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Scandal in Serie A: the Italian federation pins 62 suspicious transfers – sport

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According to information from La Repubblica, confirmed by Gazzetta dello sport on Wednesday, the Italian Football Federation is investigating suspicious transfers made by Italian clubs. Several transfers are pinned including that of the Nigerian, Osimhen.

The Supervisory Commission of Italian Football Clubs (Covisoc) reportedly sent the FIGC a report on these 62 suspicious transfers, which took place between 2019 and 2021, set up by the clubs in order to easily generate capital gains on accounting years and to comply with the rules of financial fair play, announces the Italian daily La Repubblica, information later confirmed by the Gazzetta dello sport.

Among his transfers, we find that of the Nigerian Osimhen. The Nigerian striker left LOSC in the summer of 2020 for 70 million euros. But at the same time, Lille had recruited four players from Napoli against 20 million euros. A practice that allows you to slip through the cracks of financial fair play, because it is not considered illegal or wrongful.

In addition to the transfer of Victor Oshimen, there is this Arthur and Pjanic exchange between Barça and Juventus which thus allowed Juventus and Barça to each generate a capital gain of 50 million euros. At the time, questions were already erupting about the usefulness of such a transfer for the two clubs. The same pattern was applied during the Danilo-Joao Cancelo exchange between Manchester City and Juventus, in the summer of 2019.

While the FIGC president Gabriele Gravina has been warned by Covisoc, Giuseppe China, the prosecutor of the Italian Federation will take up the case to determine if his transfers are illegal, even if they seem to comply with the rules of fair- financial play.

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