Overview
- Real Madrid formally lodged a dossier with UEFA on Wednesday asking the organisation to reopen the prior disciplinary file into the “Negreira” payments and to impose disciplinary and restorative measures against FC Barcelona.
- The club says the document, prepared over roughly two years and reported at about 500 pages, details prolonged, opaque payments from Barcelona to former CTA vice‑president José María Enríquez Negreira routed through multiple corporate structures.
- Real Madrid insists UEFA should act independently of the ongoing Spanish criminal case and notes the club remains a private plaintiff in that prosecution.
- Barcelona has responded with legal and institutional steps: it filed a prior conciliation against Florentino Pérez, warned it will bring a criminal complaint if conciliation fails, and asked LaLiga, the RFEF and the CTA to publicly defend its reputation.
- UEFA has consistently said it usually waits for a definitive judicial sentence before intervening, so the next key developments to watch are any UEFA decision on reopening the file and milestones in the Spanish criminal proceedings that could trigger sporting action.