Opinion: The reasons behind Juventus’s punishment when there are no ‘plusvalenza’ regulations
After waiting for ten long days, the Italian Football Federation, FIGC, released their reasoning for why they have deducted 15 points from Juventus in the current league standings.
Not a single place does the FIGC refer to a transaction, document or anything else that can be considered as "real proof" of their decision. So we are dealing with a bit of a soap opera and Juventus will surely appeal this decision made by FIGC.
It will be interesting to follow the development of this story, but actually there has already been a similar case investigating the use of plusvalenza.
In the early 2000s many Italian clubs resorted to the use of plusvalenza and among them was Milan and Inter. But also clubs such as Roma, Lazio, Cheivo, Cesena, Parma and Perugia took advantage of this quick fix...