Not only the football played and the draw in Cagliari, Napoli also has to deal with another situation that is not exactly pleasant. During the day yesterday, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office communicated a 11 Italian clubs the closure of the investigations as regards the case of fictitious capital gains, that is, the inflated ratings of the players to cover the holes in the balance sheet. Among these clubs, there are also Naples and Juventus.
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Today’s edition of The Gazzetta dello Sport took stock of the situation. In addition to Naples and Juventus, the notice from the FIGC also came to Empoli, Sampdoria, Genoa, Pisa, Parma, Pro Vercelli, Pescara and also to Novara and Chievotwo clubs no longer affiliated.
These eleven Italian companies are a referral risk and will have 15 days to prepare the defensive memoirs and decide whether to be heard. At what point will the decision be taken which consists either in a sporting indictment before the Federal Court or dismissal.
62 transactions have ended up in the sights of Covisoc and Consob and of these transactions, 42 are from Juventus. As for Napoli, however, it is over under the eye of the storm the Osimhen operation. In fact, in the maxi operation that brought the Nigerian from Lille to Naples, there were four Azzurri players: this is the third goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis and three Primavera players (Claudio Manzi, Luigi Liguori and Ciro Palmieri).
The overall rating of the four players was just over 20 million euros: a cost considered excessive for players who boasted few appearances among professionals, if not some in Serie C.
The eleven Italian teams risk principalpably a fine with warning, or a limited sanction. But the notice of the investigations also concerns the alleged violation of article 4 of the Sports Justice Code: in that case, it can also reach the penalty of one or more points in the standings.
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