Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu admitted that the entire controversy surrounding the transfer of Brazilian winger, Neymar, which forced the club to publicily detail a confidential transfer breakdown and pay over €9 million in back taxes as a result of the original lawsuit of misappropriation of funds brought forth by club member, Jordi Cases.
In an interview with the BBC’s David Bond, Bartomeu spoke about the events that have unfolded, which now sees him as the president of the club following the resignation of former president, Sandro Rosell and continuing to live with the embarrassment caused by the entire situation and contend they have done nothing wrong.
“It’s embarrassing because we think we are right. We think we did things properly, that everything was done in the correct and best way.
“Barcelona acted in the proper way but if somebody thinks that there is damage to the name of Barcelona then there is damage to be repaired.
“We are not happy with the situation but we will defend our club very strongly.”
Bartomeu went on to explain the reasons behind their “voluntary” €9 million payment to the Spanish government.
“We paid because of prudence, because there is a possible different interpretation. So we want to be prudent. We don’t want to take any risks.
“Barca is a very well known brand name in the world and we have to take care of Barca of the club and doing this is prudent situation to keep the good image of our club.
“We don’t agree with the judge, of course. For us, this is an absurd and unfair situation because we did everything correctly in signing Neymar to FC Barcelona.”
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