Isn’t the issue that agreement was really something else than what was announced? I hate that fucker but what he praised was the agreement that saw players forgo a portion of their salary, not the fact that they received it through other channels.
For fuck sake
The notice from the club and agreement with players were clear
No 4 months salary if the season did not resume.. and if it did.. the club in good faith would pay the players 3 months salaries (this good faith is exactly the agreement)..
They will abandon the salaries.. if season resumed.. you will get the amount next season as a bonus or end of service bonus if sold/fired..
I am not even sure that this was not reported in the financial statement.. but from what it seems.. it looks like these agreement were not reported in the covid season financial report..
Juve would not gain anything on sporting level from this.. since FFP and other financial rules were put on hold that season and the one after..
Then there is the potential benefit of (looking better) on stock exchange.. which seems stupid considering that the amount is like 90 millions from 1 billion of the club value, and again that would not provide any sporting benefit
If this whole thing of sporting disloyality is related to buying or paying better to players.. thats an argument that is debatable.
For me.. this is a complete joke, esp. that it is pretty much difficult to link this to sporting benefit or sporting disloyality....
Disloyal to whom exactly?
And Susie at it again
""their agreements to secretly pay their players wages that they’d publicly stated to be waived, and their suspicious partnerships with a number of other Italian clubs.""
The salary payments were not secret.. and it was waived from the covid season report.. but added as bonuses in the next..
I am not an expert on financial auditing rules.. but it looks to me very difficult to say this give Juve a 20points advantage over others.. this is a complete joke