Bad weather on Juve.
We learn a little more every day about the vast investigation carried out by the Turin public prosecutor's office, launched in the more than in-depth study of the accounts (far from being clear) of the Piedmontese club.
On Thursday, UEFA announced the opening of an investigation against the future opponent of Nantes in the 16th final of the Europa League for possible breaches of the regulations of financial fair play, but also on the granting of licenses.
The Italian daily La Stampa has published conversations from telephone taps which reveal new elements on the accounting difficulties of the Old Lady.
In a pad of 500 pages, the prosecution has reconstructed the last three years of the Bianconeri.
Example of an exchange, that between Federico Cherubini, current sports director, and manager Stefano Bertola in 2021. “We were arrogant on the transfer market, launch the two men.
With Cristiano Ronaldo
(Editor's note: recruited for four years in 2018)
, our vicious circle has opened.
We used Pogba's money
(Editor's note: the 100 million paid by Manchester United for the transfer of the tricolor midfielder)
for two clauses”.
As a result, Juve found themselves facing debts that the 700 million euros injected by the owners over the past two years have not been enough to absorb.
Another even more eloquent discussion, that between the now former president Andrea Agnelli and the CEO Maurizio Arrivabene.
Both resigned on November 28 at the same time as the entire board of directors.
“It was not only the fault of the Covid and we know it very well, can we hear on the plays.
We cluttered the car with depreciation and, above all, m… Because all the m… that's underneath, we can't tell.
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According to Parquet, the former president speaks in crude terms of fictitious capital gains, part of the charges against the club and the leaders, which will be tried in the coming months.
We also learn that Cherubini kept a “black book” on the practices of his predecessor Fabio Paratici and his “insane signatures, out of reach investments, excessive use of artificial capital gains.
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Where is the 19.9 million euros for Cristiano Ronaldo?
The Corriere della Sera published a conversation between Fabio Paratici and Giovanni Corrado, general manager of Pisa, whom the ex-bianconero was trying to convince to take the young striker Lucca to Turin.
“You have to do the operation with me, he explains to her.
Believe me, I do it for Pisa too.
Just give me the instructions, I'll take care of the rest.
I've done it all my life for Genoa, Atalanta, Sassuolo.
I have the instructions, I do everything myself”.
For the investigators, this shows that there was an agreement with other formations to distort the market.
The prosecution is also closely interested in the alleged cuts in the emoluments of Turin footballers in 2020. Juventus had communicated on the renunciation of its players to four months' salary.
But some of them (Dybala, Danilo, Alex Sandro or Rabiot), heard by the Turin prosecutor, admitted that it was a fool's game and that they had been paid in the following year. without it being declared… The prosecution and the Consob (the State Commission in charge of monitoring companies listed on the Stock Exchange) obviously consider that this has distorted the balance sheets.
Not to mention Cristiano Ronaldo...
During searches, the Italian police got their hands on a document in which Juventus undertakes to pay 19.9 million euros to the Portuguese in the event of departure from Piedmont.
CR7 is well and truly gone (to Manchester United, which he has just left) but the 19.9 million euros in question do not appear in any balance sheet.
Juve still owe this sum to the Portuguese…
“Fortunately Ronaldo didn't leave any dangerous
pizzini
,” says Stefano Cerrato, the club's financial manager, who is unaware that he is being tapped.
A good dose of black humor.
The term, born in Sicily, refers to the small pieces of paper used by the Sicilian mafia to exchange secret messages…