but the point was that Serie A didn't restart until july which was when standard season as already over.
As our books and sporting season ends 30/06 where Serie A was off for Covid
I mean it was such a unpredictable thing and to punish us for it?
Inter didn't pay wages for 6months and had to wait for a loan to do so... but didn't get punished but sportive justice
i think (again, i think, just a guess) that the problem is the following
- players gave up on 4 months of wages on paper, which is fine, the league had an agreement with the clubs about this
- players still got paid the next season
- and here's the catch, they got paid through bonuses and other titles which aren't in their regular contract
wages are wages, and wages must be paid as wages. i'm not entirely familiar with the italian tax system, you might have more info on this, but if you pay wages and other benefits to employees, those might be charged with different taxes (payroll, personal income tax) and social contributions, so you're not allowed to pay wages as anything else. it's one of the more serious tax offenses in hungary, and since the european taxation systems are heavily harmonized, i'd say that italy might have similar rules.
also, communicating that
players are nice guys, they agreed to give up on wages worth 4 months, we'll be fine after covid, then still paying benefits worth 3 months of wages is not entirely in line with the transparency rules.
i think that the whole plusvalenza case is a 100% witch hunt and the penalty is a joke, but the salary case maneuver was a risk not worth taking. players should have been forced to give up on those wages like with every other club - or wages should have been accounted as wages. even a consultation with the league would have been useful, at least the club would have a document with a figc stamp and signature on it telling us how to proceed.
