Juventus defended itself on Thursday from accusations about possible fictitious capital gains, which are being investigated by senior club officials, questioning the model by which the Italian Football Federation Prosecutor’s Office (FIGC) set a fair price for players using the Transfermarkt web portal.
The FIGC Prosecutor’s Office accused several teams, from Serie A, B and C, last Tuesday of increasing the market value of players in order to generate more revenue by transferring them and, according to Gazzetta dello Sport, the body itself uses the German portal Transfermarkt to adjust the fair price of players and use it as a metric to calculate alleged capital gains.
An approach that, on this second day of the judicial process in Rome, and according to the same publication, Juventus questioned the attack on the Prosecutor’s Office using the statements of the man in charge of the Transfermarkt in Germany, Martin Freudl.
“I spend part of my free time at home on my computer and then the football industry takes these assessments seriously of me. It’s not true, I’m a social worker, I do these things for Transfermarkt for fun, while the football industry moves millions. The difference is insane, “Freudl said in an interview with Dutch outlet Follow The Money.
This is the second day of the judicial process on the ‘capital gains’ of the players in which they are involved, in addition to Juventus, eleven teams and more than 60 managers. Among them, Naples, Sampdoria and Genoa, who also attended Federal Court this morning.
The Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday requested the suspension of their duties for several Juventus managers, including Pavel Nedved (eight months), Maurizio Arrivabene (eight months), Federico Cherubini (six months and 20 days) and former director of sports Fabio Paratici (16 months and ten days). In addition, he claimed a fine of 800,000 euros for the black and white club.
The Prosecutor’s Office also requested disqualification for Napoli’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, for 11 months and five days, as well as a financial fine of 329,000 euros.
Teams like Empoli, from Serie A; Parma and Pisa, from Series B; o Pro Vercelli and Pescara, from Series C, will complete the list of those involved because, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, they allegedly generated fabricated capital gains.
Source: La Verdad
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