Juventus hammer: 15 points deducted!

Severe penalty against Juventus: The Italian football record champions will have 15 points deducted from the current Serie A season for falsifying their balance sheet. The sports court of the Italian association FIGC decided this on Friday evening. The former series champion is said to have cheated on his balance sheets and thus had more money available for transfers - the sports judges even went further with the punishment than the nine points deduction demanded by chief prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè. Juventus can appeal the ruling to the Italian Olympic Committee Coni.

If the penalty remains, the Turin team will have little chance of finishing in a place in the championship that entitles them to take part in the European Cup competitions. The Italian media unanimously wrote on Friday evening that it was a “hammer judgment”.

Club balance sheet glossed over by more than 100 million euros This case is about fictitious player ratings. The Turin team is accused of having deliberately attributed false market values to some professionals in the past - in 2018, 2019 and 2020 alone, the club's balance sheet is said to have been glossed over by more than 100 million euros. The FIGC sports court had already acquitted Juve and other clubs of these allegations - but the proceedings were reopened due to new findings from the public prosecutor's office. The other clubs have now been acquitted again - unlike Juventus.

In addition to the point deduction, the former club bosses were also punished individually. Former president Andrea Agnelli, for example, was banned from any activity in Italian football for two years and former vice president Pavel Nedved for eight months. Former managing director Fabio Paratici even received a ban for 30 months. The court will request that the bans be extended to European and international competitions. This could particularly affect Paratici, who has been sports director at Tottenham Hotspur in England since 2021. Agnelli and Nedved had already officially resigned this week.

Also tricked with player salaries The accusation of fake player ratings is just one aspect for which Juventus has to answer in court. The former series champion is also accused of falsifying the balance sheets during the corona pandemic by providing false information about unpaid salaries. At that time, the players had officially agreed to forego part of their salaries as a sign of solidarity with the club, which lost a lot of income due to the lockdown and spectator restrictions. Those unpaid salaries were officially recorded - but in a later step they are said to have been secretly paid out to the professionals again. The Turin public prosecutor's office is also investigating the case.

Serie A Italy	SP	TV	P
1. Inter	33	79:18	86
2.Milan	33	64:39	69
3. Juventus	33	47:26	64
4.Bologna	33	48:26	62
5. Roma	32	57:38	55
6. Atalanta	32	59:37	54
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Juventus hammer: 15 points deducted!

The Italian football world was shaken by an earthquake on Friday evening: Juventus will be deducted 15 points in the current season.

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