Why can't we afford to go to TAR? for the sake of footballing integrity? please
We've officially set a precedence for any future scandals, believe me this wont be the last we will see/hear in our life time.
What integrity? Have I said something like this? Can you read?
When I say the club couldn't afford it - it's all about the damage control. One year of no cups is better than 2-3 seasons of fucked up points deductions and constant threats from everywhere. It doesn't benefit the stakeholders, the players, the managers and the fans because nobody likes to pay for mistakes of people who were there before.
Try explaining to Chiesa, Bremer and Vlahovic they need to play another season or two like the one we're just having. The next day they all hand a transfer request and the queue only gets longer in the next few days. Same goes for managers and coaches, everybody would want to leave such a shithole as soon as possible.
Both ways the image damage is done but here you at least have a clean start from now on. Everything gets blamed on the old management and that makes everybody else live in peace.
Bottom line is that we know that plusvalenza shit is made out of thin air but seems like the salary case was more serious, everyone was afraid of that one and let's not pretend that wasn't the case. So they decided to close it for good.
More scandals coming in? As soon us you give them something, they'll for sure milk it. That's why it's important to have competent people in charge and we can probably all agree that wasn't the case in the last couple of years at JJ. AA fired the ones who would oppose him and he kept his lapdogs around so that everything went his way in terms of decision making. It was a disaster waiting to happen and it eventually ended up being exactly that.