Barcelona president Joan Laporta took a defiant, triumphant tone when Real Madrid’s request to review the evidence in the ongoing Negreira case was dismissed this week, boasting about the failure of these “underhand tactics.”
Madrid and their president Florentino Pérez have taken a keen interest in the investigation into payments Barcelona allegedly made to José María Enríquez Negreira, the former vice-president of the Spanish FA’s technical committee of referees, since it was first reported in 2023.
