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codespyder

“They scared to death they scared to look “ - Joan Laporta, probably


flashuk100

Ain't no such thing as half-way cooked books


nushublushu

half-cooked to keep the meter


risheeb1002

These books are fucking raw! -Gordon Ramsay, probably


Leuchtrakete

Cranbrook: What he say fuck me for?


SwapmeetGoon

“Ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks!” Laporta w the Mobb behind him


Satyajeet12

'He ain't a crook son, he's just a shook one'


nilan3

God, I love that track.. Best beat ever made imo


WeReallyOutHere10

Yeah I recently got to watch the sample breakdown for it… it’s so good


Otaconmg

Hard agree. My favorite beat of all time.


Upplands-Bro

There's numerous levers to earn funds, son


cidji_hh

Lmao this got rolling


requin-tigre

It's me. I'm crooks.


Serious-Host5073

[It was Ben Stolen](https://youtu.be/dw4XKhQDABY)


throwawaayy011

Please tell me that was a comedy sketch. Either way it was comedic.


chino17

Spiderman meme


bh2623

Hot dog suit meme


myersjw

We’re all trying to find out who did this!


TreeDollarFiddyCent

It could *literally* be any of us.


zimtrovert94

*spongebobwantedpostermeme.jpg*


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circa285

But Barca is super innocent because no one has, as of yet anyway, proven what those payments were for. /s


prathneo4

"Wait till they find out about me"


blacmagick

"of course I know him, he's me"


xepa105

[Laporta pointing fingers at the crooks tainting the club](https://i.imgflip.com/1otri4.jpg?a466272)


vercengetortwix

I was thinking the SpongeBob wanted Maniac meme but spiderman is a good shout


dudududujisungparty

Every one of these threads: **Barca fans:** See we're innocent **Everyone else:** Stop right there, criminal scum


Silent-Act191

I used to be a footballer like you, then i took Gavi's head to my knee.


Gluroo

Nobody breaks the law on my watch! I'm confiscating your stolen ~~goods~~ titles. Now pay your fine and it's off to ~~jail~~ Segunda B


shinfoni

Laporta: I don't know you and I don't care to know you


konald_roeman

I am a Barca fan and I'm just here for the vibes


AdamAlexanderRies

There's a weird sense of relief for me, like a scalpel has just made its first incision into an infected abscess. It's unleashed a horrendous stench, it's ugly to look at, it's sure to scar, and there's more to come.


throwawaayy011

I never understood a lot of Barca moves (hiring a PR firm to attack their own players online, Griezmann, Pjanic, Dest, Braithwaite, Coutinho, Umtiti/S. Roberto contract extensions). I thought they were pure childish mismanagement. Now this corruption saga and god knows what else. I honestly don’t know where incompetence ends and corruption begins. Whoever did this to the club should be put away for a long time for violating their fiduciary duty. Fans & football in general deserve much better than this.


AdamAlexanderRies

Roberto's underrated. At [2% of our wage bill](https://www.capology.com/club/barcelona/salaries/) he's more than pulling his weight, especially given the bizarre dearth of excellent rightbacks league-wide. Every other word you've written here should be carved in stone. gl hf this Sunday :)


DamagedGoods_17

Not unfairly so lol.


staedtler2018

Hold me back, fam!


idosade

https://i.imgur.com/DbG3v7S.jpg


Alivethroughempathy

Has he looked at the mirror to find one lately?


firelordUK

vampires don't appear in mirrors sadly


Astridsfather

Damn son!


whiskeyinthejaar

No, God forbid anyone come out and admit being at fault. There is really no defense other than blame the previous management, and promise to coperate with the authorities. I just don't get the victim mentality of the World V Us. Even the most delusional Barca fans didn't get to that point Laporta reached


cieldarko

He’s included in the previous management 💀


barmyinpalmy

I’m innocent, I blame all the previous presidents. You are a previous president. Ah fuck.


CETERIS_PARTYBUS

Surely that's the guy who quadrupled Negreira's payments. I wonder who that was.


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SubstantialOne780

Maybe too obvious, let's call him Joan L.


dudududujisungparty

Let's use a pseudonym instead, something like... idk J. Bartomeu?


Lord_Sauron

El Barto


RockyCasino

A classic


Tifoso89

My name is Mr Atropal and I come from...far away


Blahblahlhab

That's too obvious, let's go with Joan L.


txobi

Is he a friend of M. Rajoy? Those sketchy people, impossible to know who they are


cieldarko

Historians will be puzzled


tiago32rodriguez

Bartomeu doubled it. Laporta kept it at 200k. Let's just continue to spread misinformation, it's more fun that way.


conceptalbum

Laporta didn't pay any of it. That was actually Tom Cruise in a latex mask.


TheUltimateScotsman

With big hands


djishereonreddit

Weird how someone stating facts gets downvoted here hm. Tells you what you need to know


LadyNubia

This is exactly the type of quote that does not age well


Iguanoide666

Mf when he see himself in the mirror


Leo215

He said it with a Richard Nixon voice


AncientSkys

He is starting with himself by staring at himself in the mirror.


funkadelic_bootsy

But he's not trying change his ways.


RedDragons8

Laporta - "Spent the weekend staring in the mirror." Oh doing some soul searching then Joan? Laporta - "Cocaine....."


AdamAlexanderRies

[Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror](https://youtu.be/Z9NYDgbKsBE)


The_XI_guy

Same thing Juve’s president said before they got relegated. Down to the words


ManuMora98

Is he ever goimg to give that press conference where he would explain the Negreira payments and why he multiplied his salary by 4?


SanSeb

Is this for real?


bored-skull

Why on earth would he do that? It's a legal battle in the court now.


mntgoat

Seriously. Any lawyer will tell you the first thing you do is shut the fuck up. He can't fully do that as the face of the team but he sure as hell can't give any details that could be used in court.


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arun111b

So what? He also said he will renew Messi’s contract if he win :-)


saltybiped

He clearly did. They even hugged after it.


MaTrIx4057

He would have if Tebas allowed it.


amdkeepsmehot

Crazy how after all this time people still have no clue why Messi had to leave


LudereHumanum

So like Ronaldo and his "notebook" then?


idobd11

I've seen a report by Catalunya Radio which suggests he'll hold a press conference in about 2 weeks time. As the situation's already very sensitive I very much doubt that Laporta would back down on holding a press conference.


Visionary_Socialist

Man about to walk into a hall of mirrors and lose his shit.


Ok_Aerie99

Do people still believe this guy


aarooona

[Laporta when he sees the crook behind this](https://imgur.com/a/Mo4Fyml)


shags2a

The faces are just mirrors in my house.


Impossible_Wonder_37

Look inward


ActuallyJohnTerry

“Rebekah Vardy will pay for these crimes” -Laporta probably


official_bagel

He was then played off by Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror"


haime99

Statement number 3 deflecting blame and providing no proof.


AhoyDaniel

Contrary to jumping to conclusions without any proof?


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pvp_chad

Florentino cannot show proof of the cakes because he ate them all of course. The baker has alzheimers.


lazzymuthafukkar

The payments to Negreira and his son, without any justification, any proof of their "actual" work, just invoices - are themselves enough to have a case and to punish Barca. They didn't have to pay off individual referees, they just bought the system. Here's a good thread explaining this: https://twitter.com/LastSawyer/status/1635306948466974723 Personally, for many reasons, I don't believe Barca paid off individual referees (or at least not most of them - I'll leave some cases open - like Iturralde or Clos Gomez). It just might get too messy over time - too many people will be "in the know", there will be too many people to buy, it's hard to control. What they did was "smart" - they influenced the system and managed to skew its natural "balancing" mechanism. If you're deciding who gets promoted and who gets relegated, you can imagine that quite quickly you can get yourself a set of referees who just personally prefer Barca over Madrid, and in some cases it might not even be that - they might've been looking for some referee "profile", e.g. maybe they promoted refs who are easily "convinced" by players running up to them on the pitch, and that's why after a 10+ years of that the whole of La Liga is doing that. It's really as simple as that, but it should not be taken lightly.


TimTkt

Thanks for the very detailed and concise twitter thread, gonna spread it more often :)


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Proof of what? That they were paying vice president of referees for 20 years and they can't say what for?


petethemeat99

They have their explanation, what’s remaining is to see if it’s true or not


NYNMx2021

We know their explanation of reports is nonsense. Valverde and a rep for Guardiola told the athletic they never heard of any reports on the referee. Any reports were just cover for what was being paid for. The managers didnt know about them. Its just whether it can be proven what they paid for.


petethemeat99

If those reports do exist, somebody must have received them. I’m not supporting Laporta’s explanation, but if he’s willing to bet on that as his defending argument then he better find people who received those reports and also show copies of them.


NYNMx2021

Some reports exist and Barcelona has copies. Negreira's son also sent them to prosecutors. The thing is they dont seem to have been used for anything at Barca. Prosecutors say they are worthless and the tax authorities discarded them because they didnt match the payments.


saltybiped

So they made fake reports and not good one?


NYNMx2021

Almost certainly. They made reports they claim were on referee tendencies for the team yet the managers never saw any such report.


TheEmperorsWrath

We're all trying to find the guy who did this!


10messiFH

i'm tired joan


arun111b

Take rest my friend:-)


bomdia10

Looks in mirror…


chelsea524

Just look at a fucking mirror.


candlecup

The Prosecution would now like to call a mirror to the stand, your honor


Gotanyfunkopops

Spoken like a true sociopath, lol.


Indiana-Cook

"Of course I know him, he's me!"


OnceUponAStarryNight

🍿


NinjaBatHat

https://imgur.com/gallery/EVswN


uchiha_boy009

He’s a politician alright


may_day06

Mess of a club


FCOranje

Messi off a club


Wells99

Of course I know him, he's me!


DepletedMitochondria

Spiderman meme


Tierst

He means the ex-Barca presidents right?


dghjncddvnj

Today, I feel innocent


Tilman_Feraltitty

So the bad press is working, my bet is Spotify is fucking furious with Barca, lmao.


Lilfai

The world doesn't work like that, sounds like a fantasy you just conjured up in your head.


Tilman_Feraltitty

yeah, spotify must be delighted to get involved with a club that paid the refs No one says better than corporate friendly advertisement in sports like "we cheated and bought refs"


ActuallyJohnTerry

They sponsored Barca because Barca is a massive brand with a massive global fan base That hasn’t changed and I don’t think the fans care much about all of this


nauett

Maybe you're right but I think you have too much faith in the morals of a big company who just want to make money. Barcelonas reach far outweighs any negative press that will come from association


LudereHumanum

It's not about morals, it's business. Once a brand gets toxic it gets dumped, see Kanye making billions for Adidas, but was dumped eventually. For the record, I don't think Spotify *will* dump Barca, but if they did, it's about losing money, not values.


MUTATIS_MUTANIES

The real world doesn't work like that. Nike didn't ditch the Qatar national team due to its bad press. When have you seen any company being 'furious' about stuff like this?


LudereHumanum

Adidas dumping Kanye?


Yvraine

They dropped him for the stuff he is doing right now. And celebrating Hitler in public interviews is a little more of a woopsie than paying football referees. Barca paid refs 20 years ago, how does that in any way reflect negatively on their sponsors?


jedifolklore

What do mean?? It’s obviously good for the brand/s They’ll get more streams like that


Yvraine

Why though? Barca is constantly in the news = more exposure. It's not like Spotify is getting bad PR, why would they


duded101

tilman_feraltitty strikes again on another barca thread


Tilman_Feraltitty

still less involvement than Barca board with ref officials


duded101

probably not i’ve seen you hating on barca and messi (since he’s left) since like 2019 when i first joined this subreddit. every negative thread about barca i see you there. idk what barca have done to you but damn, it must be deep


HaroldSaxon

Even if what you said was true, 2019 is still way after Barca started paying off referees so they're still right


RockyCasino

Welcome to the Bribify Camp Nou


10messiFH

lol i doubt spotify is losing any revenue because of this. it would only affect them if barca got relegated


Pires007

This might qualify as a ground for contract termination


daanluc

How?


JoshyyJosh10

Don’t listen to them lol, idk if y’all follow Major League Baseball but if the fucking Astros who were actually caught cheating didn’t get penalized or trophy removed, what makes people think this is going to happen to a bigger brand like Barcelona.


champ19nz

Someone tell this guy about Juventus.


Jaguarluffy

someone tell the guy about the steelers, the patriots, the broncos, chelsea, man city, the astros, and the giants


Pires007

How are you going to relegate teams with no second division. Also, everyone hates the Astros, and Patriots now, so prepare to join that group.


Jaguarluffy

and the astros just won the world series - and the patriots' won 3 superbowls after - they won one in the same season tom brady was suspended


swefalittlebit

*glares at the mirror menacingly*


KloppTheUnyielding

"I measure this taint from my grundle to my bribery chute"


IMKudaimi123

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this


Bentic

Getroffene Hunde bellen.


CrackHeadRodeo

Buy this man a mirror ¡AHORA!


CoochieSnotSlurper

As if he isn’t liable lol


vAaEpSoTrHwEaTvIeC

"... and shake their hands"


raspoutine049

Laporta: look at me, I am the real crook now.


idonotstutter

Lowest of the low, those crooks. Just a notch above Toby


MNome

does he have a mirror


Equationist

I don't see any defending this. The most charitable interpretation is that they really were naive enough not to see a conflict of interest in hiring the company of the vice president of the referee federation...


DamashiT

It's called a mirror, Joan.


Sawl23

Be aware of mirrors for a while my man


HippoBigga

I'd like to see him get in the octagon lol


el_rompe_toyotas-19

This guy


nakedjabirupangolin

What's this victim complex bullshit. It comes off more as a thug threatening more thuggery to cover up old thuggery.


d_smogh

Trumpesque statement. *drain the swamp* and *lock her up*.


SufficientSwim7200

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” says man in hotdog costume.


KneeDeepInTheDead

Reminds me of the video when the mom opens her sons package and finds a bong and he denies it the whole time.


mark_vorster

Spiderman meme


IntellectualDweeb

*Many men, wish death upon me* *Blood in my eye dawg and I can't see* *I'm trying to be what I'm destined to be* *And crooks trying to take my life away*


Amsssterdam

Does anyone have an update? Like will they get sanctions? And does that mean they're trophies from the past will be taken away?


er_primo_der_rafa

FIFA and UEFA could ban them from European competitions. Apart from that, I don't know if the local authorities or LaLiga could do something more than just fining them.


idonotstutter

They are just gonna save us from the heartbreak


JoshyyJosh10

Considering we aren’t winning the CL anytime soon, they can go ahead and ban us for a year 😂


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Not getting enough money from UCL hurts you a lot already. Getting ban would even more because you would need to reducy salaries as well.


JoshyyJosh10

Agreed, but it’s looking like it’s heading that way tho


Axbris

You and I both know those trophies aren't going anywhere anytime soon. This is never about trophies. It is always about money. They will sanction them, get the fines, and Barcelona will carry on. Like any other entity that breaches rules.


II_MrBlack_II

As per [Cristian Zarroca Blanco](https://www.ccma.cat/esport3/quines-consequencies-pot-tenir-el-cas-negreira-per-al-barcaa-de-la-multa-a-la-dissolucio/noticia/3217508/) a lawyer specializing in sports law said Barca cannot be relegated to the second division because of the Negreira case, nor excluded from tournaments nor points deduction. Those sports penalties, according to the law, lapse by statute of limitations 3 years after the incident. Champions League ban is the greatest threat, as there is an article in the UEFA regulations that requires compliance with ethical standards by not participating in the conclusion of agreements to determine the results of matches, and UEFA has made it clear that in this case it does not need a court ruling to apply this penalty, which will be for one season but Barca can appeal this penalty if it is applied to the sports authorities, starting with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), based on the absence of a judicial ruling for this penalty. Currently the public prosecutor has only the charge of oral agreement, and there does not seem to be evidence to support that, and this is surprising in the absence of wiretapping of calls, messages, documents or witnesses, and the club must focus in defense on the lack of Evidence, but it may appear upon investigations. Currently the public prosecutor has only the charge of oral agreement, and there does not seem to be evidence to support that, and this is surprising in the absence of wiretapping of calls, messages, documents or witnesses, and the club must focus in defense on the lack of Evidence, but it may appear upon investigations. If the accusation is proven, the maximum penalty for the club will be a financial fine. As for the accused individuals, they may be imprisoned for a period of 6 months to 4-5 years with financial fines.


B-lights_B-Schmidty

>Champions League ban is the greatest threat So it'll just be a normal season for us then except no group stage this time lol


stragen595

Miss the annual Bayern meeting though. But maybe Arsenal can fill in then.


therock204

bring it baby. beat us 10-2 only to face villareal in the semis...


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Tilman_Feraltitty

The payments are already proven, Barca says it was for "consulting".


Ronalpinhos

They only need to prove that Barsa was attempting to get favourable results with their payments, just the attempt is enough to convict the presidents and the club they do not need to prove that they actually got their way. I am sure Rosell and Bartomeu are fucked, Spain is a joke of a country but when you start appearing on TV as a corrupt person the judiciary tends to put people in prison for a long time, just look at what happened with PP and PSOE politicians in the past. The club per see will likely have to pay a fine since they cannot sanction them in sports terms, they can only fine them, make them temporarily cease operations or dissolve them. The last two are incredibly unlikely since is FC Barcelona one of Spain's most prominent institutions both nationally and internationally. The interesting thing is that once they get de guilty verdict FIFA and UEFA will have the chance to deny them the invitation to play European competitions for "reputational damage" which would mean that with their current finances the possibility of the club being forced to become a SAD and not being fan-owned anymore. Lastly, the stadium renovation project financing is currently frozen since they still haven't secured the funds and with the current climate, no party is willing to lend the billions they need.


jack64467

lol we literally cant get trophies taken away since it was over 3 years ago


zeekoes

I agree with you on that they're likely safe, but is that really something you should be proud of right now?


met5abel

I been seeing this narrative a lot recently but wasn’t what Tebas said something along the lines of we can’t open an investigation because the 3 years passed but if the prosecution office runs an investigation and proves something than sporting sanctions will allowed again.


txobi

La Liga cannot do that but the court can order administrative punishment


Amsssterdam

>lol we literally cant get trophies taken away since it was over 3 years ago That's good to hear, Messi's 'most trophies ever' record will still count 🔥


Jaguarluffy

dani alves record


LewsTherin177

That documentary alleged that it was Laporta who doubled payments to those refs during their golden era. He should be more worried about going to prison, and having all their success in the last 20 years removed from the record.


LeDamascener

CALL AN AMBULANCE, BUT NOT FOR ME😮‍💨


Orkus9551

uhhh, so who's gonna tell the fuckwad 😐?


deanochips

surely he will see them at the next board meeting


LeAnthonyJavis

He should look in the mirror


franko2707

Don't worry, just pull those levers


iGotEDfromAComercial

Even if they’re proven guilty, I’m fairly certain that La Liga can’t impose sporting sanctions, so their trophy record is likely to remain untouched. However, if they are proven guilty those trophies will probably be looked upon like people look at Barry Bonds single season home run record.


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TheOwlsLie

Not really


approvalInspector

lmaooo


Cpt-Dreamer

Criminal


mynamestartswithCa

My president 😎


ASuarezMascareno

I'm pretty sure that, despite what the press or reddit might say, if Barca leaves this mess untouched, people will make him emperor of Catalunya or something.


NateShaw92

Your predecesor. Allegations true or not he is the one you want regardless.


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dudududujisungparty

Laporta quadrupled the payments lol


banana-is-apeeling

Based President