The FIGC confirmed its prosecutor has asked to revoke the verdict clearing Juventus and others of artificially inflating transfer fees for capital gains, but while Napoli can rest easy, Tottenham’s Fabio Paratici is in danger.
The Italian Football Federation has announced the appeal following the inspection of new evidence provided by the public prosecutor in Turin as part of the so-called Prisma investigation.
This includes confiscated documents and wiretapped telephone conversations.
The clubs – Juventus, Napoli, Chievo, Sampdoria, Pro Vercelli, Genoa, Parma, Pisa, Empoli, Novara, Pescara – were all cleared in April and that was confirmed in May on appeal.
That was because the magistrate ruled it was impossible to judge precisely how much a player is worth on the transfer market, other than what two clubs agree it to be.
It therefore could not be proved that anyone was artificially inflating the value.
That could now change because of the evidence showing Juventus directors discussing the capital gains – plusvalenze – in private conversations, acknowledging they knew full well the values were inflated.
This is why Tottenham Hotspur could also be in trouble, because many of those conversations pin-pointed former Juventus director Paratici in using this tactic often and recklessly.
However, Napoli and Chievo are safe because the FIGC is no appealing against the verdict clearing them of inflated capital gains.
They did not do deals with Juventus, so there is no new evidence to be considered.
It is a huge sigh of relief for Napoli, because the transfer of Victor Osimhen from LOSC in exchange for cash plus three youth players had rung real alarm bells.
Officially, Napoli had handed over Claudio Manzi, Ciro Palmieri and Luigi Liguori at a value of €20m, despite the fact they would never play in the top flight and were essentially dropped for free by LOSC a year later.
This exchange deal allowed LOSC to boost their capital gains and made Napoli look as if they were selling off youth products at a huge profit.
This looks dodgy too because of the outcome of those three youngsters’ actual career[players do flop(maybe not 3 simultaneously within the same transfer etc)yet 1 year later to let them for basically free would be bad bad business] regardless, as this article mentions there is no new information there to showcase wrongdoing on either side.
It’s pure witch hunting. What exactly is in this for them. Italian football is making a mockery of itself. Can they all come together and move Italian football back to where it belong instead of hatred and self destruct. Am really sad.
Should relegate them to serie D, the corruption never ends at Rubentus