2024-04-18 08:02:00
Italian football club Juventus will have to pay former Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo 9.7 million euros ($10.4 million) in back wages for the 2020-2021 season, it has been announced. Wednesday the Italian court.
The arbitration tribunal to which Ronaldo filed the complaint said in its decision: “The court obliges Juventus Turin to pay an amount of 9.7 million euros”, in addition to interest and legal costs.
The amount is equivalent to the difference between the actual salary Ronaldo received and the one he was supposed to receive after taxes and other deductions were taken out.
Ronaldo, who played for Juventus for three seasons (2018-2021) before returning to Manchester United in England (2021-2022) and from there to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, demanded 19.5 million euros, but the court reduced the amount by 50. percent.
Juventus declined to comment after being contacted by Agence France-Presse, but said it would issue a statement “soon”.
According to the American economic magazine Forbes, Ronaldo, five-time Ballon d’Or, was the highest paid athlete in the world in 2023, with 136 million dollars, including 46 million in salaries.
Last October, Juventus, the most successful in Italy, announced losses amounting to 123.7 million euros for the 2022-2023 financial year, which extended until the end of June.
No action was taken in the calculations of Juventus, who currently occupy third place in the championship and are trying to save their season from the door of the Italian Cup, where they will face seventh-placed Lazio in the semi-finals on April 23, to pay these late salaries.
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