{"id":5899,"date":"2026-04-09T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:15:10","slug":"you-all-know-my-opinion-on-what-continues-to-happen-real-madrids-alvaro-arbeloa-on-barcelona-and-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/you-all-know-my-opinion-on-what-continues-to-happen-real-madrids-alvaro-arbeloa-on-barcelona-and-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You all know my opinion on what continues to happen\u2019 \u2013 Real Madrid\u2019s Alvaro Arbeloa on Barcelona and referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/\">Real Madrid<\/a> manager Alvaro Arbeloa has implied that the officiating in Spain is not entirely neutral, referring back to the ongoing \u2018Negreira case\u2019 which sees Barcelona accused of sporting corruption. Previously he has referred to it as the biggest scandal in the history of football.<\/p>\n<p>Arbeloa was asked about Barcelona having a vastly different record of red cards in La Liga and in Europe in recent years. The Catalan side were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2026\/04\/09\/barcelona-atletico-champions-league-hansi-flick-reaction\">incensed by several decisions during their Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou all know my opinion about what has happened for so many years and continues to happen. I am not going to change my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EN DIRECTO: RUEDA de PRENSA de ARBELOA previa al REAL MADRID vs GIRONA | LALIGA EASPORTS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Nbeh0TeCFE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018We saw what happened last weekend\u2019 \u2013 Arbeloa<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\">\n<p>Asked whether he thought the decisions during their Champions League clash, Arbeloa pushed the conversation to the decision not to send off Gerard Martin during their meeting on Saturday night. The Referees Committee (CTA) later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2026\/04\/08\/cta-atletico-madrid-vindicated-over-barcelona-red-card-outrage\">acknowledged that sending Martin off was the correct decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to get into that kind of assessment. We\u2019ve already seen what happened last weekend and what continues to happen for many weeks. My opinion is there and I stand by it; it\u2019s what I keep seeing week after week.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Arbeloa on trust in referees<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\">\n<p>Arbeloa went on to insinuate that whatever forces are acting in Spain, were also acting in the Champions League, before returning to the topic of Negreira.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about trusting or distrusting. It\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing. It happened on Tuesday with the tackle on Mbappe. It\u2019s hard to understand why it wasn\u2019t a red card. It\u2019s even happening with VAR, which seemed like it was going to solve a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing back to Spanish football, we\u2019re still waiting for an explanation, and we need to fix it. There are a lot of doubts surrounding all these kinds of decisions. One week VAR intervenes, the next it doesn\u2019t. I try to focus on my job as a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona stand accused of sporting corruption after police investigated payments of \u20ac7-8m over a period of 17 years to CTA Vice-President Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira. The Blaugrana have vehemently denied any wrongdoing, calling it a smear campaign. So far the case is ongoing, with no verdict.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2026\/04\/09\/arbeloa-real-madrid-referees-barcelona\">&#8216;You all know my opinion on what continues to happen&#8217; &#8211; Real Madrid&#8217;s Alvaro Arbeloa on Barcelona and referees<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\">Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid manager Alvaro Arbeloa has implied that the officiating in Spain is not entirely neutral, referring back to the ongoing \u2018Negreira case\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}