Giuseppe Pecoraro, former FIGC chief prosecutor, had his say on the capital gains case on Radio Punto Nuovo, during the Punto Nuovo Sport Show: “The lack of rules regarding the relationship between club and agents and the club-players relationship is obvious that in lack of rules it is very difficult to go and discover capital gains, if you do not have the means. It is important to discover them because they reflect on the balance sheets of the teams, on the participation in the championships, on the possibility of buying and selling, etc. The capital gains discourse is very important, it must find its place in the wider discipline that belongs to the Federation. No one wants discipline. The football system must be changed, times have changed. Today we no longer have football teams, but football clubs. A very different thing is the entrepreneur who has the shares of the team. The problem therefore is not to lose resources, so it is necessary that the budgets remain in such a way as to continue the sporting activity. The problem is therefore upstream, a reform must be made. The match has become a spectacle, all of which needs a radical change. Presidents no longer put money out of their own pockets, they have to bring home a budget parity. As long as Barcelona and Real Madrid were able to spend they did not want the Superlega, but when those resources were no longer sufficient, there was talk of Superlega. Those on capital gains are proposed no sentences. It is unlikely that the court will be able to accept them. It is easier to find the possibility of sanctioning Juventus because there are facts ascertained by the Turin prosecutor and which can be used as evidence by the federal prosecutor. If, on the other hand, there is no such evidence, I think it is difficult to reach a sentence of conviction. A good example was given by Milan with Donnarumma and Juventus with Dybala, the same thing is doing and I hope De Laurentiis will continue to do so in Naples, without compromising the team’s value. Milan have taken on a great goalkeeper like Maignan saving many millions on Donnarumma. This is because there are prosecutors. The fault is not only them but also of the companies that accept. We should create a tariff that allows companies to breathe “.
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