Juventus

[JRockBlues]

Have UEFA insiders managed to link it to us yet?

I'm pretty sure UEFA president Cerferin is having a quiet chuckle to himself somewhere. Not exactly on the best of terms with Agnelli.

 

[Delphinho]

We also did a swap for Pablo Moreno

That looked like a very shady one

 

[dickie davies]

does that affect us in any way?

So long as we recorded it correctly, no
Even if both fees were inflated value!

 

[Victorinodennistua]

Match fixing, bribing refs, drug scandal, now this, what a shit stain of a club

Any prostitution?

 

[NZBlue]

Any prostitution?

would you like some my boy?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I see the cancelo Danilo swap was one of the transfers they have been done for.

Always knew there was something dodgy about that. But I just thought that's the way things were done nowadays. It used to be that you'd buy a player for £Xm plus a player. But for some reason nowadays, they also insist on having a fee for the player going the other way, and inflating the fee of the first player. It was the same when we got £15m for Otamendi and payed £60m for Dias. Why not just pay £45m? I figured there must be some sort of accounting benefit.

 

[blueinsa]

The grand old lady spends her time with her knickers round her ankles these days.

No corruption in football?

It’s fucking rife!

 

[cheekybids]

No wonder they wanted a super league. Only in Italy and I love Italy.

TBF the Italians have dealt with it, our European royalty get a free pass.

 

[theres only one carlito]

Always knew there was something dodgy about that. But I just thought that's the way things were done nowadays. It used to be that you'd buy a player for £Xm plus a player. But for some reason nowadays, they also insist on having a fee for the player going the other way, and inflating the fee of the first player. It was the same when we got £15m for Otamendi and payed £60m for Dias. Why not just pay £45m? I figured there must be some sort of accounting benefit.

I don’t think there’s anything dodgy about the actual transfer per se. From what I can gather from the press reports is that Juventus seem to have reported or audited it incorrectly to fudge their books. How deep we are involved is a mystery at the moment, if at all. However, Juve are appealing it. But then why would all the board resign?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I don’t think there’s anything dodgy about the actual transfer per se. From what I can gather from the press reports is that Juventus seem to have reported or audited it incorrectly to fudge their books. How deep we are involved is a mystery at the moment, if at all. However, Juve are appealing it. But then why would all the board resign?

I don't mean dodgy in the sense of illegal or breaking the rules, but I just find in interesting that swaps used to just be the player plus the fee. Nowadays, there's always a fee for both players. So we paid £27.4m plus Danilo for Cancelo, but officially it went through at £60m-odd, and they supposedly paid over £30m for Danilo. So there must be some accounting reason for that sort of arrangement. It's not just us. Every swap seems to be like this now.