In recent weeks, prosecutors have been publishing some of the wiretaps and interrogations from the long-running investigation into Juve’s financial irregularities.
Investigators have placed the club and its dealings under great scrutiny, especially the operations carried out during Fabio Paratici’s tenure between 2018 and 2021.
The current Tottenham Hotspur manager joined Juventus in 2010 as Giuseppe Marotta’s right-hand man before usurping his former mentor in 2018. That’s when Fabio Paratici’s free reign began.
The former Bianconeri sports director had decided to raise Federico Cherubini, making him his new close collaborator. The latter eventually succeeded Paratici in the role after his departure in 2021.
But according to Cherubini’s cross-examination, he never shared the same vision with Paratici, instead having to play along regardless of his own beliefs.
“When Marotta left three years ago, Paratici told me that ‘you are coming with me because you will do some of the things that Marotta used to do,'” Cherubini said as reported by Gazzetta dello Sport via Calciomercato.
“I told him ‘Fabio, I’m going to come there to do that dirty job because you don’t want to do it yourself, because you don’t want to go to the headquarters, you don’t want to go to the personnel office, you don’t want to talk to the vendor, but I can’t be like Marotta who acted as a filter.
“We had different points of view. For me, sacrificing young players was a sin. For Paratici, achieving the same goal by selling a first-team player meant compromising competitiveness,” explained the current Juventus sports director.
“I give you the example of Moise Kean, who we sold to and then went to buy it back. If the market did not give us opportunities, pulverizing young people with operations was not good.
“The alternative was to sell first-team assets. Several times I complained to Fabio that the value we were giving to those players was not fair.
“In the meetings held with the rest of the management, it was assessed that we had to move towards a different technical project and that the use of capital gains ceased to be a characteristic of our management.”
