For Juve it's going to be rock solid!

English tricks, the old lady is punished

For Juve it’s going to be rock solid!

Juventus have been deducted 15 points in the current season of Serie A for accounting fraud. But that’s not all. The record champion faces further penalties.

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Juventus are going through tough times.

Carlo Emanuele FrezzaReporter football

At Juventus, things are bubbling up. After the heavy 15-point deduction, further trouble threatens. On the one hand, criminal proceedings are still pending. The first hearing is scheduled for the end of March. In the worst case, Uefa threatens exclusion from all European competitions.

On the other hand, Juve is being investigated because of possible incorrect information in the balance sheet about salaries not paid out during the corona crisis. At that time, the players waived part of their wages. Those unpaid salaries were officially booked – but in a later step they are said to have been secretly paid back to the professionals.

Especially on the island they cheat

The Juve fans are unimpressed by all of this. They consistently defend the ex-management around Andrea Agnelli and Pavel Nedved and cannot understand why their club is the only one punished. In fact, such trickery with player ratings in international football has long been the order of the day. In the meantime, however, they are taking on more and more abstruse forms.

The Premier League clubs are currently digging deep into their bag of tricks to comply with the rules of financial fair play. While transfer income is always booked in full in the current financial year, expenses can be spread over the duration of the contract period. That’s why they give the new players long-term contracts if possible. Anyone who buys Mykhaylo Mudryk for 100 million euros and retains it for 8 years, like Chelsea, has 12.5 million euros on the expenditure side for 8 years – while the releasing club immediately makes a plus of 100 million euros.

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