Paulo Dybala still has 3.7 million euros in credit from Juventus, it reports La Gazzetta dello Sport. The club from Turin was recently deducted fifteen points in Serie A as a result of financial malpractice and the news will come out on Wednesday that the Argentinian still has to receive a substantial sum of money. The prosecutors who are investigating Juventus’ financial malpractice under the name Prisma have made contact with Dybala’s lawyer, who wants to receive the millions.
The 3.7 million that Dybala still has to receive comes from a deal that was made between March and April 2020. The attacker left for AS Roma on a free transfer last summer and Dybala should have received the amount owed by Juventus in January, but that did not happen. The club itself, when making the deal, suggested not paying Dybala until last January, as he had been told Juventus were feeling the financial fallout from the corona pandemic. Now that Dybala has still not been paid in March, he has put his lawyer to work to get the millions. Juventus recently appealed against the fifteen-point deduction it received. La Gazzetta dello Sport believes that the incident surrounding Dybala will not be conducive to the outcome of that appeal.
Made last week La Republica revealed that Juventus would have undisclosed debts with other clubs in Italy. Before that, it was announced that Juventus had continued to pay player salaries during the corona pandemic, despite the fact that the club then came up with the news that the players temporarily waived their salary. The accounting mess reduced Juventus’ loss on paper. The club benefited directly from this by entering the transfer market, rather than being forced to recapitalise. La Vecchia Signora had to give up fifteen points as a penalty.
A hearing will take place on March 27 and then all the facts must come to light. On this basis, a judge will determine whether Juventus will be punished again. If that is the case, new points deduction or even relegation from Serie A is a possibility. In 2006, the club from Turin was already returned to Serie B, although that was then due to involvement in a major bribery scandal in Italy. From a sporting point of view, things have been going well at the club from Turin lately. The last four league games were won, while FC Nantes was settled in the Europa League. Dybala is a fixed value at Roma under trainer José Mourinho. So far, the world champion has scored twelve goals and seven assists in 24 games.
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