Paulo Dybala was questioned about a Juventus payment and could be disabled

The Italian Finance Guard continues the Investigation into Juventus salary management in the 2020 season and now he has put the magnifying glass on a payment that Paulo Dybala would have received.

According to the Italian newspaper the Republicthe current Roma player was questioned about that amount, which would exceed three million euros, and that is part of a private agreement between the club and the footballer. The newspaper anticipates that the Argentine, is exposed to a sanction that could be a month of disqualification.

The prosecutor’s officials they asked Dybala questions for more than an hour and a halfin order to know if indeed the Vecchia Signora He had paid him that amount and in concept of what he had done.

Initially the researchers given with the name of Dybala for a request for compensation made by the lawyer of Cordoba. It happened when the negotiations to renew the contract of the former Instituto and Palermo striker were cut short. After those fruitless talks, the world champion in Qatar 2022 landed in Rome, in mid-2022.

He was then transported “a proposal for compensation for contractual liability of more than three million euros”. Juventus included it in the new budget as a provision for future risks, according to the Italian newspaper. Apparently, That amount would be equivalent to four months of the footballer’s salary during the 2020 season.and that together with the club they would have agreed to defer that year in which the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the finances of almost all the clubs.

It would be a mechanism similar to the one that Juventus obtained with Cristiano Ronaldo, who operated a “secret letter” to collect part of his 2020 salary a year later. In both cases, they will be private agreements between the footballers and the club, far from the scope of the audits of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Now, the researchers want to know if there are more agreements like these.

The investigation, known as “Operation Prism” already Because Juventus lost 15 points in the current Serie A standings. The club will appear at the first preliminary hearing on March 27 and no one rules out that if new evidence appears, the punishment may increase.