But “who” controls… “how” controls? The question is addressed to the Football Federation, not to the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office. And perhaps it can also be addressed to the Italian League, in defensive silence with respect to the attack fired by Tebas, boss of the Spanish League. The documents of the criminal proceedings against Agnelli&Co and Juventus are circulating everywhere. There are no secrets. And it leaves you baffled. Trying to summarize simply.
1. False accounting – It is possible to move the payment of salaries, but the so-called “provision” is necessary. Even a first-year economics student knows this. Didn’t they know it at Juve?
2. Ronaldo standings – Is it possible that such an irregularity was written, signed and photographed? Private agreements are prohibited in football. Not from today or from yesterday. For years. And also: is it credible that Ronaldo agreed to leave without that card being paid or torn up, one of the two?
3. Fictitious Billings – The deeds of the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office indicate the companies of the prosecutors who would have lent themselves to games prohibited with the VAT. Is it possible that this evident administrative offense was implemented by (some) prosecutors only with Juventus?
Then there would be the interceptions – and it seems already the admissions – on a debt with Atalanta resulting from… nobody knows! Romero or Demiral, for example: Handshakes and pats on the back, paper like confetti, invisible ink?
In this complicated mosaic, there are no pieces and supporting actors. The testimonies of the prosecutors called into question by the Turin prosecutor’s office and of course the other companies involved in the (real, presumed or real: who knows) market affairs are fundamental. Initial question therefore reiterated to the Football Federation, the League and various bodies: “who” controls … “how does it control?
In the background remains a rather melancholy reflection, which involves the entire Agnelli dynasty a few months after the centenary of Juventus ownership: the president Andrea felt powerful (and omnipotent) thanks to the victories, then with the defeats he was ashamed to tell the Family that the money was not enough. Maybe he’s felt like a superman for too long, to agree to be a good son again. In the history of football, the economy and great dynasties, he isn’t the first and he won’t be the last.
