Real Madrid Reignites Barcelona Attack, Officially Demands UEFA Reopen "Negreira Case" Investigation

Real Madrid has issued an official statement announcing that the club has submitted a report, prepared by its legal department, to UEFA regarding the so-called "Negreira case." The document is addressed to the disciplinary bodies of European football's governing body.

"In the aforementioned document, the club informs UEFA of the existence of substantial evidence that convincingly supports the indications, known from the outset, of prolonged, opaque, and unsubstantiated payments made by FC Barcelona to the former Vice-President of the Technical Committee of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, José María Enríquez Negreira, through various corporate structures," Real Madrid's statement reads.

The statement continues with exceptionally strong language regarding the case, which Florentino Pérez has described as "the most serious in the history of sports." "Real Madrid emphasizes that, from the perspective of sports disciplinary law, these facts represent a systemic risk of the highest degree to the integrity of competitions, as they reveal the existence of a structure for undue influence on the refereeing guild, incompatible with the fundamental principles of competitive equality, neutrality, impartiality, and the unpredictability of sporting outcomes."

In this context, Real Madrid insists on the immediate reopening of the disciplinary proceedings previously initiated by UEFA. The club considers it "unacceptable for this situation to have dragged on, as its continuation seriously compromises trust in football, its institutions, and its leaders." Therefore, the "royal club" demands "a firm, exemplary, and immediate response in a sporting aspect, regardless of the developments in ongoing judicial proceedings."

Real Madrid calls on UEFA, "in the exercise of its own, autonomous, and independent powers, to take appropriate disciplinary and restorative measures to ensure the integrity, transparency, and proper functioning of competitions, without in any way replacing the function of state judicial bodies or prejudging the criminal classification of the facts." In this regard, Real Madrid, which is constituted as a private prosecutor in the ongoing criminal proceedings, will continue to take appropriate action at every stage of the process.

"Real Madrid reaffirms its commitment to defending the fundamental values of sport and will continue to initiate all necessary actions to ensure that such acts do not go unpunished," concludes the club's official statement.