Because Agnelli did not bargain and was sentenced to 16 months in prison for salary maneuvers

If Andrea Agnelli would follow the path of his former mentor, Antonio Giraudo Early to tell: 17 years after the Calciopoli events, for which he was sacked, the former Juventus CEO has in fact turned to the TAR in Rome to ask the European Court of Justice to refer, as a preliminary ruling, to the issue of supposed incompatibility of Italian law (which he admits with the independence of sports procedure in disciplinary matters) with European law. Giraudo wants to ascertain the responsibility of the Italian state for the serious damages and damages it has suffered.

Yesterday, the Federal Court sentenced Agnelli to 16 months in prison
(Prosecutor Giuseppe Chen requested 20) and a fine of 60,000 euros for the case of two salary maneuvers (special agreements signed during the pandemic, on the basis of which the players regained their monthly salaries that were waived), relations with agents and suspicious. Partnerships, or the second mathematical direction born from the papers of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Turin and referred for disloyalty. direction agreed upon by the other coaches and above all by Juventus on May 30 (the club paid a fine of €718,000 euro), by refusing to file any further appeal before the administrative court even with regard to the first part, the so-called capital gains, for which Juventus was penalized with -10 points in the standings and Agnelli was sentenced to two years in prison. . But it was precisely the former Juventus president’s will to preserve the path to the TAR appeal that prompted him to abandon the compromise solution chosen by other executives, and so the second sentence reached the sporting pitch.

On May 30, Agnelli had preferred to withdraw his position In order not to derail the agreement that was appropriate for the club (without a plea bargain, Juventus would likely be punished again), but lawyer Sangiorgio anyway initiated a conversation with federal prosecutor Chen. A dialogue that continued until a few days ago, but did not result in any agreement because Agnelli specifically wanted to reserve the right to appeal to the TAR and, in fact, asked for a hearing yesterday before the Federal Court after that. To tar in the direction of capital gains, on the calendar today. Applications which the Public Prosecutor did not consider admissible, also and above all to maintain the same conditions imposed by other persons. So today Agnelli will be able to apply himself to Tar for capital gains, while he waits for the reasons for this sentence of salary maneuvers to decide whether to apply to Tar for this as well. We’ll see.

But given the times of the Giraudo case, FIFA’s choice to negotiate a settlement — disputed by those who considered Juventus’ fine to be too light a penalty — that allowed those sporting provisions to be protected from other appeals today proves particularly far-sighted.