“Suffering from Barcelonitis” » Joan Laporta swears that “the referees, in general, do not favor us!”

After Real Madrid's lead at the top of La Liga shrank from five to just one point, Barcelona mustered up the courage to attack again. The president Joan Laporta did not miss the opportunity to take the championship leader over his feet. President Joan Laporta once again sent poisoned arrows at los blancos.

“Now that I am in Andorra, I remember the statements made at Real Madrid's General Assembly, which I have not yet had the opportunity to comment on. I think they are misplaced and reveal Madrid's obsession with Barcelona.

Joan Laporta, president of Barcelona / Photo: Imago

“In general, the referees do not favor Barça, but always Madrid”

It seems he has to talk about Barça to justify who knows what things. They are constantly present in the legal proceedings of the “Negreira Case”, which they spread like chewing gum, because they know that there is nothing to say, but it is a way to justify something that is not true.

Barça have never bribed a referee and referees generally do not favor Barça. They always had the advantage of Madrid. In the very last stage, they scored two goals that, in my opinion, the referee must cancel.

Bellingham made a clear hand and that helped him to score, and on the other, Vinicius broke Iñaki's nose. Those two goals should not have been awarded, and Barça would now be leading the championship.

Real Madrid TV tries to influence referees every week… It's shameful. You can't be cynical and decide that they favor Barça, you only have to look at the presidents of the Referees Committee, who have ex-managers or ex-players as their partners. What is said on TV is worth studying. To understand the sociological Madridism that exists, but not to become licentious and not to despise ourselves
– Joan Laportathe president of Barcelona

Laporta himself boasted of the Blaugrana's performances: “They have the mania of persecution against the best team in the history of Barcelona. They didn't like that Barça was a world reference from 2004 to 2015, when they dominated football, and they want to look for justifications that lead nowhere.

Laporta: “We were the team that played the best, respected for what we did and admired for how we did it!”

It was a splendid era. We were the team that played the best, recognized, respected for everything we did and admired for how we did it. We won many trophies and Barcelona's game was loved all over the world.

He was admired throughout the world, so that he no longer sought excuses from evil-payers. Barcelona won on their own merits.”

Florentino Perez (left) and Joan Laporta (right) / Imago Images

Joan Laporta mocked rival Floeentino Perez: “They've caught the Barcelonita. I'm delighted, because generally these are the times when Barça is successful and triumphant. If you talk about Barça, you distract yourself from other things that aren't going well.

Sometimes we panic, because Barça is recovering and we can have a splendid period that we want to minimize or despise, but we don't want to allow it. We will not let us face Barça unpunished”.

Joan Laporta wanted to reassure Catalan supporters that the financial crisis had passed: “The economic situation was complicated, but the club was saved. We are in a recovery process. Happiness has set in at Barcelona… and this kind of panic at Real Madrid so we can restart a splendid era.

Real Madrid is our rival, we have always respected them, but it is not possible that in their Assembly they despise us like that and say things that are not true at all.”