Rossel: Negrera has no weight, and most of the presidents of the Administrative Committee are Real Madrid fans

Hupu September 22nd News Former Barcelona Chairman Rossell, who was investigated for suspected sports corruption, cleared up any illegal acts in his statement to the judge last week, defended the innocence of the Barcelona Club, and insisted that former vice chairman of the referee technical committee, Negrera had no influence.

SER Radio obtained a recording of its statement. When asked directly whether the 7.5 million euros paid by Barcelona to Negrera between 2001 and 2018 were intended to ensure that the referee favored and bought the referee, Rossel firmly stated: "Negra has no weight in the CTA (Referee Technical Committee). Historically, in the past seventy years, the chairman has been the chairman, and in these seventy years, I don't know whether it is all or most of these chairmans who claim to be Real Madrid fans. The only ones who have weight in the CTA are the chairman, and they are always Real Madrid people."

Russel used five arguments and a four-and-a-half-minute answer to justify his testimony. First, he calculated that the fee paid to Negrera was equivalent to 250 euros per report. The second point is that the influential one is the chairman, and the chairman is usually Real Madrid fans. Third, he asserted that Barcelona has Xavi, Messi, Iniesta and Guardiola so that they can win. In the fourth point, he pointed out that even if Negrera has influence, she only has it in Spain, not in Europe, and Barcelona also won the European Championship. On the fifth point, he asked to re-examine the game with the referee experts.

"It's simple, let's review all the games carefully, let's have five referee experts come over and see which game the referee helped us, let's sit down and watch the game together... Maybe some people here don't like this, but sometimes you can't win, you just lose, you have to accept it. A gentleman club should have accepted this, not to delay for life in order to cover up other things, as they are trying to do now. Just like they do now, the league has only played a few rounds and they run to FIFA to complain about the referee, where is Mr. Negrera now?" Rossell elaborated.