2023-04-17 11:09:38
Juventus registered losses of 239 million euros this Monday in a 2022 marked by being the first year since 2011 in which they did not lift any title and by the problems in the investigations on the club’s board of directors that resulted in 15 points of sanction in Serie A.
This was confirmed by John Elkann, cousin of the former president Andrea Agnelli and the executive director of Exor, the holding company that controls Juventus, in the letter addressed to the shareholders of the Dutch commercial company.
“To a greater extent than many of our companies, in 2022 Juventus had to face increasing internal and external difficulties, which put the club to the test,” he explained.
“Juventus recorded significant losses of 239 million in the year and, for the first time since 2011, the men’s team did not win a title,” he revealed.
However, Elkann focused on the investigations that the Turin Prosecutor’s Office is carrying out under the name of the ‘Rush Investigation’ for the creation of fictitious capital gains in market operations and salary maneuvers with certain first-team players during the pandemic that did not They were included in the balance sheet for the year 2020.
“It was the legal actions once morest the club that ended up occupying the board of directors, which met 18 times throughout the year. The level of pressure grew so high that the board of directors decided to resign so that the club might protect itself in the most effective way once morest accusations ranging from alleged accounting irregularities to inaccurate communications to the financial markets, mainly related to the purchase and sale of players and agreements on the footballers’ salaries,” he said.
This is also a key week since next Wednesday, April 19, the Sports Guarantee College of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) will definitively decide whether or not to revoke the fifteen-point penalty imposed on the club at the end of January. Elkann was emphatic with his position in this regard: “Juventus denies any irregularity,” he declared.
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