Barcelona - an organization of cheats?

Barcelona has made secret hidden deals, tried to avoid taxes (tax fraud), has numerous players guilty of tax fraud yet religiously supports their illegal behaviors, have taken referee baiting to new levels, including now surrounding ref at almost ever call, always crying fouls saying ref is biased towards other team when it appears the exact opposite is true and now boycotting FIFA awards as they feel their best player was unjustly treated poorly (despite the fact that his on the field performance does not measure up to his previous seasons).

Isn't it time, the footbol world started holding this organization accountable for their disgusting behavior?

I'm pretty sure Real does most of this as well. The difference is Perez is doing a great job covering it up.

Apart from the crying and ref-crowding - I agree this is ridiculous.

Don't understand how they boycott FIFA awards though??

All i know is, they played amazing football 2008-10

You have been listening to Harmonica too much. All this nonsense of Perez influence is just poor loser mentality!

You / they have claimed the tax fraud of Messi is the same as Ronaldo yet the only similarity is they both had off shore income, One declared it and the other didn't!!!

You have claimed the youth signing violations were the same yet Barca admitted it while Perez successfully explained why their actions were not violations of the rules.

Just because your organization insists on breaking rules, does not in any way suggest others do the same.

Madrid also didn't appear at FIFA gala in 2012, they also chose to prepare for Copa del Rey match vs Malaga.

matpol wrote:Madrid also didn't appear at FIFA gala in 2012, they also chose to prepare for Copa del Rey match vs Malaga.

Haha how do you still remember that? I remember that like yesterday!

Was an amazing match though, Malaga's golden season

This will end well.

Glass houses, stones etc

Doc wrote:The boycotting is probably the oddest one there. Honestly not sure why they are thinking that is a good idea.

We are trailing Bilbao in the Copa del Rey, and the results for this gala are already known and public. Pretty clear to me what should take priority here.

Who cares.

And LOL at this thread, typical GL trash.

Wondered where Super Floren had been

Find it weird that people still get angry at football like this lol.

Grow up.

lol bunch barca and madrd are as shit as each other. everything the op mentioned is what madrid have done in past seasons too.

lol at the bunchs of these 2 shit clubs trying to argue who is shitter. football world would be better off without both.

BORUSSIA!! wrote:lol bunch barca and madrd are as shit as each other. everything the op mentioned is what madrid have done in past seasons too.

lol at the bunchs of these 2 shit clubs trying to argue who is shitter. football world would be better off without both.

Why are you always angry?

Old people this is why we locked our grandma in basement until she died.

What do you expect from a club that has openly supported a criminal in his tax maneuverings lol?

ES wrote:What do you expect from a club that has openly supported a criminal in his tax maneuverings lol?

How many Key dribbles did Messi have vs the Tax Men?

I've not seen him this contained since Inter stifled Barcelona.

futbol_bill wrote:Barcelona has made secret hidden deals, tried to avoid taxes (tax fraud), has numerous players guilty of tax fraud yet religiously supports their illegal behaviors, have taken referee baiting to new levels, including now surrounding ref at almost ever call, always crying fouls saying ref is biased towards other team when it appears the exact opposite is true and now boycotting FIFA awards as they feel their best player was unjustly treated poorly (despite the fact that his on the field performance does not measure up to his previous seasons).

Isn't it time, the footbol world started holding this organization accountable for their disgusting behavior?

what's this part mean? messi wasn't as good this past year as his previous years? even if that is true, that necessarily doesn't mean he wasn't the best individually out of everyone else.

he isn't competing against himself, he's meant to be compared to all other players and individually he was better than everyone as usual. then again it makes sense to measure messi on such high standards, he's far above everyone. but it's still not logical.

nice spin you put on it there for that part. you know yourself and you're too embarrassed to state that useless twat ronaldo was not deserving of any genuine individual award. but that's not how the criteria is. simply be a passenger in your team, play on the bench, contribute nothing and whore yourself to the media and you'll get these awards.

you're a fan of a fraud who leeches off other people's hard work.

Sanchez plead guilty today to tax fraud btw, has already paid the money back though

The Arsenal striker confirmed in court via a video link that he cheated the Spanish taxman out of almost £900,000 during his spell at Barcelona.

Spanish prosecutors said Sanchez, 28, avoided paying tax by “simulating” the transfer of his image rights to Numidia, an offshore shell company in Malta.

Barca DNA
La Taxia

Mes que (un) tax

You guys are pretty naive if you think it's only Barca players. The tax authorities are going after Messi, Alexis, Masche, etc so that people think "if they get Messi they can also get me" and are deterred from doing it, but the football world is so shady and corrupt I'm sure this is very common in Spain and other leagues as well.

Not that I'm excusing it in any way, just to be clear.