Thread: Negreira case - FC Barcelona. All you need to know. 🚨 What is the Negreira case? 💸

• In a nutshell, first broke by SER, Barcelona were found to be allegedly making payments worth around €7M to a company (b/w 2001-2018), owned by former referee José Maria Enríquez Negreira, in exchange for referee decisions in their favor.

(🌕) Barcelona’s summer plans, as of today. Xavi wants to strengthen up to 7 positions in the team. News thread, read below. @ferrancorreas #Transfers 🔁🔎 ℹ️ Keeper position: Neto’s departure is almost certain and the club will have to get a backup, with Inaki Peña currently having the highest chances of taking over this role but no 100% decision is made as of yet. @ferrancorreas #Transfers 🧤

Joan Laporta: “Our goal is to turn Barça back into being the biggest club”. Full interview w/ SPORT below: 🧵⤵️ Laporta: “I don't have that much time to relax. I expected a very intense work, as it is being. On a day-to-day basis we are working very intensely because we have encountered a complicated situation and we want to do it well” #FCB 💪

Eduard Romeu [Economic VP] told SPORT, on signing players like Håland/Mbappe: “I have to be cautious, we won't be able to sign the best players for 2 years. We have other priorities: lower salaries. We should have La Masia as backbone, with stars complimenting them” #Transfers 🔄 Romeu, on the club’s relations with Nike: “We're talking. Like any relationship, there are moments of more AND less difficulty. Among conciliatory people who like to negotiate, there can be no problems” @sport #FCB 🤝

(🌕) Barcelona is now leaning more towards selling Sergi Roberto rather than renewing his contract, something which was a priority one month ago. Neither is Lenglet’s future at the club certain, all scenarios are open in his case. More below. @ffpolo #Transfers 🔁🚨 ℹ️ Dembele: Barcelona wants to renew his contract - but if there is no agreement, he will be placed on the market. @ffpolo #Transfers 🇫🇷

Full Interview Thread: Messi with @DiarioOle. #FCB Messi, on his earliest memories playing football, his first matches as a kid, etc: “Even before , when I was 4/5 years old, I used to play with a ball - right from the time I started walking. Yes, I remember my first games at Grandoli [in Rosario] being on the field..” #FCB ⚽️

❗️Garcia Pimienta told @beteve: “I was & am ready to coach the first team. It would not be realistic if I’m not prepared & work daily during matches and training in case the first team needs me one day. It's my intention & enthusiasm, considering it's very difficult..” #FCB 🔵🔴 Pimienta: “I wasn't surprised by the performances of players like Mingueza, Araujo or Ilaix. They are great players, who have the Barça DNA & if you put them in front of the best, they are even better. I'm not at all surprised..” #FCB 🌟

Joan Laporta’s Sporting Project Presentation. Thread. #ElectionsFCB Rafael Yuste [VP under Laport]: “Alemany has an enormous knowledge of football at all levels and that is why we will all be happy to have him if the candidacy of Joan Laporta win the elections” #Alemany 🤝

Garcia Pimienta [Barcelona B Coach] told SER: "We are talking about the Barça DNA, but within the DNA you have to be a winner and competitive. This club aspires to win everything. If you don't have a winning mentality within your DNA, you can't play here" #FCB 🔵🔴 Pimienta: "The Barça DNA is a different way of understanding football - that they truly understand the game, they use both legs, they position themselves well, they think faster than others and that before receiving they already know what to do" #FCB 🔵🔴

ℹ️ “How come we are interested in this player when we have no president?” — Barcelona’s current sporting area, which is led by Ramon Planes, has been doing a market search in these last few months ahead of the elections this March, as advanced by multiple sources. More below. ⤵️ Planes is filing reports on different kinds of players they could look into & positions which we need to be reinforced. That’s why we’ve been linked to players like Isak, Nunez or Bryan Gil, though not all reports which links us to a player from another club rn are credible. 📑

(🌕) The current sporting area of the club, led by Ramon Planes, have intensified their monitoring in La Real’s Alexandre Isak. They are aware that one of the priorities of the next president will be a CF. More details below. @moillorens @samuelmarsden #Transfers 🇸🇪 ℹ️ The current sports area has continued to search the market in the last few months to offer the next president different reports on positions which need to be reinforced and on some players that would be considered as interesting. @moillorens @samuelmarsden #Transfers 👥

(🌕) Ronald Koeman, the candidates & the technical secretariat agree that it is a priority to sign a CF. Erling Håland is a name that pleases everyone, though Barça will need to sell players & lower their wage bill before signing him. @ffpolo #Transfers #ElectionsFCB 🇳🇴

More: ⤵️ ℹ️ Among the presidential candidates, especially Joan Laporta & Victor Font, there is talk of Erling Håland’s possible signing if certain circumstances occur. @ffpolo #Transfers #ElectionsFCB 🇳🇴

Pedri told @AP: “I've always loved Iniesta and his way of playing football, the way he plays both on and off the field. He was my reference and I've tried to imitate him. I think I’ve seen all of Iniesta’s videos on YouTube and I had never missed a game of his” #FCB 🇪🇸⭐️ Pedri, on his combinations with Messi: “Maybe that's something I learned from Andres, but the truth is they're things that happen on the field. If you suddenly listen to Leo, you know you can give him the ball because he'll create danger & end up marking as usual” @AP #FCB 🇦🇷🤝🇪🇸

🎙 Joan Laporta’s interview with @rac1. Thread. Joan Laporta: “I will do my best [if he wins] for Messi to continue at Barça. I have indications that he is doing well in Barcelona and that he wants to stay. You need to rely on a sporting project to win the Champions League” #FCB

Sergi Roberto is back! He has received the medical green light. #FCB ✅ 👥 #BarçaBilbao

🚨 Messi interview for @goal:

“When I communicated my wish to leave to my wife and children, it was a brutal drama. The whole family began crying, my children did not want to leave Barcelona, nor did they want to change schools.”

More..⤵️ “But I looked further afield and I want to compete at the highest level, win titles, compete in the Champions League. You can win or lose in it, because it is very difficult, but you have to compete” #FCB

🇦🇷 Messi Transfer Roundup: 🔄

In the last few days, nothing significant has happened. Messi decided to not appear for the PCR tests. Furthermore, he didn’t train with the team today....⤵️ 📌 Messi still wants to leave the club, which is why he had taken the decision mentioned above. His father and Bartomeu are expected to have a meeting this week per multiple reports. Jorge Messi will request for a friendly exit from the club.

(🌕) Manchester City are weighing up offering Messi a long-term contract that would see him move to partner club like New York City after 3 years in the Premier League, various sources confirm. @samuelmarsden #FCB 🚨🚨🇦🇷 They could also offer Messi the chance to become an ambassador for the City Football Group, the holding company that owns a number of clubs across the world, including City and NYC FC. @samuelmarsden #FCB 🚨🇦🇷

Semedo is the player who has the most options to be part of an exchange operation, as he is one of the few assets of the first team that could give Barcelona a good return to the sales revenue section. @moillorens #Transfers 🚨🇵🇹

More..⤵️ In addition, sources close to the player admitted that the footballer intends to change clubs. In this sense, both Manchester City and Inter have also valued the side, which slowed down its renewal with Barcelona. ✍🏻⛔️🚨