According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Cristiano Ronaldo has chosen to proceed with legal action against Juventus for unpaid dues.
The article on page 20 underlines how the Portuguese player, who spent three years in Turin, is requesting reimbursement for the €19.9 million that the team offered him in exchange for agreeing to forgo payment while the COVID pandemic was in its early stages.
During the COVID era, Juventus had used two different financing strategies. The first strategy involved deferring all of the players’ salaries and the second method involved the club promising a later payment while secretly speaking with a select group of players to do the same.
Private paperwork indicating that were also signed between the two parties, although Juventus have not yet paid Ronaldo’s deferred salary.
The now-famous “salary manoeuvres” by Juventus, the subject of the ongoing Prisma legal dispute, include these postponed wages.
Ronaldo has chosen to sue Juventus after requesting the appropriate paperwork from the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office, giving the Old Lady yet additional pain.
Following his arbitrary exclusion from Massimiliano Allegri’s team, former captaing Leonardo Bonucci also filed a lawsuit against the club, seeking damages.
On the other hand, Paulo Dybala and Juventus have come to a deal regarding the roughly €3 million he was owed. After their original verbal agreement, he filed a lawsuit seeking damages for the refusal to extend his contract, but he has now dropped it.
Despite having finished seventh on the Serie A table last season, Juventus will not play in Europe this season after being banned over breaches of UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play rules.
