“We will defend ourselves in court. We have to be ready for everything,” said new Juventus director Maurizio Scanavino, who said the deduction decision was unfair.
The management of Juventus has been accused of taking illegal commissions from the transfers of footballers between 2018 and 2020 and showing false profits to investors. The club faced the same accusation last year, when it was acquitted. He denied wrongdoing even now, but in November the entire board of directors, including the long-time chairman Andrea Agnelli and the former captain of the Czech national team and vice president of the Old Lady Nedvěd, was terminated.
Nedvěd was banned from football for eight months last week. Agnelli and former chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene received two-year bans from the sports tribunal. Former Juventus sports director Fabio Paratici received the highest sentence for falsifying transfer accounting, who is banned from football for two and a half years.
Juventus, which fell from third to 11th after the readout, ended up receiving harsher punishments from the tribunal than union officials wanted. They demanded the deduction of nine points, for the long-time support of the club Nedvěda distanc for one year, for Agnelli for sixteen months and for Paratici for twenty.
