Barcelona president Joan Laporta has hit back to LaLiga counterpart Javier Tebas over the Negreira case.

Tebas has called for Laporta to resign if it is shown Barca paid former ref Enriquez Negreira's company for advice on match officials.

Laporta held a media conference today on the Nou Camp pitch and declared: “I have to state that Mr. Thebes has already come to the fore once again. Some of you have already told us that it seemed that Mr. Tebas was already promoting a reputational campaign against Barça and against me. And in fact we ask him. He now he has already taken off his mask.

"Tebas has already shown his anti-Barcelonism, his phobia and his obsession against Barça. In case anyone doesn't know, in 2005, when I was president, he made a complaint so that (Lionel) Messi wouldn't play for Barça when he was vice president of Alavés. And he has had a track record of an obsession with Barca.

"I know that you do not forgive that we have not signed the agreement with CVC, an agreement that he promotes and controls; and we couldn't sign that because it wasn't good for Barça's interests. Nor does it support that we are in the Super League. Mr. Tebas has expressed his wish that I stop being president of Barça. What he wants is to dominate Barça from a distance, something he has done in recent years.

"I will not please Mr. Thebes. We are doing well and Mr. Thebes appears recurrently to destabilize us. I won't please Tebas because Barça is one of its partners."

He also said: “Whoever dedicates himself to dirtying the history of Barça will have a forceful response from the club. As much as it takes. The history of Barça has been cemented through spectacular football. They have all worked hard to achieve excellence when it comes to playing. And as president and the whole club, we will not allow these attempts to dirty our history and they will receive a strong response."