there will not be directives meal next Saturday on the occasion of the Clásico being held at the Santiago Bernabéu. The reason is strained relationship that exists between the two clubs, which on other occasions already caused this to be suspended traditional institutional meeting before both teams faced each other.
Relationships are gone gradually deteriorating since the ‘Negreira case. Laporta does not understand that Real Madrid took part in the case against Barcelona as they felt harmed by those actions of the Barça club by paying Enríquez Negreira for some alleged arbitration reports when he was the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees.
Florentino and Laporta in the Bernabéu box.
“I want to refer to the presence of a club, on its own, as a private accusation in the trial. A club that says it feels harmed. A club that has always been favored by referee decisions. “It is an exercise in unprecedented cynicism,” said Laporta last year when Real Madrid appeared in the case.
A deteriorated relationship
From then on the distancing has been evident. Relationships are not broken between the two entitiesaccording to sources from the Barça club, but there is a great distanceand institutional coldness. With other teams like Sevilla they are absolutely broken and in fact last weekend there was no meal among the Board of Directors on the occasion of the Seville club’s visit to Montjuïc.
We must not forget that despite the distancing caused by the Negreira case, Real Madrid and Barcelona have many common interests in the world of football. One of them is the Super League and for this reason neither of the two clubs will completely break relations with the other.
