Juventus, we want to hurry up on capital gains. And the hypothesis of plea bargaining on salary maneuvers – Corriere.it is growing

MILAN
Trying to predict how the Juventus case will end is a reckless exercise: the story is complex, so much so that yesterday the Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi he took the cue to ask for a justice reform, convinced that something needs to be changed for the timing to be respectful of the competition’s reputation (even if it is difficult to identify a different procedural process that would not have effects on the championship, this one or the next). But let’s try to draw a scenario, complete with spoilers possible ending: penalty in points for the case of capital gains such as to exclude Juve from the Champions League, plea bargaining for the second line of maneuvers on salaries and capital gains bis. The second depends on the first.

Read the device, waiting for what the president is writing Gabriella Palmieri Sandulli and the other members of the College in the motivations: in their pages you will find the basis for the next steps. Decisive will not be only the What they will write, but also the when because times are essential to determine penalties.

Let’s go in order. After the condemnation for article 4, i.e. the lack of loyalty, of the top managers of Juventus (Agnelli, Arrivabene, Cherubini and Paratici, who just yesterday resigned from Tottenham) confirmed by the College, it seems very difficult that Juventus can not be convicted of disloyalty. The managers set up a direct responsibility of the club and, if the disloyalty remains, the penalty in points remains. Which will then perhaps be recalculated by the federal Court of Appeal with the criterion of afflictivity.

Now the times: the Board has 30 days to write the reasons, even if rumors speak of two weeks. We want to do everything to conclude the process (including a possible return to the guarantee college) so that the penalty is afflictive on this championship. In theory, for this to happen, there is time until 30 June even if the Italian teams qualified for the Cups must be notified to UEFA by the first days of June. And be careful: as it was for Calciopoli, this is a crucial issue because if a team registers and is then excluded from UEFA, there is a risk that the hole will remain and a foreign club will go to the Cup. Another reason to hurry.

Tight timelines could translate in an incentive for Juventus to ask for a plea deal for the second strand (by April 27 the defenses must send the briefs, then the probable referrals will start, but it is clear that the end would be next year), in order to resolve all the pending issues this season. No one will ever admit it, but talks have already taken place. Difficult? There is no shortage of space to do so, as well as lawyers able to use the instruments of criminal law that are much exploited in the disciplinary field. It can be done by continuously putting all the violations, demonstrating that the offenses fall within the same criminal design: after all, the purpose of all the violations would have been to embellish the balance sheets. Thus, the objection that one cannot bargain in the event of recidivism could also be overcome, given that in the second line the dispute always of the article 4 and all the more so if the settlement intervened before the final judgment of the capital gains case. Everything else depends on the reasons.