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In the absence of explanations from

Joan Laporta

, Barça has come out today to talk about the Negreira case through its

virtual president,

Gerard Piqué.

The former Barça central defender doesn't quite believe the entire plot hatched by his club as he believes that buying a referee is much easier: "If you want to buy a referee it's as easy as going to the referee with black money, you're

left

with him, you give him an envelope and it's over".

Piqué considers that "things are much simpler than going to a vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees to give him a salary,

which you know is public, and that today or tomorrow they will take it from you

, and that you also think that with this man you will be able to condition 30 referees or those of the First Division".

For the former player, all this "does not make any sense", and he recalls that they are "totally used to conspiracies".

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The 'justification' of the former Barça presidents for the 'Negreira Case': ''We paid in self-defense''

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The 'justification' of the former Barça presidents for the 'Negreira Case': ''We paid in self-defense''

Piqué, who has never kept quiet in front of the media every time he believed that his team had been harmed by the referees, and even thrived on the networks trolling the arbitration decisions that benefited Real Madrid, are convinced that Barça: "has

not bought from the referees, I would put my hand on fire

."

And he says it remembering: "I know my club and I know the things it does well and the things it doesn't do so well".

Although later he clarifies that the players were not aware of the payments to Enríquez Negreira: "The players don't know that. I don't know if this man's job was to help, but we as players were out of this."

Nor did the alleged reports made by Negreira about the referees reach the squads.

What's more, they didn't need them: "

The players that we've had for a few years already knew what referees are like

."

In an interview granted this morning to the RAC1 program

El

món

, Piqué said that he never met Negreira, whose tenure at the Technical Committee of Referees coincided with most of Piqué's time in the first team, and in his most glorious

period

: "As much as they want to mess around,

that was a golden age

" in which the team "was far superior (...) It's not just the titles won, but how they were won. You can review everything: we will be far superior. We didn't depend on of the referee, neither for better nor for worse".

Joan Laporta assured yesterday that he is dying to see the faces with which he is discrediting Barça, and denounces a campaign against the club's honor: "I really want to face the scoundrels who are staining our shield."

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