Juventus, sanctioned with 10 points in the classification for altering their accounts

Juventus has failed to lift its head this season. Beyond the poor sports results, the Federal Court of Appeals has again sanctioned the club with the withdrawal of 10 points in the current classification for the so-called capital gains case, in which the Italian club is accused of increasing the market value of the players to generate greater income in their transfers. Juventus had already been sanctioned with the withdrawal of 15 points, a sanction that had managed to dodge with an appeal in the first instance. A blow that sinks the team even more in the classification and seals one of the worst seasons in its recent history.

Juventus, it is now considered proven, altered its accounts through accounting tricks that attributed to players it exchanged with other clubs a value above the market. The capital gains, then, were fictitious and fraudulent. For this reason, several directors have also been sanctioned, including the one who was president of the club in recent seasons, Andrea Agnelli. The sanction will now alter the classification and move the Turinese irremediably away from the European positions in the table.

The club had been accused along with other clubs, such as Napoli, of increasing the market value of players to generate higher revenues by transferring them, thus achieving an unreal surplus value. The tax trick – used in 22 operations – allowed the club fictitious capital gains in fiscal year 20-21 and quarterly 2021. In this way, he was able to reduce losses, not recapitalize and, incidentally, reinforce the team with signings such as Cristiano Ronaldo.

One of the most important operations was carried out with FC Barcelona and consisted of exchanging Pjanic for the Brazilian Arthur, which also served to balance the accounts of the Catalan club. Another of the movements that are investigated is the exchange of Cancelo for Danilo with Manchester City, which provided the Turinese a capital gain of about 30 million euros. But the operations were also made with Italian clubs. In 2021, for example, Nicolò Rovella moved from Genoa to Juventus for 18 million euros. But from the Ligurian club came Manolo Portanova and Elia Petrelli for 10 and eight million, respectively. A move that gave a surplus value of 18 million to each team.

FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné, who has been handling the case since the beginning of 2022, requested this morning before the Court of Appeal the withdrawal of 10 points from Juventus in the Italian competition. The decision, which can still be appealed, has been a blow in the club, which was preparing to play its match against Empoli. "Called by the College of Guarantee of the Italian Olympic Committee to reformulate its assessment of the sanction imposed at the time on Juventus for the so-called capital gains case, the Federal Court of Appeal has sanctioned the Juventus club with ten penalty points in the classification to be fulfilled in the current sports season," the Italian Football Federation said.

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