In a harsh official statement, the Barça club is suing the president of LaLiga
Follow the crossfire between FC Barcelona and LaLiga president Javier Tebas. The Catalan club has issued a press release stating the following: “Given the seriousness of the information released today, Monday in The vanguardlinking LaLiga president Javier Tebas as executor in the presentation of false evidence to the prosecutor’s office to accuse our club, FC Barcelona wants to express its deep anger, indignation and weariness,” they added.
In the club, they feel like “victims of a lynch mob” and insist that “referees are not bought”
Barça asks for clarification from Tebas: “For this reason, we urgently demand that the president of LaLiga appear in public to explain, apart from the tweet sent at dawn by Mr Tebas, running away from the studio and with a menacing patina FC Barcelona, as its president Joan Laporta has said in recent weeks, feels like the victim of a media lynching for events that never happened: Barça never bought referees”
Barça speak of “harassment by a handful of media outlets as LaLiga fuels the fire behind the scenes”
The statement continued: “A handful of media outlets and opinion formers participated in this harassment with more or less bad intentions, while behind the scenes LaLiga fanned the fire against our club, with contributions from the chairman going in only one direction: trying to get us condemn before public opinion before the facts are judged,” they say.
The content of the club’s note later deteriorates: “It is not the first time that the president of LaLiga has used all his media machines to blow up FC Barcelona, but apart from his usual nonsense, we could never have imagined that he would have tried to accuse our Club with false evidence,” they said.
“The news published today The vanguard It is a seriousness that should warn all LaLiga clubs, due to practices that do not fit the functions attributed to the president of LaLiga,” explained the Barcelona club.
Barça requests Tebas’ resignation “for dignity”
Finally, the statement explains: “Just because of this fact, the awarding of positions that do not suit him, but also out of dignity and respect for the presidency of LaLiga, Mr. Tebas should resign. However, aware of his obsession with persecuting FC Barcelona and continuously showing his disgust and manifest antipathy towards our club, we understand that the current president of LaLiga will persist in his behavior to continue to harm our club,” they say.
Thebes denies having provided “false evidence”.
For his part, LaLiga president Javier Tebas has denied being part of any accusations against FC Barcelona, denying on his Twitter account that he has provided any “false evidence” against the Barça club.
Source: Goal