The attacks and accusations between Barcelona and the president of the Spanish League Javier Tebas continue.
The club called for Tebas’ resignation on Monday after a report surfaced that the league provided false evidence to prosecutors against Barcelona in the arbitration scandal involving the Catalan club.
Tebas assured that the report published by the newspaper La Vanguardia is misleading and with an incorrect premise, but it was enough to increase the dispute between both parties.
“It is not the first time that the president of LaLiga uses all his media machinery to blow up FC Barcelona,” the club said in a statement. “But apart from his usual nonsense, we could never have imagined that he would have intended to incriminate our Club with false evidence.”
Barça indicated that the news published by La Vanguardia “is so serious that it should alert all LaLiga clubs, due to practices that do not fit in with the functions attributed to the president of LaLiga.”
“Only for this fact, that of attributing functions that do not correspond to him, but also out of dignity and respect for the presidency of LaLiga, Mr. Tebas should resign from his function,” the club added. “However, aware of his obsession with persecuting FC Barcelona and constantly showing his aversion and manifest antipathy towards our Club, we understand that the current president of LaLiga will persist in his behavior of continuing to harm our Club”.
Thebes asked the newspaper for a correction and said that the article includes statements and erroneous information” that “seriously harm my honor” and “the image” of the Spanish league.
Barcelona “feels the victim of a media lynching for events that have never happened: Barça has never bought referees.”
The team has been under scrutiny since it became known that the club paid millions of dollars over the years to a company owned by the vice president of the country’s arbitration committee.
The club denied any wrongdoing and said the payments were for technical reports and not to influence refereeing decisions.
