MADRID, SPAIN – MAY 21: Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, participates in a discussion on “Technology, Piracy, and Artificial Intelligence in Sports” during the ISDE Sports Convention at the Official College of Architects of Madrid on May 21, 2026, in Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Irina R. Hipolito/Europa Press via Getty Images) | Europa Press via Getty Images
La Liga president has hit out at Real Madrid over the Negreira Case in a post on X in which he criticised Real Madrid TV and some journalists.
Real Madrid have recently announced they have sent a dossier to UEFA regarding the case and Barcelona and want a quick outcome.
In the meantime, the club’s TV channel regularly criticizes the refereeing in La Liga, something Tebas says is “outrageous.”
“I still think exactly the same about the Negreira case: what happened was extremely serious and must be investigated to the very end. But it’s one thing is to investigate facts that ended years ago, and quite another to build, in 2026, the narrative that Negreira continues to influence Spanish refereeing today. That’s outrageous. And repeating it from Real Madrid TV doesn’t make it true,” he posted on X.
“Precisely for that reason, a judicial procedure has existed for years: to clarify whether the payments made had an influence on the refereeing system, particularly on referees’ promotions and relegations, and to determine whether those facts may constitute sporting corruption and generate the corresponding criminal liabilities.
“Let the judges investigate, let all the evidence be examined, and let it be taken to the end. But, in the meantime, what do some people want? For us to eliminate FC Barcelona and its current leaders from LALIGA’s life? For LALIGA to replace the courts, issue its own verdict, and execute a penalty before there is a judicial resolution?”
Tebas went to to say that the constant haranguing of match officials “isn’t pursuing the truth” and is simply “trying to keep the narrative alive.”
“Moreover, in the context of Spanish sporting discipline, the facts are time-barred. This has also been explained many times. One can be extremely tough on what happened—I have been from the very first moment—and at the same time refuse to accept the poisoning of the narrative that, so many years after those facts ended, Negreira continues to influence Spanish refereeing,” he added.
“That isn’t pursuing the truth. It’s trying to keep a narrative alive. The facts are serious enough not to need inventing others.that is what http://Real.Madrid tv, @DAlvarez1976 , @Paul_Tenorio, @MelchorRuizCope does.”
La Liga resumes this weekend with Barcelona sitting top of the table in Spain, five points clear of Atletico and Real Betis in second and third and six ahead of Real Madrid in fourth.