'Resign NOW!': Barcelona launch scathing attack on 'obsessed' Tebas

Suraj Radia

• 3 Apr 2023 16:05 BST
• 3 min read

Barcelona have called on Javier Tebas to resign from his role as president of La Liga after he presented ‘false information’ about the club, with the Catalan side claiming he has an ‘obsession’ and dislike’ for them.

Tebas has been a long-standing critic of Barcelona and the La Liga chief was accused by Spanish outlet La Vanguardia of sending false evidence to prosecutors about the club and their recent scandal surrounding payments to a former referee.

Barcelona released a statement expressing their ‘deepest indignation, anger and dismay’ over the report about Tebas, which they believe was an effort to incriminate the club with false evidence, in contrast to his ‘usual nonsense’ of ‘using the media’ to ‘damage’ Barca.

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The statement read: “Given the gravity of the information that has appeared today Monday in La Vanguardia in which the La Liga president Javier Tebas is linked to the presentation of false evidence to the public prosecutor to incriminate our club, FC Barcelona wishes to expresses its deepest indignation, anger and dismay.

“For that reason, we require the La Liga president urgently to appear in public to explain himself, beyond the tweet sent in the early hours by Mr. Tebas, lacking study and with a threatening veneer.

“FC Barcelona, as president Joan Laporta repeated in recent weeks, feels itself to be the victim of a media campaign for events that never took place: Barça has never paid referees.

“This harassment involves a group of media outlets and opinion writers with varying degrees of intent and with La Liga fanning the flames behind the scenes against out Club, with contributions from its president who has only gone in one direction: trying to condemn us in the public's eyes before the facts have been judged.”

“It is not the first time that the president of La Liga has used the media weapons at his disposal to damage FC Barcelona, however, in contrast to his usual nonsense, we could never have imagined that he could try to incriminate our club with false evidence."

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Tebas has regularly criticised Barca for spending beyond their means, which has seen the club’s wage bill balloon to a level that has led to La Liga banning them from registering new players.

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However, the club have also been charged with sending payments to former Vice President of the Referees Committee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, something which Barcelona claim was for statistical consulting.

“The article published today by La Vanguardia is of such gravity that it should put all the clubs in La Liga on alert, given that is talks of practices which are in no way consistent with the job of the president of La Liga.

“If only for this fact, that of giving himself powers that do not belong to him, although also for reasons of dignity and respect for the presidency of La Liga, Mr.Tebas should resign his post.

“Nevertheless, aware of his obsession with persecuting FC Barcelona and showing his constant averse and manifest dislike of our Club, we understand that the current La Liga president will persist in his efforts to keep damaging our club.”