This is how Laporta responded to the ten key questions

John Laporta appeared this Monday before the media to give his version of the entire Negreira case. The president gave few explanations and spent a lot of time stoking Real Madrid and Javier Tebas. There were ten key questions that the president had to answer, although there were not answers for all of them. In some of the topics he did not delve deeper and tiptoed past.

Have you bought referees?

Here the president was blunt: “The referees have not been bought or influenced by any action” He even challenged someone to present him with some evidence that there was a game in which there was a decision that favored Barcelona for this reason. “Because there isn’t,” added the president.

Where are the analytics?

Laporta appeared at the press conference with four boxes with documents. In them, according to himself, there were 629 reports from referees, 43 cds and four reports from players: “It is clear that he was paid for some reports that are documented.”

Why quintupled its value?

Here Laporta came out as he could. “In the last year we paid a lot but because there were more reports. There were some of the Confederation Cup.” During his tenure, the value of these reports increased fivefold.

Why are there no reports of Enríquez Negreira?

“Because they were destroyed. In the club, documentation is thrown away with the passage of time, as happened with these analyses. It must be taken into account that these reports expire,” he said. In a statement, Enríquez Negreira said that his reports were verbal.

What did Gaspart tell him to keep him going?

He didn’t exactly explain it that way. “At first we stopped paying them, but then we saw that it could be useful information for the club and that’s why we decided to continue,” explained the president.

Why was Contreras acting as an intermediary?

Laporta here did not want to get wet. “I do not speak for third parties,” was her response. An expression that she used on several occasions during the press conference. “Contreras is no longer with us. I would appreciate it if you make the effort to read the Tax Agency report. On pages 13 and 14, you can deduce that these companies appeared at a specific time that is outside my mandate. I have no personal reason to doubt the presidents that succeeded me,” he added.

Where has the cash gone?

Does not know. And he warns that if someone kept the money, Barça will act: “It seems important to me to point out that natural persons or a private entity external to the club, which is not FCB, have taken advantage of this context to have irregular conduct for their own benefit That is different. If this is the case, the FCB will defend its reputation. We want it to be investigated until the end. In that case, the FCB would be a victim of this situation. Technical advice is one thing and it is another that people have taken advantage of. In that case, the FCB would be a victim, it would be a person harmed”

Why were those payments hidden?

The president assures that they have always been reflected in the accounting. “All those payments are on the balance sheets.”

Why were they as institutional expenses?

This question was not asked.

Why did they pay 7.5 million for something that wasn’t worth it?

“You have to contextualize that this money was paid for 18 years. It was not done in a year. They were important and necessary reports. Made by people with an important track record in that world. I think we would have to contextualize and make it clear that this has been a enormous work for many years,” said the president.