Official: Barcelona demand Javier Tebas’ resignation over ‘submission of false evidence’

In an official statement, Barcelona have demanded an explanation from La Liga president Javier Tebas after reports of him providing false evidence to the prosecution in the Negreira case emerged.

Earlier today, La Vanguardia published a detailed report on how Tebas had written a letter to provide evidence to incriminate former Barcelona presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell in the Negreira case.

The La Liga head honcho had submitted a document and had demanded swift action from the prosecution. But the alleged evidence turned out to have no substantial links to the Barça officials and was two decades old.

While Tebas defended himself earlier today with a statement on Twitter stating that he was not levelling any accusations, Barcelona have now demanded an explanation from the La Liga president, while going a step further and asking for his resignation as well.

In an angrily-worded statement, the club said: “Given the seriousness of the information that appeared today Monday in La Vanguardia, in which the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, is linked as the executor in presenting false evidence to the Prosecutor’s Office to incriminate our Club, FC Barcelona wishes to express its deep anger, indignation and weariness.”

“For this reason, we urgently request the president of La Liga to appear publicly to offer explanations, beyond the tweet sent at dawn by Mr. Tebas.

“FC Barcelona, ​​​​as the president Joan Laporta has been saying in recent weeks, feels like the victim of a media lynching due to events that have never happened: Barça has never bought referees.

“It is not the first time that the president of La Liga has used all his media machinery to blow up FC Barcelona but, apart from his usual nonsense, we could never have imagined that he would have tried to incriminate our Club with false evidence.

“The news published today by La Vanguardia is so serious that it should alert all La Liga clubs, due to practices that do not fit in with the functions attributed to the president of La Liga. Only for this fact, that of attributing functions that do not correspond to him, although also out of dignity and respect for the presidency of La Liga, Mr. Tebas should resign from his function.“

It will certainly be interesting to see how Tebas responds to this as the war between La Liga and Barcelona looks set to flare up further.