World Cup played in December is a unique situation for football clubs around the world. Most leagues are on a standby mode and many clubs are training with their available players, but there is nothing to reports, since the focus in in Qatar. And that applies for all…except Juventus. The Old Lady in at the beginning of its worst crisis since ‘Calciopoli’, and news are coming from Turin on daily basis. And none of them are good. In fact, they are worse and worse every day. For today’s reporting, we point out the debt to Cristiano Ronaldo worth 20 million euros which was promised illegally?!According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed that Juventus has failed to pay money owed to him in unpaid wages. pic.twitter.com/u1CXqbrrjJ— Football España (@footballespana_) December 4, 2022 In one of (too) many mistakes made by the Juve executives, they agreed to secretly pay wages to their players in full amount, even thou they publically said that the wages were reduced. We are talking about the year 2020, when the COVID epidemic started and there was no football for a couple of months. These agreements with players were not communicated to the FIGC or stock market, being kept off their reported balance sheets and if proved, this accusations could turn into a hefty penalty and even jail time. But Ronaldo doesn’t care about that, as his team of lawyers are examining the situation at the Old Lady, since the agreement has been made with the club that he will be paid his 20 million even if he leaves Turin, which he did in 2021.Juve is calling its legend Del Piero to help the club in turmoilLa Repubblica even suggests that this offence could lead to a prison time for some of the executives and it could be up to 12 years, and that it was the main reason for president Andrea Agnelli to resign. In 2020, Juventus announced that their players accepted a pay cut worth four monthly wages and that led to a 5% rise of the share price at the stock market. But basically it was a lie, since they were all promised to get their money back. According to Football Italia, a number of conversations were intercepted, among them former captain Giorgio Chiellini’s message in the WhatsApp group to his teammates. “Hello everyone, as you know we are talking with Fabio Paratici and the president to try to help the club and all the employees in this difficult moment. The final proposal is this: we are missing four months of salary, three months paid in case we manage to finish the season, two and a half months in case we stop. The president has guaranteed the payment of one month’s salary on July 1 and the rest in the 20/21 season. They really thank the whole team for their sensitivity. In case of okay, tomorrow I will have a paper signed by the president where he guarantees the above. Due to stock market legislation, the communication that would come out is only of the waiver of the four months. You are asked NOT TO TALK IN THE INTERVIEWS about the details of this agreement” reads the message.##NAJAVA_MECA_6861908##
