Tottenham have been dragged into the fraud allegations against Juventus, with Italian police investigating the transfer history of summer signing Cristian Romero and the role of the club’s managing director Fabio Paratici.
Sportsmail has been told the £47million deal for the Argentine defender in August — the same day he left Juventus for Atalanta for just £13.5m — is one of 42 transfers being scrutinised by police amid claims of false accounting.
Paratici, who joined Tottenham last summer and was instrumental in the appointments of Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte, is one of six past and present Juventus officials being investigated, including president Andrea Agnelli and legendary former player Pavel Nedved.
The club’s offices in Turin and Milan were raided by police last Friday with player contracts, invoices and financial statements taken as evidence following claims that Juventus falsely recorded the values of transfers between 2019 and 2021 to enable them to comply with Financial Fair Play regulations.
Paratici was directly involved in the deal that brought Romero to Tottenham, continuing a close association with a player he signed for Juventus from Genoa two and a half years ago.
The 23-year-old never played for Juventus in two years at the club, but his transfer valuations attracted attention from the Italian police.
Juventus paid Genoa £22m for Romero in July 2019, but immediately sent him back on loan for the season.
He spent the following campaign at Atalanta, who paid a £3.4m loan fee.
On a bizarre day last August, Atalanta confirmed they had signed Romero permanently for £13.5m before sending him out on loan to Tottenham, who also secured the option to buy him for £47m.
The sums involved raised eyebrows, with Atalanta set to make a profit of £33.5m in a single season.
Other Juventus deals being probed include Manchester City’s £27.4m signing of Joao Cancelo two years ago in a transfer that saw Danilo move the other way in part-exchange, as well as another swap deal that saw Bosnia midfielder Miralem Pjanic join Barcelona with Brazilian midfielder Arthur Melo moving to Juventus.
Tottenham have held talks with Paratici about the matter since reports of the Juventus police raid emerged over the weekend.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by the Premier League club.
pobcelmtu
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Why weren’t the same done to PSG and Man city, f$;king hypocrites.
because in ligue 1 there is no such rule and man city i dont know
hazardeden1017
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If Juve get relegated qe should open negotiations with Chiesa soon. De ligt won't come to Chelsea he may prefer Barca or to stay at Juve
Figosta
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Hold on ? It’s absolutely impossible to accuse Juventus with implicating all the clubs involved in all this so called transfer investigations . Even if Juventus were not charged, the current management all needs to be fired including junky Allgeri
I 100% agree
Azam777
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Why weren’t the same done to PSG and Man city, f$;king hypocrites.
Unitedforlife6
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Juventus and their shady business
Amanda-
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Hold on ? It’s absolutely impossible to accuse Juventus with implicating all the clubs involved in all this so called transfer investigations . Even if Juventus were not charged, the current management all needs to be fired including junky Allgeri
Amanda-
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This is absolutely serious 🧐 Paratici should go to jail. That man 👨 is almost successful at destroying Juventus for good. This may end up badly for Juventus. This management sucks and should have been fired long ago. I kept saying it , fire this incompetent management including useless Allgeri
Red_Devil_United
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Juventus tried to pull a city but failed.
Nebaceimr
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while Juventus fears of relegation, and Tottenham Hotspur should follow too... 🥺
U shld be relegated to the hospital bed, your brain needs a transplant.
SonicSynchro
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while Juventus fears of relegation, and Tottenham Hotspur should follow too... 🥺