El Mundo: "Seven Valladolid players were bought" in match fixing probe
The players are said to have thrown the game against Valencia last month
The newspaper El Mundo has revealed recordings which reveal the extent of the match-fixing in Real Valladolid's game against Valencia in the final game of the La Liga season. "There were seven players bought, no one else," is one of ex-player Carlos Aranda's phrases which has been intercepted by the police.
Aranda was so sure what was going to happen in the game between Valencia and Valladolid that on the day of the game he phoned an employee in Malaga and advised him: "Bet 10,000 euros and you will win 20,000."
"Look, brother, Valencia to win the first half and the second half, OK?," is another comment made by Aranda in one of the conversations now in the hands of the police, according to the transcript offered by El Mundo.
The same media outlet says the courts now have six months of telephone recordings in their hands as they look into the match-fixing and illegal betting scandal which has rocked Spanish football.
El Mundo also reveals conversations between Aranda and a friend: "Look, Valencia to win the first half and the second half, OK? Listen to me: to win the first and second half, OK? Not that they win, they have to score in both halves. Look, you know what it is, but no one can find out, but you know what it is. No one is no one. No one. Not your friends. No one"
Aranda and Raul Bravo are currently out on bail after leaving prison in Zaragoza. In the same situation is the president of Huesca, Agustín Lasaosa, and ex-player, Íñigo López, who's believed to be the intermediary between the players and the bosses of the operation.
