The local press isn't being kind to him, saw the headline "Florentino and Laporta, two peas in a pod".
A broke Barcelona is about to win 3 out of the last 5 la liga titles. This is absolutely shameful for Real Madrid.
🚨 @RadioMARCA: "Real Madrid's reaction to the Negreira case? The truth is, if it was Real Madrid that paid millions to the VP of referees during 17 years, Barcelona would literally be holding protests in the streets." pic.twitter.com/xMgkZsZb5m— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) December 16, 2025
😡 @ManuCarreno se CANSA de las quejas arbitrales por parte de Madrid y Barça👉 "Real Madrid y Barça son los clubes menos indicados para andar quejándose de los árbitros todos los días. Cada semana estamos con el mismo ROLLO"❌ "Son los clubes que MENOS deberían quejarse" pic.twitter.com/NLSkS4AD14— El Larguero (@ellarguero) December 15, 2025
Football is this weird world where this coach takes a corporate job that pays better than his prior 60 to 80 hour week, involves him working from home a lot and allows him to spend a ton of time with his family and people ask "why would you do that?" more than anything. The most insane sport.
It is funny. Both fanbases are absolutely convinced the other team cheats and that the league is against the other.
I don't buy this balanced view, sorry. I think the topic of 'regular fanbase fueds' and 'possible fraud' should be separated. It is clear that one team is being accused of making significant payments to a certain invididual of influence that are not substantiated nor accounted for. Real Madrid nor Getafe (or any other club) have anything to do with it, nor should they be included in this conversation. This is about Barca, nothing more and nothing less. Save the "both fanbases" stuff for a different topic.
And there should have been punishment for the Negreria stuff. But that ended what, in 2018? Right now there is no evidence of either club cheating yet both fanbases point at one another. We could be right, they could be right, both could be wrong. It doesn’t matter. My point refers to fanatic behavior where there is an innate need to be the good guy and for the rival to be the bad guy no matter what evidence or lack thereof exists. The same conviction that we have that they cheat, and they very well could, they and other fanbases have about us. so yes, it is a commentary on fanatic behavior more than pointing out whether none, one, ot both sides are cheating
What is funny is one club actually has an on-going investigation for decades if referee buying which everyone knows they are guilty. Lastly it's low IQ to always point the finger whenever an accusation comes out as if it makes it okay as long as others "did it too". That is the comprehension of a child. "Well he did it too!". Only a child is acceptable of using that as an excuse and only losers at life go through their life using that as a reason to rationalize bad behavior or circumstances. Are you a loser J? A resent filled failure? If not why are you shaping your mind to process like how only one would think?
a loser? Quite the opposite. My successes and failures are my responsibility. I teach my kids that everything that happens to them in life (barring some incredible accidental circumstances), they’ll likely have played a part of it. At some point, they had an action that helped lead to this outcome. That’s how you take accountability and responsibility for your life. Not sitting around saying you are not where you want to be because of him, or her, or this or that. The world will not stop for you to play victim. You deal with the cards you get. im not defending Barcelona. It is clear that they cheated. They should have been punished and it’s ridiculous that they play victim. But I won’t waste my time playing victim as I support the richest most historic club in the world to which players dream of playing for and that has tremendous influence in the sport, perhaps the most. I’m not going to waste my breath worrying about the ref didn’t call this pk in the Alaves game when we should be crushing those guys. When we have every advantage over those guys. At the end of the day, we won titles during the Negreria years and in some we didn’t, we had injuries or made bonehead managerial decisions. If we win or lose, it’s on us. If not, then why waste time watching the sport? if just tuning in and holding my team accountable for wins and losses makes me a loser, then so be it.
Club is right in going deep in this Negreira case. I would actually be pissed off if they just let it go as if it were normal.
It isn't, we're just being loud about it because it's a welcome distraction for how poor we are for our recent standards and all our other institutional issues. Florentino doesn't want improvement he wants power and control. Everybody is aware of that.
The fans booed the team against City and didn't seem distracted by the Negreira case. Social media allows people to post 24/7 and there's plenty of time to discuss both Negreira and our poor form. Same for media outlets. They don't run just one story at a time. This is a good thing.
The club fired a coach during a title celebration and called him a week later to offer an explanation. The team became worse instead of better. To quote Matteo "maybe I should have complained about the referees more I guess". The cracks have been showing in this organization for a while. I was way ahead of the curve on the Vini stuff and trust my word I'll be ahead of the curve on that as well. People will come around to see it.
If we have an agreement with Lyon it would be the most ridiculous thing if he suffers an injury on some potato field pitch and misses significant time.
Yamal getting crushed on social media platforms for doing something extremely commonplace elsewhere. He's apparently in talks with Fanatics and other brands to sign an exclusive memorabilia deal with them. Meaning he will not sign anything elsewhere for anybody. I remember encountering this with the NFL the first time where we met players and they were down to take Fotos, talk, spend time but would refuse to sign ANYTHING outside of the sponsored events. That included even the third QB and other quirky "who?" type supplemental roster spot players. When they would do signings, it would either be official items bought directly from the Fanatics/NFL Store, or in case of a private signing, Items without any kind of brand or team branding on them (so called custom shirts provided for the event). I think as soon as a few players do this, everybody will. Dark times for parking lot hasslers.
Very touching but slightly misses the mark when don't call out a childish mentality of "we he did it to!". The same way life won't wait for you to play a victim it also requires consequences not excuses for bad decisions and actions. A child's mind level excuses to always point the finger whenever someone makes a valid claim should be something you mock in an able bodied Adult; not something you should ever support. You've missed my point. Again you sorely missed the point. Accountability isn't a one-way street and it isn't some trump card you pull out the second you don't like it being pointed in a direction you don't like. Again, that is the mind of adolescents because they know no better or lifetime failures because they never learned. I can imagine you telling a cop that you weren't the only person who was drinking and left to drive. Someone which such a mindset can help but be a failure.
I never said that they shouldn’t be held accountable and your example is reverse. I’m not telling the cops other do it too I’m just not gonna drink and drive and then call the cops to tell them I saw my neighbor drink and drive I’m not gonna support the biggest club with the most influence who spend more money on two players than some of these teams’ entire roster then call the league to complain about how I’m being screwed so it’s completely the opposite of what you are saying I’m doing. I’ll keep watching the team and holding them accountable for results that they should be getting and they have shown to be able to get even at the height of the Barcelona cheating corruption
It actually makes sense. The memorabilia market is hard to price and full of counterfeit items. The old way of doing it would be getting paid a session fee for signing a bunch of stuff and that is that. Now with exclusivity, it’s regulated as authentic and the prices will be maintained for the items and I’m guessing the athletes get a % on top of the session fee (and doing less of them). A win win for everyone tbh.
Barcelona have a bigger hate for Real Madrid than the other way around. I’m not even sure how obvious or nuanced this is, as I don’t have contact with people living in these regions. Barcelona’s identity is indeed linked to Catalan identity. No point discussing Catalan independence from Spain and all that stuff here. But Barcelona will bring up the victim card at any given opportunity so they sure will have made a huge deal if the roles were reversed with Negeira. Just for the record I’m not saying Catalan identity revolves around victimisation at all. But Barcelona’s sure does.