As part of the Baragate, the guard close to the former president of FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, finds himself accused of having insulted Lionel Messi and leaked his contract in early 2021.
Josep Maria Bartomeu was the president of Bara between 2014 and 2020.
And 2021. For lack of sufficient finances, FC Barcelona renounced to extend the best player in its history, Lionel Messi, who left free at the end of his contract.
If the Blaugrana’s economic difficulties remained very real, it should be remembered that this decision also had its source in a very particular context with the disclosure six months earlier by the newspaper El Mundo of the lease of the Pulga 550 million euros, accused of to have ruined Catalan finances.
Orchestral leaks at the top?
At the time, many observers wondered about the origin of these leaks, and we now know much more about the subject. Based on the investigation carried out by the Spanish police within the framework of Baragate, the newspaper El Periodico thus points the finger this Thursday at the ex-president Josep Maria Bartomeu and his entourage! It also wouldn’t be a bad idea to publish the first team’s millionaire contracts so people can publicly repudiate them.wrote former Barcelona legal director Romn Gmez Ponti in an email addressed to Bartomeu when they were still in office in March 2020.
Obviously, the objective of this maneuver was to damage the image of the Pulga and several executives with the fans to increase the pressure on their shoulders and encourage them to lower their wages or even pack their bags in order to reduce the payroll. In short, one more weapon alongside the smear campaign operates on social networks and the origin of the Baragate. The problem is that these leaks are illegal and the former leaders could be prosecuted for disclosure of secrets.
Messi insult internally
Behind the declarations of love in public, the revelations of El Periodico in any case confirm that Messi was no longer in the odor of sanctity in the eyes of Bartomeu, who finally resigned in October 2020, and his inner circle . In a conversation on WhatsApp, Ponti would have described the sevenfold Ballon d’Or as taste rat and of dwarf with hormones who owes his life to the Bara…
Guilty of inflammatory remarks after the defeat against Bayern Munich (2-8) in the quarter-finals of the 2019-2020 Champions League, another taulier, Gerard Piqu, was treated by Ponti forvery example of son of a bitch without any scruples. And the contract for the recent withdrawal will also leak to the press in September 2022…
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