August 29 – Former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, who once ran Europe’s most influential grouping of elite clubs, has had one of his bans from the game reduced from 16 to 10 months after appealing to the Italian FA.
Last month Agnelli received a second lengthy ban in less than a year, this time for the way he handled player salary cuts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Agnelli, one of the principle architects of the doomed European Super League project and a former boss of the prestigious European Clubs Association, had already been banned for two years following an investigation into the club’s transfer dealings.
At the start of the pandemic, Juventus said 23 players agreed to reduce their salary for four months to help the club through the crisis. But prosecutors claimed the players gave up only one month’s salary.
No reason was provided for the reduction which also saw a fine cut from €60,000 to €40,000.
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