As Barcelona prepare to take on Manchester United tonight, the controversy over the club’s relationship with a former Spanish referee rumbles on amid new revelations.
Spanish media El Mundo revealed in its Thursday edition that when Barcelona stopped paying the former vice-president of the Referees’ Committee, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, his lawyers faxed them referencing a relationship that had ‘lasted so many years with so many favours rendered and so many confidences shared’.
El Mundo revealed last week that Negreira sent another fax to Barcelona in 2019 that said he would ‘publicise all the irregularities I have known and experienced at first hand in relation to the club’, if an agreement were not reached between the two parties.