🚨 Negreira case: Real Madrid lodge complaint with UEFA | OneFootball

Florentino Pérez is not letting up.

Real Madrid is taking another step on the European football stage. The club has filed an official complaint with UEFA’s disciplinary bodies regarding the Negreira case. In this document, the Madrid club provides new evidence which, according to it, conclusively confirms suspicions of corruption.

Real Madrid’s leadership describes the prolonged payments to José María Enríquez Negreira, former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees, as unjustified. For  Real Madrid , these actions represent an “extremely serious systemic risk” that directly undermines the integrity, equality, and impartiality of competitions.

"In this document, the club informed UEFA of the existence of relevant evidence that conclusively reinforces the indications already known from the outset regarding the existence of prolonged and opaque payments, lacking any verifiable justification, made by FC Barcelona to the former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, José María Enríquez Negreira, through different corporate structures."

"Real Madrid stresses that these events constitute (...) a structure of undue influence over the refereeing body, incompatible with the essential principles of competitive equality", the club’s statement reads.

For this reason, the club urged UEFA to immediately reopen the disciplinary proceedings initially launched. It considers it unacceptable for the situation to continue, as it seriously damages the credibility of the sport. Consequently, it is urgently demanding a firm, exemplary, and immediate response.

Real Madrid specified that this request is entirely independent of the ongoing criminal proceedings in Spain, where the club remains involved as a private prosecutor. It is asking sports justice to act with full autonomy in order to guarantee the proper functioning of football and ensure that “acts of this nature do not go unpunished.”

This complaint comes a few days after FC Barcelona announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Florentino Pérez for defamation.

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