Barça’s ex-president Josep Maria Bartomeumade a statement this Friday, reassuring him that he had never heard of the leaks. It is about Leo Messi’s contract with Gerard Piqué, according to the news of Mossos in the ‘Barçagate’ summary published by El Periódico from the group Prensa Ibérica on Thursday. “I want to clarify that I did not make any of these leaks. I did not allow any of these leaks. “I did not have any prior knowledge of the leak,” says the former head of the Barça club.
Bartomeu’s lawyer, José María Fuster Fabra, has already appealed Román Gómez-Ponti, at the court investigating the case, for the police report to be removed from the judicial process, which included the handing over of these documents to the former director of the institution, Óscar Grau, and to the former head of the club’s legal department.
“Everything shows that Óscar Grau and Román Gómez-Ponti wanted and intended to make public the personal data of FC Barcelona employees such as Leo Messi and Gerard Piqué. Josep Maria Bartomeu had direct knowledge of these allegations, namely It cannot be ruled out that these people are collaborators.“, protect Mossos. The district police include in the report some wasap conversations that Gómez-Ponti was looking for. “sewer rat” and “hormonal dwarf” Argentine player and insults Piqué.
Maneuver from the club
“Oskar (Grau), this leak was only able to leave the clubThis was never made public and as far as I understand only a few people have access to Messi’s contract. I don’t think breaking up with him is a leak. “Whoever leaked this is hurting the club,” Bartomeu says in one of those messages. In this sense, the ex-president of the Barça club Mossos’ conclusions are “wrong” Regarding his possible knowledge of the leak, because he understands that his participation in this conversation clearly shows that he neither allows it nor is aware of it.
Bartomeu, the messages written by Gómez-Ponti Insults to Messi and Piqué “in private”also favors respecting everyone’s “freedom of expression” “even if I think differently”. “In this sense, I repeat what I have said publicly on different occasions: it was a historical mistake to let the best player in football history, Leo Messi, go,” said the former Barça president.