Two months after the outbreak of the biggest scandal in the history of Spanish football, FC Barcelona continues to be entrenched in opacity and in a search for impunity incompatible with the minimum level of ethical demand of any sports institution and even with the Penal Code. The attitude exhibited by President Joan Laporta constantly shows that his intention is not to contribute to the clarification of the facts with due transparency, but to flee forward as if he -and in s

or delirium, by extension Barcelona- was a victim of the information that has uncovered the corruption with which its different presidents have muddied the club in the last 17 years. That's why he directs

A campaign of defamation and harassment that crystallizes in the information that we echo today

in our

Foreground

: only 85 members of FC Barcelona, 0.05% of the total, have dared to break this law of silence and appear in court to seek the answers of the

Negreira case

that your club does not offer.

The few occasions in which Laporta has spoken out have been to shamefully denounce a persecution, even ensuring that the investigation is based on false evidence. This reaction is the result of the maelstrom of hysteria in which he and his defenders have wrapped themselves in order to deny the major, of which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office recorded:

between 2001 and 2018, the club paid 7.3 million euros to the vice president of the Referees Committee José María Enríquez Negreira so that he favored Barcelona.

with the decisions of the collegiate. Attempts were made to rig the competition with those payments that are not justified and from which threatening gifts and burofaxes have derived. While the dome of the club is castilla,

The fan wonders how it is possible to hide the signs of corruption

when the highest bodies of football assume the seriousness of the facts. The adulteration committed - reminiscent of the

Moggigate

It has even led UEFA's disciplinary committee to open an urgent investigation, which may end with Barca's expulsion from European competitions for at least a year. An unprecedented decision in Spain although in cases such as the Albanian team Skenderbeu or the Turks Fenerbahçe and Besiktas.

LaLiga will hold an extraordinary assembly on the 19th in which it will discuss the deep reputational crisis that the arbitration establishment is going through and how to improve its operation.

Laporta has been asked to account there: it is an exercise in naivety.

Every day that the president continues to lead FC Barcelona deepens the abyss of the club's discredit. Laporta should have resigned long ago. It did not do so then and will not do so now, in line with the

Values

which he does seem to defend: the unjustified payments, the amount of which he himself increased, of

7.3 million to an arbitral officer.