubs publicly show their "repudiation" of the 'Negreira Case'

Published:21/02/2023 - 14:17h

Updated:22/02/2023 - 12:40h

The 14 First and Second Division clubs that make up the Delegate Commission have expressed their rejection of the 'Negreira Case' and indicate that LaLiga is continuing efforts to clarify the facts

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The controversy on the payments of the FC Barcelona to the company of the ex referee and otrora vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríquez Negreira, continues increasing. The fact has woken up the indignation of the 14 clubs of the First and Second Division that integrate the Commission Delegated. These have issued a communiqué of conjoint way after a first attempt frustrated, warning on the gravity of the facts.

The clubs signatories of the document have been the Athletic of Madrid, Raise UD, Seville FC, Real Betis, Real Sociedad, Cádiz CF, Getafe CF, Villarreal CF, CD Tenerife, Sportive Alavés, sports club Eibar, Or.D. The Palms, C.D. Lugo And sports club Huesca, expressing his repudiate in front of the sucedido when considering them done that they could trastocar seriously the integrity and the transparency of the competition in the Spanish football.

The communiqué of the clubs

The pronouncement initiates remembering the actions that has taken the patronal on the case: "LaLiga has exposed to all the members of the Commission Delegated the different performances that has made and is making, between which include : a writing to the Fiscalía as yesterday it announced the president; communications with the data and information that LaLiga considers pertinent to different organisms, Spaniards and Europeans; and more performances that in this moment LaLiga considers that it does not have to make public not to prejudice the investigation".

Likewise, they have left of self-evident his interests on what really could have occurred: "In the day of yesterday, during the Board of Division, the majority of the Clubs of LaLiga expressed his deep worry by this case, that consider of maximum gravity, by what the proposal of a conjoint communication received the unanimous support of all the clubs of LaLiga SmartBank and all the clubs of LaLiga Santander to exception of two, those who showed objections to this conjoint communiqué by different reasons".

In such sense, have manifested his more conclusive repudiate and urge to the competent organisms to tackle the subject with celerity: "LaLiga and his Commission Delegated refuse and repudiate the facts, and are deeply concerned and working actively by esclarecer any irregularity that have been able to produce around the 'case Negreira', already was of sportive character or of any another type".

Of equal way, sustain that from the patronal are carrying out all the necessary efforts and will take the measures that consider pertinent in case to present some irregularity: LaLiga is following very closely this subject and will act with firmness inside the competitions and limits that allows him the Law. The Commission Delegated backs firmly the performances of LaLiga attending to the work showed and carried out during these years for preserving the integrity of the competition".