(Finance) – In addition to the hearing of the FIGC federal court of appeal which on Monday will have to reformulate the penalty for the capital gains case, comes another sporting process for the Juventus: the prosecutor of the Football Association has deferred the company black and white to the Federal National Court also for the salary maneuver. Juve and its managers are challenged violation of the article on sporting loyalty. I am four lines of investigation: the 2019-20 season salary maneuver; the one for the 2020-21 season; the vein agents; partnership relationships with other clubs. Proceedings in June.
The club was deferred for direct and objective responsibility “for the acts and behaviors put in place by its managers”. And in fact the referral was triggered for Andrea Agnelli (at the material time chairman of the board of directors), Pavel Nedved (then vice president), Fabio Paratici (at the time Chief Football Officer), Federico Cherubini (at the time Head of Football Teams & Technical Areas), Giovanni Manna (at the time DS of the Under 23), Paolo Morganti (head of Football Operations), Stefano Braghin ( DS of the youth sector at the time).
As regards the 2019-20 salary maneuver, Andrea Agnelli and Fabio Paratici are accused of violating art. 4 for having filed with Lega Serie A the 4-month reduction agreements (March, April, May and June 2020) of 21 players and coach Sarri Mauriziofailing to deposit the economic agreements for the integration or recovery of 3 of the 4 months renounced (April, May, June 2020) already concluded with the same players and with the coach, in the knowledge that the economic agreements were filed after 30.6. 2020, i.e. after the end of the accounting year, as actually happened then.
The same violation, and in this case Pavel Nedved is also among the managers under investigation, is contested for the 2020-21 season, in relation to the salary reduction agreements for amounts substantially equal to 4 months’ salary (March, April, May and June 2020) of 17 footballers.
As regards the third line of investigation, the accusation is that he violated the principles of loyalty, correctness and probity – in collaboration with some agents – in relation to a series of transfers, contract renewals or signing of a professional contract. In these various situations between 2015 and 2022, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the club: would have remunerated sports agents for player transfer operations in the absence of a real activity brokerage agent; in relation to the transfer of some players, he allegedly made use of a sports agent without any assignment of mandate; or in other cases he would have given a fictitious/untruthful mandate to another agent.
In this regard, a copy of the investigative documents relating to the conduct implemented by the agents under investigation (Davide Lippi, Gabriele Giuffrida, Giorgio Parretti, Antonio Rebesco, Luca Ariatti, Silvio Pagliari, Giuseppe Galli, Michele Fioravanti, Luca Puccinelli, Tullio Tinti, Vincenzo Morabito) was sent to the Federal commission for sports agentsas far as it is concerned.
Finally, in relation to the last aspect relating to the partnership relationshipsis disputed, the accusation is of having violated the principles of loyalty, correctness and probity, in relation to the fact of having negotiated, signed or in any case agreed with the Sampdoria, Atalanta, Sassuolo, Udinese, Bologna and Cagliari clubs confidential agreements concerning market transactions relating to the purchase and/or transfer and/or redemption of players, without filing the relevant federal forms with the Lega di Serie A and/or filing federal forms containing agreements in wholly or partially different from those actually concluded, thus maintaining a conduct of clear avoidance of federal legislation.