Jordi Mestre, a former Barça executive who saw Negreira's reports: "500,000 euros a year is outrageous"

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Jordi Mestre, the former Barça manager who became famous in 2017 for his phrase: "I am 200% convinced that

is staying", could have outdone himself with the phrase: "That a person earns

per year It's outrageous", referring to what the club paid Enríquez Negreria and son.

The supposed arbitration reports that the club received for 17 years not only existed, but Mestre claims to have received them in his email: "Yes, there were reports. At first, they passed them to me, but after receiving 3 or 4 I said I asked not to They will pass them on to me more", he acknowledged in an interview with the program

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Although he does not remember their exact content, he does remember that he did not give them "importance" because they were "purely technical" issues, and that they came to him through Josep Contreras, a former member of the Barça sports committee, now deceased.

Apart from Dasnil DL, Barça had also made payments to Soccercam SL, owned by

and Tresep 2014 SL, which belonged to Josep Contreras himself, who according to the investigation received commissions of up to 50% for what Barça paid Javier Enríquez.

The one who was one of the strong men of Bartomeu's board of directors, until his resignation in 2019 due to discrepancies over the direction the club was taking, acknowledges that what he was being paid for these services was out of the market: "It is

cost very large. For a person to earn 500,000 euros a year is outrageous because an executive who earns this amount must be a very good executive and must get fed up with work".

Mestre did not commission these works, but he understands that it is "suspicious" that the club paid these amounts to companies belonging to the referees' vice president, but that if it were for arbitration favors, the results have not been shown: "I am surprised and upset because that The fact that this is associated with the fact that we have received favorable treatment from the referees is a dream. We lost the League at the Camp Nou against Atlético due to a disallowed goal that was a goal and a goal was annulled in the Betis field when the ball had entered a meter".

What's more, he assures him, "if we have theoretically paid that money for what they say, buy the referees, they

because it has been proven that they have not helped us at all."

Although Mestre became Barça's sports vice president in 2014, he has been at the club since 2010, when he was appointed head of youth football, Barça B and Barça women's.

The former manager said he was unaware of the burofax that Negreira sent to Bartomeu threatening to tell the club's secrets: "If he didn't tell me anything, it's because I'm convinced that he didn't pay any attention."

But he also challenges Negreira and his surroundings to tell it: "

and prove it."

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