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Barcelona paid nearly $1.5 million to the former refereeing committee vice-president Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira via a company of his between 2016-18, according to a bombshell Spanish language report from Cadena SER. Disgraced former president Josep Maria Bartomeu claimed that payments were made legitimately and then later finished as part of cost cuts.
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An official Barcelona statement, which confirmed receipt of refereeing reports from a company, said, “Knowing the facts which the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating related to payments made to external companies, [the club] wants to make clear:
“That in the past Barcelona contracted the services of an external technical consultant, who provided, in video form, technical reports referring to players from the youth categories of the Spanish state for the club’s technical secretary.
“Additionally, the relationship with this external provider expanded to technical reports related to professional refereeing, with a view to complementing the information required by the first-team and academy coaching staff, a usual practice in professional football clubs.
“At present, these types of external services fall to a professional assigned to…
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