The journalist Umberto Chiariello also spoke about Juventus in his usual editorial during Campania Sport, on Canale 21. Here are his words taken from Tuttonapoli.net: “I apologize in advance because the Christmas mood is approaching, Napoli is back in field and we are all with the desire to see him play again, we have seen that he has resumed his peaceful path with Raspadori in great shape, but unfortunately we have to face some issues that stink. It was said: ‘pecunia non olet’, money has no smell, but in reality it is not like that. Here there is a lot of money that has circulated in a fake way, from all sides.
Let’s start from the first trend, what we can define as the Juve earthquake. I’m not interested in entering into the criminal discourse, if the Juventus leaders and their lawyers will see it. There are hypotheses of very serious crimes identified by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, such as insider trading which can lead to up to 12 years in prison. I’m interested in discussing the purely sporting discourse, there are those who say it will all be a bubble of flavour, those who say there will be at most a few qualifying points, those who speak of relegation and even the revocation of championships. There are no match-fixing or attempts at bribery, but there is something much more serious at stake: there is or is not an alteration of the starting principles of the competition. This touches on the cardinal principle of the sporting system: the principle of sporting loyalty. And then the capital gains: mainstreaming has already started in Italy, the dominant thought of ‘whoso fans everyone’ and therefore no one is guilty. ‘It has already been decided that the capital gains cannot be judged’, meanwhile a Juve galaxy emerged in which some clubs, such as Naples and Rome, were not involved while others were absolutely connected to the Juventus system. Here we are not talking about a single capital gain, increased artificially or falsely. I don’t know if they are demonstrable crimes, but I do know the inverse principle of Juve’s work: ‘How much of the budget hole do we have to cover? We put in place all the operations to cover it.’ Here everything changes, it’s not a question of a slightly daring little operation but of a system that involves other clubs. The question I ask is: is this irrelevant for the purpose of sport or do they have a profound impact on the results? Here we will have to understand if so much dust has been swept under the carpet that certain signings are not allowed, such as that of Ronaldo, de Ligt, Vlahovic, and for the signings of Arthur and Rabiot. They say that Juventus is so strong that it could have done even up to 900 million in capital increase? Agnelli, however, didn’t really want to go to his family to say that the hole was much bigger and they had done a stupid thing to buy Cristiano Ronaldo. Everyone knew that Paratici had pushed on the accelerator, so the question is: if Juve altered the field because they carried out operations they couldn’t do, is it right to leave them unpunished? Has the game of football been altered through this shameful administrative doping?
Just as it is never possible for Trentalange to say: ‘I’m not resigning! I want to be questioned.’ Well no! You are the head of the referees, you were in a very close relationship with that gentleman who was under house arrest for 45kg of marijuana and who was then indicted for drug trafficking, even if you didn’t know, you had an obligation to inform yourself and get to know. Apart from the fact that no one believes that D’Onofrio didn’t know anyone, that the bitter thing is that this gentleman is the one who investigated the arbitrators who made the false refunds. Did you know that they found that he was the one who made the fake refunds?
And we close with the bomb of these days. Even in the context of the European Parliament some corrupt people from Qatar have been found, including Italians, in order not to attack the World Cup in Qatar. It wasn’t enough that in 2015 22 out of 24 members of the Fifa executive committee were arrested, the 23rd and 24th had to resign, Blatter in the lead. Today we discover that they have also given funds to European parliamentarians and there was the agreement with Sarkozy made in the presence of Platini, which gave rise to the entry of the PSG and French television rights. A river of money on France. This World Cup stinks like hell! So I hope he dies with the final least desired by the sheik, Croatia-Morocco, with Africa for the first time in the final. I feel I can say that all those who have a civic sense are Moroccans tonight”.
