The attacks and accusations between Barcelona and Spanish league president Javier Tebas are far from over. (More Football News)
The latest spat on Monday was the club asking for Tebas' resignation after a report said the league gave false evidence against Barcelona to prosecutors in the refereeing scandal involving the Catalan clu🧔b.
Tebas had already claimed the report by La Vanguardia newsp💎aper was misleading and carried incorrect assumptions, but it was enough to reignite the vendetta♕ between the two sides.
“It is not the first time that the president of La Liga has used the media weapon🔯s at his disposal to damage FC Barcelona,” the club said in a statement.
“However, in c൲ontrast to his usual nonsense, we could never have imagin🔯ed that he could try to incriminate our club with false evidence.”
Barcelona said the article published by La Vanguardia “i𒀰s of such gravity that it should put all the clubs in La Liga on alert, given that it talks of practices which are in no way consistent with the job” of league president.
“If only for this fact, that o𓆉f 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 from his post,” the club sa🥀id.
“Neve﷽rtheless, 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.”
Tebas asked♐ for a correction by the newspaper, saying the article “includes assertions and erron𒆙eous information” which “seriously damage my honor" and “the image” of the Spanish league.
“While the headline is grossly misleading, in the Vanguardia article itself it states that La Liga explicitly does not seek to speculatꦡe nor accuse anyone with the documentation provided,” t🧔he league said.
Barcelona has claimed to be “the victim of a ജmedia campaign for events that never took place: Barça has never paid referees.”
Barcelona haꦓs been under scrutiny since it became public that the club paid millions of dollars for years to a company that belonged to the vice president of the country's refereeing committee.
The clu🥂b has denied wrongdoing, sa🐠ying the payments were for only technical reports, not to try to influence refereeing decisions.
“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 our 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,” Barcelona said.
Tebas has called for the resignation of Barcelona president Joan Laporta if he didn't properly explain the payments that were made by the club to the refereeing committ🐓ee official.
Barcelona has also been at odds with the league over the registeri🍸ng of playmaker Gavi into the main squad amid disagreement over the club's salary cap imposeౠd by the league.
Tebas over the years has also had spats with Real Madrid president Flo൲rentino Pérez ⛦and Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales.
