Italian side AS Roma will have to pay a penalty to UEFA, after failing to hit their target of making just over €28m in capital gains by June 30.
This is according to calciomercato.com who highlighted how the Giallorossi were around €3m short of their target. They will now have to pay a penalty fine to UEFA ( just under €5m) for falling that short.
Roma would have got a serious punishment like European squad list reduction or exclusion from competition, but due to how close they were to the target, they managed to avoid a more serious punishments.
Juventus got a serious punishment last season after they failed to hit their capital gain target. They were deducted 10 points from their already accumulated points, and this consequently led them to missing out the UEFA Champions League qualification.
The capital gain is the gain that a club obtains from the sale of a player, subtracting the depreciation of the price tag that was still in the balance sheet.
Roma made around €26m in net capital gains in the financial year ending June 30 – Benjamin Tahirovic (€5.5m in surplus), Justin Kluivert (€7.5m), Cristian Volpato (€7.5m), Filippo Missori (€2.5m), Ruben Providence (€300,000) and Carles Perez (around €2m), as well as add-ons linked to Nicolo Zaniolo.
Offers for Roger Ibanez and Nicola Zalewski had arrived recently, but the club decided to pay the fine rather than rushing through a deal, giving them more flexibility for this summer.
Roma finished sixth on the Seria A log last season, and will play in the UEFA Europa League next season – a competition they played last season to the final, only to lose to Sevilla via spotkicks.
