Another investigation that will lead nowhere. This was caught by the tax man, not uefa, they paid him while he was the referee boss, strangely it stopped when he quit. It's blazen again, but nothing will be done.
Maybe/probably, but the case is ongoing so we'll see. Paying him personally certainly doesn't look good. Given that it's Barcelona paying a Spanish referee, I would assume that in the first instance it's more of a La Liga issue than a UEFA one as well.
Their claim is that it was to a company who provide analysis of referees. If that’s true quite a smart thing to go, get details about what certain refs give pens for or yellows/refs for etc. how much holding can you get away with etc.
Yes, which sounds legit and should be fairly easy to prove one way or the other, especially if other clubs were doing similar, as they claim. But they also paid him personally as well as the company: "Barcelona made payments to the company totalling a reported 1.4m euros (£1.2m) between 2016 and 2018, and paid Negreira, 77, about 7m euros (£6.2m) between 2001 and 2018, the year he left his role with the referees' committee." That sounds more suspect.
Hadn’t seen that part. Does sound much more dodgy given he was part of the committee. Barca just seem like a proper ****ed up club from the top the last 5/6 years. So much controversy and selling off the family Jewell’s to be able to even register players.
The referee owned the company, Barcelona paid them while he was part of the refereeing body, then he quit and suddenly no more payments. 18 of the 20 clubs have complained, doesn't sound like they where doing the same. It's rotten, like so much of football.
Juventus kicked out of European competition by UEFA for ffp breaches https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66342566 Chelsea also fined £8.5m
something a bit whiffy about this. juve didn't care about their comp anyway. they were find before and have several issues in the past. Chelsea in no Europe at all so get a derisory fine and no future consequences for past issues despite having priors and transfer ban.
No way they'd have done that had Juve been in the CL. Trying to make a statement by kicking Juve out a competition they don't really want to be in!
think they may be taking into account that according to the report it was the new Chelsea ownership who notified Uefa of the breaches by the past regime
they haven't cheated as under FFP it is impossible to in the timescale you are referring to plus considering there sales this window thay are almost certainly ok .
I don't know how serious Chelsea's infringement was. As far as I've seen it was only for incomplete paperwork, not actual infringement, and no indication of how much/important was missing.
In an attempt to stop time wasting, Premier League referees will add up time lost on goal celebrations, free-kicks and penalties next season. The matches could in theory last as long as the games in the 2022 World Cup. Last season the average playing time in a match was 54 minutes and 49 seconds. - - - - Believe it when I see it
Good, if you pay to watch 90 mins football you get rewarded with as close to that as possible given the prices. If you paid £50 for a train journey you would be pissed if it stopped 10 miles from where it was meant to.
Premier League rules changes. https://www.thisisanfield.com/2023/...es-that-should-benefit-liverpool-this-season/
