Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, has requested an official clarification from La Vanguardia regarding the allegations made against him and La Liga on Monday morning.
The Catalan newspaper, which has previously received payments from Barcelona as part of Barcagate, ran a front-page story on Monday accusing La Liga and its president of fabricating evidence against the club as part of the Caso Negreira revelations.
According to them, whenever the names “Josep Maria” and “Rosell” were mentioned, La Liga submitted evidence intended to implicate former Presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu. When confronted with the La Vanguardia report, Tebas criticized it as being untrue.
On Monday afternoon, Barcelona issued a strongly worded statement requesting Tebas’ resignation, citing his obsession, manifest dislike, and campaign against the club.
Tebas then made a direct reference to Barcelona in a tweet, where he published an official letter to La Vanguardia demanding a retraction.
The hard-working team of editors at www.atspo.com have sighted a caption from the President of La Liga, Javier Tebas, @Tebasjavier, which points out the need for rectification.
Tebas’ tweet reads, “@FCBARCELONA_ES, before submitting the brief to the Prosecutor’s Office, the legal counsel of @LaLiga informed the Delegate Commission on February 21, of the content of the brief and its documents. Right of rectification requested to @LaVanguardia Clarified, and you?”
The original documents sent to the Prosecutor’s Office are quoted in the tweet, which states that they submitted the document “without any intention of speculation, nor does it represent an accusation against anyone in particular.”
Within three days, the official letter demands that La Vanguardia publish a rectification of their article in all of the same places and with the same prominence as the original, indicating that the article has been changed.
The letter concludes by threatening to use the legal tools at their disposal if La Vanguardia does not comply. The feud between Tebas and Barcelona over El Caso Negreira appears to be going on for a while, with both sides asking the other to resign.
