“Ronaldo has signed.” Here is the chat that tests the secret card – Corriere.it

At 13.42 on 23 April 2021, Paolo Morganti, organizational secretary of Juve, writes the second salary maneuver on the chat: Cristiano has signed. And a minute later, she adds: he has a copy of all the documents. Answer from sports director Federico Cherubini: Good!. For the prosecutor’s office, one of the elements of evidence leading to Ronaldo’s famous card, with which the Portuguese star gave up 19,548,333.33 euros, for the 2020-21 vintage. The chat contained in the latest annotation filed by the financial police, as part of the supplementary investigations into the club’s accounts. For an investigation that will see the start of the preliminary hearing on Monday.

Thus the reconstruction of those moments emerges agreements with 17 players: waiver of monthly salaries with a first contract, for savings in the balance sheet of around 60 million euro; then integration agreements, filed after 30 June, i.e. in the following financial year. Integration agreements deposited in the League for only 9 players – for 18,562,416.73 euros – and without the provision of salary refunds, also as an incentive to leave. The indictment hypothesis of the assistant prosecutor Marco Gianoglio and the prosecutor Mario Bendoni, who, however, side-letters were signed, seized in law firms, to guarantee an unconditional payment of the 4 months’ salary. For this reason, in addition to Cherubini and Morganti, he was in the chat Cesare Gabasio, head of the club’s legal department. The same one who, on April 20, 2021, writes: The first ready to sign Cristiano. Three days later, the confirmation, in Morganti’s messages. But everything will get complicated at the end of August, with CR7’s move to United and, even more, with his farewell to England, as the planned bonuses on back salaries will skip, according to prosecutors. Convinced that number 7 has a copy of the document, as per an internal email dated 11 September 2021, sent by Morganti: Possibly the sum indicated in the incentive must be that of the writing in the player’s hand.