The Juventus tables that reported the "real value" and "exchange value" of the players from the 2016-2017 football season up to the 2020-2021 season, interpreted by the Federal Prosecutor's Office as "real value" and "artificial value", instead represented for the "actual value" that of "cash financial disbursement" , or "how much actually paid in cash".
This is supported by the defensive brief of Juve, presented for the appeal to the FIGC Court last Friday, after which the club announced the appeal to the Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport. In this regard, he reports what was stated by two sports directors in hearings at Consob, Claudio Chiellini and Federico Cherubini. And he adds a specific example, that of Bonucci, for whom the figure zero is found in the "real" column and 35 million in that exchange.
«Evidently - the lawyers write - that the "0" shown in the table with reference to Bonucci cannot correspond to a zero as a "real value"="actual value" of the player, in the instrumental sense understood by the Federal Prosecutor, but that can only refer to the fact - totally devoid of any negative significance - that within the Bonucci/Caldara exchange operation concluded between Juventus and Milan, the value assigned to the outgoing player Bonucci corresponded to 35 million euro (value absolutely correct and in line with the profile of the player in question) ».
And again: «The file – Chiellini had said on 11 January 2022 – was fed directly by the transfer agreements, "transfer agreements", which were sent to us by the Secretariat. As you can see, all the figures are rounded off, but they are used to get a general picture of the trend of the season regarding purchases and transfers. This - he added - was a working file that we had already been using for several years, since the days of Marotta. All these work files were therefore a standard for us in the Sports Area. Purchases-Sales was a report of all the onerous operations that had been concluded, in purchase or sale, by the whole club, from the first team to the youth sector».
The other sports director, Federico Cherubini, spoke on the subject in a previous Consob hearing on 21 December 2021. «The "real" column – he reported – indicates the differential value paid in cash. For example, with regard to Arthur, the value 12 is indicated in the "real" column which, however, is not to be understood as the real value of the player, which was equal to 72 million , but is only the difference in cash compared to Pjanic's value (Euros 60 million)".
(Unioneonline/lopi)
