Marco Bardesono
It doesn’t seem to end there. The judicial and sporting scandal that hit the Juve could hold surprises. Unusual fact, at least at this point of the judicial process, is the long meeting-river in the prosecutor’s office between the magistrates who follow the case. Little or nothing was leaked about the agenda. The meeting took place too early compared to when the preliminary hearing will be set, it is assumed in the month of April. Evidently the investigators want to explore some of the themes already highlighted in the judicial papers.
First of all, sources close to the prosecution explain, “the work would have been organized for sending the probative material to other Italian prosecutors”, Genoa, Parma, Udine, Empoli and Bergamo, where the local clubs may have been involved, in the phase purchase, sale and loan of players, in the “capital gains game” objected to the leaders of the Old Lady. And speaking of Atalanta’s Bergamo players, among the papers of the investigation a private agreement emerged, signed by Luca Percassi, CEO of the black and blue club, with which he undertakes, «in exchange for Kulusevski’s transfer to Juventus, to buy definitive title a Juventus player, suggested by the same, for a value of 3 million». Always confidential sources underline that the indictment has also been requested for Juventus as a company and, at this point, it would be necessary to clarify whether the responsibility for the alleged crimes committed can fall on the part not only of the directors, but also of the property, in this case to the majority shareholder Exor which holds 65% and whose director he is John Elkann.
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The magistrates seem to be reading and re-reading the only wiretap in which Elkann’s voice appears talking on the phone with his cousin Andrea Lambs (46 years old today). The content of the conversation has already been known for days, but today we wonder if that phone call has hidden meanings. The certain thing is that, already in 2021, the president of Stellantis was aware of the inflated capital gains regarding some players.
He talked about it with his cousin and warned him to make things change. So far the line that has been passed is that the reference shareholder has acted in the most complete legality, even though he was aware of the “crime”. It is worth rereading the conversation between the two cousins that took place on 6 September 2021. «The theme – says Agnelli -, and here we return, I mean, to the genesis, to the history of the situation: we have always taken risks and the advice is I have always been informed that they have been taken and corrective measures have always been found along the way».
Elkann replies: «Yes, but as you remember, you said that in the end there was, from the sports management… they expanded. There are a whole series of operations that they have done ». And Agnelli specifies: «Exactly, making excessive use of the instrument of capital gains. This is a fact”. Then on Max Allegri, Elkann adds that he should be careful «not to say that the policies that have been made in recent years were senseless, a lot of money has been spent on players who don’t know… And then what were the prerogatives of the market, they were the prerogatives of the markets at that time. Now we need to manage things in the best possible way… so much at the end of what the others have done before, who cares». Agnelli, at that point, replies: «Yes, yes I agree, I agree perfectly». Obviously Elkann is not being investigated, on the other hand even if he “couldn’t have not known”, in reality he could have done very little.
