While the new sentence of the Court of Appeal on the capital gains case is expected on Monday after the decision of the Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport which provisionally returned the 15 penalty points to Juventus, another front is opening up for the Juventus club. The federal prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè has in fact referred the Juventus club to the National Federal Court – Disciplinary Section as a «direct and objective responsibility, pursuant to art. art. 6, paragraph 1 and 2, of the Sports Justice Code, for the acts and behaviors put in place by its managers; and in order Andrea Agnelli (at the time, Chairman of the Board of Directors), Pavel Nedved (at the time, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors), Fabio Paratici (at the time, Chief Football Officer), Federico Cherubini (at the time of the events Head of Football Teams & Technical Areas), Giovanni Manna (at the time of the events director of the Under 23), Paolo Morganti (at the time of the events Head of Football Operations), Stefano Braghin (at the time of the facts Director of the Youth Sector), who are accused of violating art. 4, paragraph 1, of the CGS for various acts and behaviors relating to 4 different aspects covered by the investigation: the salary maneuver for the 2019-20 season; the one for the 2020-21 season; the vein agents; partnerships with other clubs”.
List the operations for which the charges against Juventus managers and agents are contested, such as the transfer of Spinazzola to Roma (30 June 2019); the renewal of Giorgio Chiellini and 14 other operations including transfers, extensions and professional contracts. Finally, in relation to partnership relations with other clubs, the same violation of article 4 paragraph 1 of the CGS is contested, in addition to Paratici, also against Cesare Gabasio, «a person who carried out activities within or in the interest of the Juventus company, for 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 companies Sampdoria, Atalanta, Sassuolo, Udinese, Bologna and Cagliari confidential agreements concerning market 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 bearing provisions wholly or partially different from those effectively concluded, thus maintaining a conduct of blatant circumvention of the federal legislation which, for reasons of transparency, requires giving adequate evidence of the agreements concerning the transfer of the rights to the sports performances of the players”.
In this regard, the positions of the clubs and their respective managers who have established such relations with Juventus will be assessed following the outcome of the further investigations underway, currently covered by preliminary investigation secrecy, following the transmission of the documents of the criminal investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Turin to the competent Public Prosecutor’s Offices on 24 February 2023″. But what is Juventus at risk concretely? Among the possible sanctions, they range from a simple admonition to the penalization of one or more points in the standings, passing through the fine and the fine with warning.
