The Catalonian Supreme Court sentenced Barcelona Football Club to pay. 300.000 Euros To Pancho Schröder, who was financial director under Josep Maria Bartomeu but stopped claims for further compensation after Joan Laporta was wrongfully sacked just three months after becoming president of the club in 2021. An internal investigation conducted within Barça for payments to Enríquez Negreira’s companies received almost half a million euros in his last year in office, El Periódico de España of the Prensa group has learned in Iberian.
According to the sentence reached by this newspaper, Schroeder unfairly dismissed It’s on 18 June 2021 and therefore Barça has to pay him 296,450 euros in compensation.
An amount that justice understands that agreed-upon concepts are recognized, i.e. fixed annual salary plus 30% of variable, the former financial director argues that the bonuses decided to increase this amount should also be taken into account. Against the opinion affirming the sentence of the Social Court 32 of Barcelona, an appeal can be made to the Social Division of the Supreme Court for the consolidation of the doctrine.
Schröder, currently unable to meet his goal of increasing his severance pay due to his dismissal, was one of Josep María Bartomeu’s strongmen and responsible for Fútbol’s ‘caja’ during his six years at the helm of the club. Club Barcelona during the years when his relationship with José María Enríquez Negreira broke off.
Wanted to investigate payments to Negreira
According to ‘Infolibre’ in November 2016, Oscar GrauNegreira, Barça’s then executive director, ordered one of the companies in the case to stop paying bills until he spoke to him. Albert Soler, Professional Sports Director. A few days later, Pancho Schroeder, in the role of financial director, asked the chairman of the board for a history of the club’s payments to three companies affiliated with the No. 2 referee.
However, this did not mean that the relationship was cut off immediately, as Barcelona and Enríquez Negreira did not part ways until 2018, just now.
As part of the investigation into the Negreira case, Pancho Schröder is not one of the directors to whom the prosecution has filed a criminal complaint. Investigation, but Óscar Grau yes. According to the letter submitted to the club’s former CEO, the CEO, in early March, the attributes of blame alleged corruption crimes unfair administration and document falsification among individuals in the field of sports. In total, Grau could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison, similar to what happened to Josep María Bartomeu and Albert Soler. Penalties for offenses attributed to Sandro Rosell and José María Enríquez Negreira can be up to seven years in prison.
Nearly half a million salary last year
According to this decision of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia, to which El Periódico de España has access, Pancho Schröder’s fixed salary increased from 190,000 Euros in October 2015 when he was hired to 220,000 Euros at the time of his employment. Fired by Joan Laporta in 2021.
However, the variable and bonus portion of the CFO’s contract was as important as, and sometimes even more, the fixed salary. For example, a year before his dismissal, Schroeder, this newspaper learned, 462,044 €. Of these, €200,000 were credited in general bonuses, around €17,400 in variable wages and €14,800 in “retro listing bonuses”, which could refer to compensation for the King’s Cup that Barça promoted in 2020-. 2021 season.
The former manager, who is now president of Real Club de Golf el Prat de Barcelona, was one of those who initiated the search for funding for the project. Espai Barca stadium renovation.
On 23 December 2019, Fútbol Club Barcelona added to Schröder’s contract a three-year bonus of €90,000 and a special section devoted to the new Camp Nou project: €145,200 commission when the refinancing structure is approved by parliament, and another €74,800 if approved 25-year structure It was refinanced four or five years later. Total, Equivalent to an ‘extra’ fixed annual salary of 220,000 euros He said that he could not confirm whether this newspaper was collected despite the parliamentary approval of Espai Barça’s 1,500m-euro financing, four months after it was unfairly dismissed.
“Sewer rat”
Schroeder is also one of the participants in the WhatsApp executive group of Josep Maria Bartomeu, for which, according to Mossos d’Esquadra, part of the case was fabricated. barricade gate Investigating a possible reveal of secrets due to the leaking of the contracts of Leo Messi and Gerard Piqué.
According to this research, that group included CEO Óscar Grau, Director of Strategy and Innovation Javier Sobrino, director of finance Pancho Schröder, and then head of legal department of Fútbol Club Barcelona, Román Gómez, with the president. and other managers Ponti.
in chats privately disclosed by El Periódico de Catalunya from the Prensa Ibérica group, Ponti fell Possibility to filter the contracts of Messi and PiquéAmong other disqualifying words, he identifies the first as “sewage rat” and the second as “big son of a bitch”.