The Betis president describes the payments to Negreira as “very serious” and recalls that “UEFA has sanctioned in similar circumstances”
The president of Real Betis, Ángel Haro, was the last leader of Spanish football to rule on the Negreira case and Barcelona’s payments to the number two technical referee commissions to qualify them as “quite serious”.
The maximum mandate verdiblanco has in fact said that they don’t ignore the fact that uefa can penalize the culés without playing European competitions like on other occasions.
“We know that UEFA is investigating with an open file. A priori, what happened is very serious, we don’t like what happened, that they paid an arbitrator to a company regardless of whether or not it could have had influence. From my point of view it’s pretty serious and we will have to wait for events. In similar circumstances, UEFA has issued a sanction, but we have to wait”, He said this at a press conference.
A possible sanction against Barça by UEFA could benefit Betis itself, since the verdiblancos or Villarreal have many options to finish fifth in LaLiga and could take the blaugrana position in the Champions League if there is a sanction from UEFA
Source: Goal