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THE CLUB DOES NOT RULE OUT ALTERNATIVES

Barça could join other leagues due to the 'Negreira case'

Published:2/05/2023 - 01:32h

Updated:2/05/2023 - 09:32h

Although the FC Barcelona board of directors is optimistic about the resolution of the investigations into the scandal of the 'Negreira case', the club manages several alternatives in the face of possible sanctions derived from the case. One of them: join other leagues

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See to the FC Barcelona contesting a different competition to LaLiga, the Glass of Rey or the tournaments UEFA during the season results difficult to imagine, but is a possibility that the directive no descarta of face to the 2023/24. In front of the risk to suffer hard economic sanctions and sportive derivatives of the 'case Negreira', the club would look for alternative sources of income and, one of them, aims to add to other competitions.

As it advances the program 'Onze' of 'Esport3', the Barça could participate in other Leagues by means of 'skittles' or like club 'invited' to relieve the crisis that would cause, for example, the not being able to contest European competitions during the next two or three seasons. For the moment, Joan Laporta and his directive consider unlikely that this suceda, but the option will follow on the table while the case do not resolve .

The Arab football would be priority

In this sense, the Barça would prioritise to contest tournaments that devengaran extraordinary income and the Arab football is one of the best options. In accordance with 'Onze', this alternative is in consultative phase and any decision would have to subject before to referendo between the partners. The option arose before the 'summit' between Joan Laporta and the president of the UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, made the past 19 April.

In the meeting, the mandator culé looked for limar asperezas with the leader esloveno, the one who referred previously to the 'case Negreira' as "the greater scandal seen in the world of the football". Laporta Conversed with Ceferin after his intervention during the assembly of LaLiga in which there was an approach with Javier Thebes for, equally, calm the waters with the patronal Spanish.

The Barça would have still margin of manoeuvre

If the Barça went considered guilty by a possible "rape of the legal frame" by the Committee of Ethical and Discipline of the UEFA, the club could appeal any sanction in front of the Cut of Appeal of the same UEFA and in front of the Court of Sportive Arbitration (TAS), which would give margin so that the possible sanctions did not go in in force to the beginning of the season 2023/24. For the moment, the maximum body of the European football has designated to the inspectors Jean-Samuel Leuba and Mirjam Koller to commission of the case. In LaLiga there is not risk of sanction, as the case already prescribed.

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