If you thought it had been quiet, you were right. The calm before the storm is what that’s known as in certain parts of Rome. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has been busy working its way through very many financial irregularities and our Director of Football, Fabio Paratici has been named as a key figure. There is a lengthy list of those the Italian Feds want to sanction, which, I’ll include verbatim at the foot of this piece.
The charges relate to fictitious capital gains activity involving 11 Italian teams and 61 executives. Perhaps it would have made for lighter work, to draw up a list of those clubs and executives that weren’t involved.
Of course, the key issue for us will be if any backlash will be felt by Tottenham, in the Premier League. It seems ambitious, but given the high profile of Fabio amongst those being reproached, it would surely make a mockery if he avoided the penalty?
The clubs involved Juventus, Naples, Empoli, Genoa, Sampdoria, Parma, Pisa, Pescara, Pro Vercelli, Chievo Verona and Novara.
The individuals named Fabio Paratici, Pavel Nedved, Enrico Vellano, Paolo Garimberti, Assia Grazioli Venier, Maurizio Arrivabene, Caitlin Mary Hughes, Daniela Marilungo, Francesco Roncaglio; Aurelio De Laurentiis, president of Napoli; Andrea Chiavelli; Jacqueline Marie Baudit, Edoardo De Laurentiis and Valentina De Laurentiis; Enrico Preziosi and Giovanni Blondet; Alessandro Zarbano; Diodato Abagnara. Giovanni Corrado; Raffaella Viscardi; Julie Michelle Harper, Alexander Knaster, Marco Lippi; Mirco Pletti, Giovanni Polvani, Stuart Grant Thompson, Stephen Gaucci. Luca Carra; Pietro Pizzarotti; Giacomo Malmesi; Paolo Piva; Marco Tarantino. Massimo Ferrero; Massimo Ienca; Antonio Romei; Paolo Repetto, Gianluca Tognozzi, Giovanni winterizzi, Paolo Fiorentino; Giuseppe Profiti, Enrico Castanini, Gianluca Vidal, Adolfo Praga.
