Juventus president Gianluca Ferrero confirmed that the membership has appealed the court docket’s determination within the notorious Cristiano Ronaldo case.
The membership is holding its yearly shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, and the assembly started with a phrase from the Bianconeri president. The 60-year-old tackled a number of matters, together with the membership’s authorized battle with Ronaldo.
This challenge dates again to the Covid-19 period when the 2 events signed what was labeled as a “secret settlement”, acknowledging that the membership owes the Portuguese a determine value 19.6 million euros in deferred wages.
The settlement surfaced to gentle in the course of the Prisma investigation, with the prosecutors utilizing it as a transparent proof of wrongdoing on the administration’s half, particularly because it remained hidden and unrecognized on the stability sheet.
Nonetheless, the previous Actual Madrid and Man United star insisted on gathering the promised figures, so he determined to take the matter to court docket.
In the long run, an arbitrary committee dominated that Juventus ought to pay Ronaldo half of the requested sum, roughly equalling 9.8 million euros.
Nonetheless, the Serie A giants stay defiant, so Ferrero revealed that the membership’s authorized crew has filed an attraction in opposition to the ruling.
“We don’t agree with this ruling which established a good division of duty, so we challenged it on the Turin court docket. We don’t agree with the substance of this arbitration,” mentioned the membership president by way of IlBianconero.
Ronaldo signed for the Bianconeri in the summertime of 2018 for a club-record charge. He spent three years in Turin below three totally different managers. And whereas he managed to win the Serie A title on two events, he couldn’t fairly steer the membership in direction of Champions League glory as initially hoped for.
CR7 then jumped on the chance to return to Outdated Trafford in August 2021, and has been plying his commerce with Saudi Professional League facet Al-Nassr since January 2023.