CR7 wants the 20 million of the “secret card” – Corriere.it

For a change, Cristiano Ronaldo aims to win: on the lawn of the «Lusail Stadium», where he will challenge Switzerland with his Portugal on Tuesday evening, in the round of 16 of the World Cup; and, who knows him, in court, where he could find Juve again, in a legal duel. Indeed, last November 4, through a lawyer, CR7 presented a request to the Turin magistrates who are investigating the accounts of the Juventus club to have a copy of the investigation documents, “having an interest in it”. In short, to be able to take a look at the amount of documents acquired and seized by the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza, and at the (intercepted) telephone calls of the Juventus managers, who more than once spoke of him.

As happens to the head of the club’s legal office, Cesare Gabasio, discussing with the sports director Federico Cherubini: «I wouldn’t go to the extreme (…) of filing a lawsuit, because then that paper there that they have to come up with is just help us so much to us (…) in our budget”. There is talk of the now famous «Ronaldo card» and his back pay slips, the exact accounting of which is found by the investigators in the «CR7 folder.xlsx» file. There is an indication of the residual emoluments due to the player for the “2019/2020 salary maneuver” and that of “2020/2021” for “a total of 29,322,499.33 euros”. Out of 19.975 million net. On this point, the deputy prosecutor Marco Gianoglio and the prosecutors Mario Bendoni and Ciro Santoriello note: «It should be emphasized that since the consultation in the financial report as at 30 June 2021, no information has been found on the matter and, moreover, from the listening activity carried out it was received confirmation of the persistence of elements of opaqueness in the situation”.

The situation seems complex, even reading the consideration of the financial director, Stefano Cerrato: «Thanks again that Ronaldo did not make dangerous pizzini». Therefore – again according to the investigators – the Portuguese star would have many arrears of salaries, those that Juve would have thought of conditioning the stay of Ronaldo himself at Manchester United, the club to which the attacker went. Not without contraindications, at least listening to some interceptions, in this regard: «To tie… to the stay there! It is not certifiable today because there is a market in the middle and therefore the auditor cannot say that he will certainly remain there». We always come back to Gabasio’s words: «That famous map that shouldn’t exist in theory, right? (…) so you know if it comes out (…) everything about the financial statements, the auditors and everything jumps at our throats (…) then maybe we have to make a fake transaction». On 8 July, the prosecutors cited CR7 as a person informed about the facts: but he, at least until now, has become foggy.