Juve in relegation zone! Turin club could be fined with a 20 points deduction

Heavy turnaround is being prepared in Turin: recession, no capital gains until 2025 (at least), significantly lower investments and (probably) years without trophies. The new/old board of executives know what is coming and they are making preparations for the ‘tough days’, but even they didn’t expect news like this from the FIGC prosecutors.

Deducting points is only the tip of the iceberg: Doubtful transfers, "black books"... Juventus are threatened with expulsion from Europe!

In the middle of January, the ‘Old Lady’ was officially left without 15 points, but it looks like that was just the beginning, only the first part of the punishment that awaits Juve. And while the army of lawyers of John Elkann, the legitimate heir to the Agnelli empire, is working on an appeal, even thou the chances of the original decision being overturned are almost non-existent, the ruthless prosecutor of the Italian Football Association - Giuseppe Cina, is extensively preparing new evidence against the Italian giant.

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This is the separate case to the previous one, and as Corriere Dello Sport writes, the outcome could be another loss of points, this time 20! This would put Juve at the last place in Serie A with just 3 points, currently 15 points away from safety. Even a team as strong as the Turin one would have trouble avoiding relegation…It was already known that the 'Prism' investigation, which concerns controversial salary payments to players during the coronavirus pandemic, would cause the greatest damage, because it is easy to check those information. While the capital gains issue is rather more difficult to prove – as there is no independent way of verifying the value of a player on the transfer market – the wages provided more of a paper trail.

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In essence, Juve have released official statements in which the players have agreed to a pay decrease for a period of four months to help the club function during the pandemic. But then, by analyzing Whatsapp messages of Matthijs de Ligt and Mattia De Sciglio, among others, it was proven that the previous statements had absolutely nothing to do with the truth, that is, that the club leaders were informed of the whole story. A new verdict is expected during the month of March.

Juventus hit with a 15-point deduction!

Let's also recall how the entire process against Juventus started at the end of last year: The aforementioned prosecutor of the Italian Football Association - Giuseppe China, asked the federal appeals court to reopen the closed case, after the investigation led to new evidence. The mentioned malpractices came to the surface, and as an epilogue, the club leaders were also punished. The former sports director of Juve and the current first operative of Tottenham Fabio Paratici, was punished with a ban of two and a half years from performing functions in football. Andrea Agnelli and Maurizio Arrivabene were sanctioned with two years each, Federico Cherubini with one year and four months, while Pavel Nedved with eight months of sanctions. It should be remembered that the last time Juventus played in the second league was when it was one of the participants of Calciopoli, the famous match-fixing scandal in Italy in 2006. Then he quickly returned to the elite, after only one season.