Enrique and Valverde enter the Barcelona crisis line .. What is the story?
The repercussions of the Barcelona team crisis in the case related to bribes to Jose Maria Negrera, the former vice-chairman of the Referees Committee, continue in the Spanish Football League.
A report by the Spanish newspaper El Pais revealed, on Monday, that the judiciary summoned former Barcelona coaches Luis Enrique and Ernesto Valverde, in order to investigate the case, as each of them is expected to testify on this matter.
According to the information contained in the same report, the same prosecutor’s office asked Enrique and Valverde to testify in the “Negrera case”.
Valverde responded regarding whether Barcelona had “got” the titles of the 2017-2018 season with the help of arbitration, as the coach was at the head of the technical staff of the Catalan team.
Valverde responded to the accusation that Barcelona crowned the league during his reign through arbitration aids, saying, and in televised statements: “I think we won the League by 14 points from the second-placed team at the time, and we won the Cup once morest Seville in the final 5-0. I do not think that at that time there were discussions regarding Arbitration performance, nor our technical advantage.
Barcelona was charged with sports corruption and providing a bribe of 7 million euros to Jose Maria Negrera, former vice-chairman of the Referees Committee of the Spanish Football Federation, from 2001 to 2016.
