Joan Laporta blames Barcelona fans for ticket fiasco

An estimated 30,000

fans gained entry to the clubs'

tie last week at Camp Nou, despite only officially receiving 5,000 tickets.

This incident led to fan protests before the game against Cadiz on Monday. Even some fans chanted for Laporta to resign outside the stadium before kick-off.

"The club is not to blame for what happened against Eintracht, but it is responsible,"

Laporta said on Tuesday, speaking at a news conference.

"A group of members misused their season tickets, which they ceded to German fans.

"It is sad because we love this club, and it is hard to imagine season ticket holders giving their tickets to rival fans. But this happened, and it will be subject to analysis.

"There are around 7,000 members that purchased tickets with discount codes and [those tickets] ended up in German hands. We don't want it to become a witch hunt, but there is a lot of disappointment and we will look into possibly taking action.

"We didn't sell tickets to German fans beyond the 5,000 away tickets. Sales from Germany weren't allowed, and there were many people trying to buy tickets from there. The system of control worked up to a point, but some organized groups were able to breach the mechanisms in place.

"We inherited the system from the previous board. We thought it could work, but we have seen that for special games it doesn't.

"Tickets will now be non-transferrable for non-domestic matches and high-risk games. We are working on other measures so that it does not happen again.”

Laporta admits that

could handle the situation better.

"I am sure we could have done better,"

he added.

"It concerned us to see so many German fans arriving at the ground, but if we impeded them from entering, we would be talking about more serious incidents."

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