After three days of indictments, hearings and videocalls, the ball now goes to the National Federal Court of the FIGC. By tomorrow evening, the device is expected on the case of inflated capital gains involving clubs, including five from Serie A (Juve, Naples, Samp, Genoa and Empoli), and managers. The requests of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office were clear: no penalties in the standings (not even for the teams that would have risked by deed of referral), but maximum penalties and inhibitions. From Tuesday afternoon until 6pm today, however, the lawyers of the companies and managers involved took part in the hearings to support their respective defense arguments.
Above all Juve and Napoli, with the Juventus club that from eleven this morning, between managers and lawyers, spoke for about an hour. The focal point of the defense is the questioning of the model adopted by the Federal Prosecutor for the calculation of the value of the cards, also contesting the use of ‘Transfermarkt’. For the lawyer Maurizio Bellacosa – who with Davide Sangiorgio and Nicola Apaje is part of the Juve defense team – the charges are based on parameters, developed by the consultants of the prosecutor’s office, which cannot be applied. Lorenzo Pozza, a Bocconi professor, criticized the method developed by the consultants of the federal prosecutor. Then it was the turn of Fabio Paratici, for whom the prosecutor asked for 16 months and ten days of inhibition. The former Juve director returned to Milan to attend the hearing remotely and defined himself as ‘saddened’ by the protests. Then concluded the current Juventus sporting director, Federico Cherubini, who underlined how in the accusation model the concept of a player’s ‘future’ is lacking in consideration, impossible according to the manager to be calculated because it is subjective. Following the hearing of Genoa and Napoli with the lawyer Mattia Grassani, called to respond to requests for a fine from the club (392 thousand euros) and for the inhibition of Aurelio De Laurentiis (11 months and 5 days) and other members of society. According to the Neapolitan club, the defense revolves around the model used by the Prosecutor’s Office. “After all, if a ‘tariff’ or a ‘price list’ existed, the transfer market would no longer make sense and the role of market operators and the negotiating autonomy of private individuals would be debased” Grassani explained during the hearing. In the specific case of Osimhen, Napoli believes that the expenditure made is adequate given that after almost 50 matches in Italy it is worth even more than the 72 million spent two years ago. Now all that remains is to wait for the device that will arrive tomorrow, then for the clubs dissatisfied with the sentence there will be the possibility of appeal to the Court of Appeal and ultimately to the Coni College of Guarantee.
Source: Ansa
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