Cristiano Ronaldo won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Juventus – – 2024-04-22 02:59:52

Cristiano Ronaldo won the judicial fight against Juventus for deferred salaries and according to reports from Italy, the 39-year-old forward will receive a multimillion-dollar sum for a reimbursement of the Portuguese’s salary that the Turin club had not fulfilled in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Three years later there was a ruling in favor of the attacker and the Vecchia Signora must face the relevant payment.

Juventus must pay the Lusitanian 10.3 million dollars (9.7 million euros), in addition to an extra such as interest in the delay in complying with the payment. This is in the concept of two months of salaries owed by Cristiano Ronaldo, as reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport.

At the beginning of his claim to the Italian entity, the footballer demanded 20.7 million dollars (19.5 million euros), although later the Arbitration Court of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), made up of Gianroberto Villa, Roberto Sacchi and Leandro Cantamessa, decided to halve the amount because it was proven that there was negligence between the player’s lawyers and those of the Turin club’s leadership.

CR7 arrived at Juventus in 2018, after the World Cup in Russia. But after a year and a half, the conflict arose with the club when the activity was suspended due to the confinement that affected almost everyone. The leaders asked the players not to collect their salaries from March to June 2020, with the promise of paying them later. The players accepted and that salary deferral agreement included, among others, Paulo Dybala and Giorgio Chiellini.

The measure was to be able to alleviate the economic crisis unleashed in the midst of that context. At that time, CR7 and Juventus reached an agreement in which the club deferred the payment of his salary for four months and undertook to pay him the 19.5 million euros that the Portuguese striker later claimed.

That agreement was the ace in the hole that Cristiano had in the event of a possible breach, which later ended up happening. This salary recomposition did not appear in the accounting books of that year at Juventus nor were they paid to Cristiano.

Upset by this debt, the Lusitanian denounced the club in the ordinary courts. The club defended itself by stating that the player had waived the payment, but the Portuguese presented the aforementioned deferral agreement as evidence. The local Prosecutor’s Office investigated and the copy of that document was found by the Italian financial police on March 23, 2022, as reported by Corriere. The raid was at the Juventus offices and has the signature of the then sports director, Fabio Paratici. With these elements and others collected at the end of the investigation, the Italian Justice was able to demonstrate that there was a crime of tax fraud.

In his three seasons at Juventus, Cristiano played 134 games, scored 101 goals and provided 22 assists. In the Italian club he won five national titles: two leagues (2018/2019 – 2019/2020), two Super Cups (2018 and 2020) and the Italian Cup (2021). In mid-2021 he decided to leave and return to Manchester United, where he spent a year and a half in his second step. At the beginning of 2023 he emigrated to Saudi Arabia and joined Al Nassr.