Fabio Paratici Sanctioned For 2.5 Years

[Trent Crimm]

Won't be surprised to hear that Bentancur and Kulu's transfers are looked into either as there was some dodgy valuation accounting going on there. The Romero transfer was always a little odd with the way he was bought buy Juve, shunted to Atlanta with a lower fee than they had bought him for only for him to be loaned to us with obligation.

I think our association with FP is going to damage us. Who is going to want to deal with us while he's still working here? Has to at the very least be suspended until we know the results of the appeal, and if that doesn't over-turn the judgement, he has to go.

everything’s gonna be looked at. Down to his daily expresso expenses.

 

[Snarfalicious]

 

[Cornpattbuck]

I'd say £42m for Romero was easily the going rate, so... ??‍

 

[DanielJohnCosta]

I'd say £42m for Romero was easily the going rate, so... ??‍

I think the issue is we could have done it for less but we didn’t because paratici is a dodgy piece of shit

 

[Trotter]

Based on that has to be immediately suspended by the club, pending further investigation

 

[mabolsa_ritchey]

Can we just fold the club and start again?!

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

I warned you all that this man was a fraud. Get this fucking crook out of the club. Embarrassing.

 

[C0YS]

You can sort of imagine it, in a similar way to how we blatantly shunted some of the Bentancur fee onto Kulusevski's transfer to avoid Juve having to send more money to Boca. So much of football dealing seems to still be about scratching each other's back but the world has moved on now and financially you can't be mucking about like this anymore.

If it's true, he'd absolutely need to go.

What you describe there is perfectly legal, if 'unethical'. We did a similar thing with Lo Celso before paratici.

The issue is inflating numbers to make it look like a profit (that doesn't exist) not creative accounting to avoid paying a third club. The thing is basically every club in Italy and Spain does it, or a large section of them. And you can actually prove it as this sort of accounting takes both clubs to have knowledge of what is happening. And that's without speculating on Napoli valuing 4 random youth players at 20m in a swap deal.

Serie As largest problem is it doesn't have the ability to generate money in the same way other leagues do and in Spain it's because of incredibly strict domestic rules. Some teams have tried to maintain their competitive edge through not exactly legitimate means.


What happened here is Juventus got caught, and they got caught on the basis of evidence found in discovery over another case around rumours of paying players in the black over covid. And in discovery they essentially found paratici's little black book. Which, from what I hear basically contained the actual numbers v the inflated numbers.

Now, I'm not defending anyone here, but this rightfully does not sit that well with a lot of people in Italy. And I'm not just speaking of Juve supporters. We know this is widespread and is normalised in Italy, the only thing that has stopped successful prosecutions has been the impossibility of ascertaining actual player value. So the punishment doesn't exactly seem fair, and annoyingly this is only going to make Juventus fans sense of victimhood even larger, which frankly is nauseating (yeah mate I know Inter were also doing the calciopoli thing and actually won a title out of it. But that doesn't mean you didn't cheat for the ones you did win!).


Anyway, we will see what comes out of this as there will be an appeal process and this will go on. But yeah.

 

[Trent Crimm]

Our new DOF will be Nick Leeson ?

 

[austinfh]

Got to the point where you've just got to laugh, turnaround in the last 6 months at this club is ridiculous beyond belief but that's Spurs for you

 

[number41]

It’s quite amazing how fast things seem to be falling apart.

 

[rossdapep]

So Levy cant even hire a legit DOF with it going tits up

 

[rossdapep]

I wonder if the club will just promote Steinsson, he will know what the project is and what work was needs to be done.

 

[Bobbins]

Can we just fold the club and start again?!

Transfer ownership of the stadium to Hottingham Topspurs FC Ltd tomorrow! Wipe the slate clean! We can go back to playing in chocolate brown and gold.

 

[legion]

I wonder if the club will just promote Steinsson, he will know what the project is and what work was needs to be done.

The ex head of recruitment from Everton? We'd be doomed. ?

 

[cookiemonster]

Maybe they will deduct us 15 points just for laughs

 

[Russ1201]

Won't be surprised to hear that Bentancur and Kulu's transfers are looked into either as there was some dodgy valuation accounting going on there. The Romero transfer was always a little odd with the way he was bought buy Juve, shunted to Atlanta with a lower fee than they had bought him for only for him to be loaned to us with obligation.

I think our association with FP is going to damage us. Who is going to want to deal with us while he's still working here? Has to at the very least be suspended until we know the results of the appeal, and if that doesn't over-turn the judgement, he has to go.

That would be so Spursy.

 

[Russ1201]

Perfect opportunity for Levy to sack Fabio and not be the bad guy.
Then Levy will take over all transfer negotiations and we end up with fuck all.

 

[Dakes]

Okay, so the Chairman who eulogizes Tottenham's attacking DNA hires low block and counter attacking managers (Jose, Nuno, Conte).

This very same Chairman, famed for underpaying on players, hires a DoF who overpays on players?

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a movie.

 

[JacoZA]

Okay, so the Chairman who eulogizes Tottenham's attacking DNA hires low block and counter attacking managers (Jose, Nuno, Conte).

This very same Chairman, famed for underpaying on players hires, hires a DoF who overpays on players?

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a movie.

This season does have a distinct "Weekend at Bernie's" feel to it.