Former Deportivo La Coruna president Augusto Cesar Lendoiro has been left bitterly disappointed by Barca-Gate.

Lendoiro has described Barcelona's alleged payments to a company belonging to former referee and ex-vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees José María Enríquez Negreira as “the worst news in the history of Spanish football".

“I think this is the worst news in the history of Spanish football, not only for Barcelona, due to the real global impact it has had. It is a missile in the waterline of our football," assured, Lendoiro, who is “convinced that things have only just begun" in this case being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office.

“Now the investigations, judicial and journalistic, will begin; they will determine the year the relationship began. It was already established during José Luís Nuñez's tenure (Barça president until 2000)," Lendoiro, who was president of Deportivo between 1988 and 2014, explained.

He also stated: “When the exact date of the beginning of the million-dollar professional relationship between Enríquez Negreira and Barcelona is known, there will be many clubs and fans, Deportivo and myself the first, who will remember certain incidents or those games against Barça, which we all have in memory, in which we had complained extremely harshly about the referee on duty. Back then, it was almost 'accepted' that 'referees always help the great clubs'."