'We HAVE to do our duty': Juventus boss Max Allegri vows to stay despite their 15-point deduction

Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri has pledged his future to the club, despite being deducted 15 points in Serie A after an investigation into their accounting practices.

On Friday night, the Italian court announced their punishment for Juventus amid transfer dealings, and it forced the club down to 10th place in Serie A, 12 points behind the Champions League spots.

But Allegri, 55, has said he has no plans to leave Juventus, unless he is forced out of the role as a consequence of the court's ruling.

According to Goal.com, Allegri said: 'I'm the coach of Juventus and I will remain the coach of Juventus. Unless they send me away.

'In difficult times you have to be good, men, in taking responsibility. When things are going well, we are all good. I'm unable to analyse the severity of -15 in the table.

'The only thing certain is that one: we must accept yesterday's ruling. I repeat: the club, with the lawyers, have already made the official statement. We have to be silent, very low profile, and do this challenge starting from 22 points.

'We have to do our duty: the final judgment will come in 2 months. And we must not find ourselves in 2 months with regrets because we did not do as much as we should have done.'

He said the club would use the setback as an 'opportunity' to focus on getting results on the pitch, ahead of a final judgement.

However, he admits that if the points deduction stands, it would take an unusual turn of events for the club to make it back to the top four places in Serie A.

Allegri said: 'When the ruling came, I did the calculation of the points it would take to get the UEFA Champions League. The average is there and to get there you need something extraordinary.'

That campaign to get back into Europe's elite club competition begins when they host fifth-placed Atalanta at the Juventus Stadium on Sunday night.

While Allegri stays in charge for now, former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli has been banned from holding office in Italian football for two years.

Tottenham's managing director Fabio Paratici, former sports director at Juventus, has been handed a 30-month ban from Italian football for his role with the Serie A club, which will be upheld for FIFA and UEFA competitions.