# Negreira case: Barcelona payments and referee promotion concerns

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120774079544275427
- Source account: [@futbolgate_ES](https://x.com/futbolgate_ES)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:46
- Published: 2026-11-12
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/es/caso-negreira-pagos-del-bar%C3%A7a-y-sospechas-sobre-el-arbitraje.md

## Transcript

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=1) For almost two decades, millions of euros flowed out of the coffers of FC Barcelona to Spain’s second-highest-ranking referee official.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=9) In exchange for what? Three years of judicial investigation.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=14) What happens when Sique tells Barcelona: “Hey, look, we have this”?

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=20) Well, the phrase is: “We’re a man condemned to death asking you for one last wish.”

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=25) There was no—there wasn’t any report from any year, because he had never made any report for Barça in his life.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=31) No reports, no videos, no documents. We intend to cooperate and help as much as possible the court, the— the justice system, in order to clarify these events.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=43) And I have no intention of publicizing all the irregularities I’ve learned about. and experienced firsthand in relation to no one at the club.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=51) Mari, it'll be lengthy, but I do like this idea.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=54) Are we looking at a novel way of possibly paying football referees illicitly, in a case that could be a possible case of systemic corruption based on the corrective index?

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=68) Or corruption. I know the system. Why was I promoted?

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=73) Because I was good? No. That too, right? Yes, that too, too, but—why was I promoted?

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=77) Because someone behind me said, “You’ll rise.”

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=79) We’ve reordered the list now with the corrective index applied.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=82) Curiously, the referees rated with the highest corrective index were promoted to the first division that year.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/g2WqJDxLF0Uq/en/negreira-case-barcelona-payments-and-referee-promotion-concerns?t=88) Millions of euros, two decades, a system under suspicion and too many questions still left unanswered.