Sardar Azmoun @ Zenit St. Petersburg 2021/22

[Keshwardoost]

They must be in a terrible condition financially to be at 1.5 million. I don’t see how zenit wouldn’t take that as a low ball offer. Sardar would need to hope Zenit does a deal out of charity at this point. They’d be leaving money on the table, which I don’t see Zenit doing. Stranger things have happened, but Sardar deserves more than that. He’s in his last 6 months, but if
Sardar were French, Spanish, Dutch, etc. he wouldn’t command such a low ball offer. With his quality, teams should be lining up to compete for his signature.

yeah at this point if that is true, iff probably made a better offer to skocic than juve is making to zenit..
just waiting for juve to throw in a Fiat 2015 model aswell in the deal..

but iv read all betwen juve offering 1+2 mil, to 3+1 and 3+2.. and i bet its all just talks as nobody knows whats in the real talks. just as iv read zenit wants 4 mil, 5 mil and 10 mil..
i dont think anyone knows but thats just journalists milking the news as they can change that later on if its wrong when official, or just leave the news if the move never happens..
as long as they are having meetings, its hot. apparently they had several meetings so something is going on for sure.

[ParthianDE]

My prediction:

Sardar Azmoun will stay at Zenit until his contract expires, allowing Zenit to find a suitable replacement.

Until then he will help the club win another championship in the RPL and showcase his skills in the UEFA Europa League.

Then he will leave Zenit, Russia's #1 club, where he had made it as a star, on great terms.

Zenit, Russia's best club, will be pleased to see Sardar Azmoun end up at a top European club as a free agent.

[Keshwardoost]

if you are right, i dont think it will be juve then. probably an eaven better team. also read about a new razzia against juve few months ago, dont know what the outcome was though..


Calciopoli was the darkest moment in Italian football history, but the new police raid on Juventus over false accounting claims - and a potential RELEGATION - are bringing back bad memories of the match-fixing scandal
Juventus 'could be RELEGATED to Serie B and STRIPPED of their last Serie A title' in an investigation for false accounting on transfer fees
EXCLUSIVE: Tottenham's £47m deal for Cristian Romero is among 42 transfers investigated by Italian authorities amid probe into Juventus' financial dealings
This investigation sparks memories of the infamous 2006 Calciopoli scandal
Then-Juventus chief Luciano Moggi was accused of directly influencing matches
Wire-taps by investigators found a 'system', and had Juventus demoted
AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina were implicated but Juve had two titles stripped
By NATHAN SALT FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 20:00 GMT, 30 November 2021 | UPDATED: 20:00 GMT, 30 November 2021

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When news broke over the weekend that Juventus' offices in Turin and Milan had been raided by police, minds were cast back 15 years to the Calciopoli scandal which ripped apart Italian football and decimated Juve for years to come.

This latest probe is focused on the club's transfer dealings, profits from deals and agents fees finalised between 2019 and 2021.

The Italian football giants have been accused of false accounting and the president of the Italian association for the protection of consumer rights (CODACONS) believes Juventus could be demoted to the second division and have Serie A titles stripped if it is deemed they gained an unfair advantage over rivals.



'The accusatory system is very serious and throws a sinister light on the last football championships, also because there has been a real Juventus dominance in recent years, which ended in the past year,' Marco Donzelli said, quoted by TMW.

'If Juventus were to have illegitimately gained an advantage over rival clubs with operations of this type, then the regularity of the last football championships would fail and, as a consequence, the Federation and the Authority for market competition will have to intervene and sanction those responsible.'

Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi (pictured) was found guilty of being a leading figure in the Calciopoli scandal, which is the most damaging in Italian football history +10
Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi (pictured) was found guilty of being a leading figure in the Calciopoli scandal, which is the most damaging in Italian football history

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Juventus were relegated and had their Serie A titles of 2005 and 2006 stripped from them

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Police confirmed the investigation into the accounting and key figures at the club, such as Pavel Nedved and president Andrea Agnelli, are among those being scrutinised.

Italian outlet Gazzetta dello Sport claims that 42 transfers - including those involving Joao Cancelo, Arthur, Danilo and Miralem Pjanic - are being analysed by authorities.

Reports suggest police are investigating profits grossing €50million (£42m) acquired in a 24-month spell.

Indeed, Juventus have only just got over the embarrassment of Luis Suarez's Italian passport scandal of last year, when it appeared he was set to move to Turin.

The Uruguayan forward caused a stir after he was accused of cheating in the Italian language exam he needed to pass to secure residency in the country and move to the Serie A champions.

An investigation determined the striker had cheated and the professor and director of the university where Suarez took his Italian exam were suspended for eight months following a police investigation.

But nothing brought more shame and embarrassment to Juventus than Calciopoli.

Here, Sportsmail looks back at Calciopoli and how an investigation into alleged doping soon unearthed something far murkier which brought devastating consequences for Juventus and Italian football.

Juventus find themselves under scrutiny once more after police raided two of their offices +10
Juventus find themselves under scrutiny once more after police raided two of their offices

Pavel Nedved (right), Andrea Agnelli (centre) and Fabio Paratici (left) are under investigation +10
Pavel Nedved (right), Andrea Agnelli (centre) and Fabio Paratici (left) are under investigation


Whenever the Calciopoli scandal is raised as a topic of discussion in Italy it stirs up plenty of emotion.

Question marks had been hanging around Juventus since the late 1990s and in 2004, following a two-year investigation, club doctor Riccardo Agricola was sentenced to 22 months in prison after he was found guilty of providing erythropoietin (EPO), a performance enhancing drug, to players between 1994-98.

The club itself was eventually cleared of wrongdoing and were not stripped of their titles - they won Serie A three times and a Champions League in that period - but it left a dark cloud.

And so, at the end of the trial further examinations were undertaken by authorities as they looked into the GEA World player agency, ran by Alessandro Moggi, son of former Juventus general manager Luciano.

Juventus' 2004-05 title was taken off them after wire-taps unearthed damning allegations that officials at the club had created a culture of pressure to influence referees in Juve matches +10
Juventus' 2004-05 title was taken off them after wire-taps unearthed damning allegations that officials at the club had created a culture of pressure to influence referees in Juve matches

A task force was established and there emerged myriad documents and transcripts of wire-tapped phone calls which brought Italian football into disrepute.

Luciano Moggi, along with ally Antonio Giraudo, who was also caught up in the Agricola scandal, was accused of trying to influence Juventus' results by pressuring delegators into allocating certain referees for their matches.

Thousands of hours of calls, unearthed via wire-taps across the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, were leaked in transcript form to Italian newspapers and the scandal dominated Italian football.

Reports at the time said leading paper Gazzetta dello Sport saw a spike of 50,000 sales a day as new allegations surfaced.

One such transcript that emerged in the papers focused on a call between Moggi and Pierluigi Pairetto, the president of the Italian Referees' Association, who was often nicknamed 'Gigi', in August 2004.

Juventus had just drawn 2-2 in a Champions League match with Swedish side Djurgarden and Moggi was incensed because Juve striker Fabrizio Miccoli had had a goal chalked off.

Along with Moggi (right), former Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo (left) was caught in the sting +10
Along with Moggi (right), former Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo (left) was caught in the sting

The transcript read:

Pairetto: Hello!

Moggi: Gigi? Where are you?

Pairetto: We left.

Moggi: Oh, what kind of f*** referee did you send us?

Pairetto: Oh, Fandel is one of the best.

Moggi: I know, but Miccoli's goal was valid.

Pairetto: No, it wasn't.

Moggi: It was valid. It was valid!

Pairetto: No, it was right in front [of the ref].

Moggi: What are you talking about? It wasn't in front. All throughout the match, he messed things up for us!

Pairetto: But he's one of the top…

Moggi: He can go and f*** himself. And for Stockholm [the return leg], I'm counting on you!

Pairetto: For f***'s sake. Mamma mia. This surely has to be a proper match.

Moggi: No, we'll win. You know…

The match-fixing scandals of Milan and Lazio in the 1980s soon found themselves dwarfed by the scale of what was unearthed against Juventus and Luciano Moggi.

Investigators pursued two allegations which concerned him and his son Alessandro.

Luciano Moggi was accused of pioneering a scheme that pressured referees, through delegators, into giving favourable decisions for Juventus in matches.

GEA World, run by Alessandro Moggi, was alleged to have established a culture of bullying players into signing for the agency and agreeing to contracts 'against their will'.

Juventus celebrated successive titles in 2005-06 but at this point allegations were rife +10
Juventus celebrated successive titles in 2005-06 but at this point allegations were rife

CALCIOPOLI PUNISHMENTS
Juventus: Relegation to Serie B and -9 points for 2006-07 season. Originally deducted 30 points but that was later reduced on appeal

Lazio: Deducted three points and kicked out of the UEFA Cup for 2006-07

Fiorentina: -15 points in Serie A for the next season, kicked out of the Champions League and they had to play two games behind closed doors

Reggina: Deducted 11 points and fined €100,000

AC Milan: -7 points in Serie A for the next season. Had to play one match behind closed doors.

They had 30 points deducted from their 2005-06 season total

ADVERTISEMENT
Luciano Moggi, along with Giraudo, were accused of pressuring match officials.

In one example, following a 2-1 defeat to Reggina in November 2004, Moggi and Giraudo are alleged to have accosted referee Gianluca Paparesta in the dressing room, along with his two assistants, and questioned why they did not favour Juventus. Those allegations have been strongly denied by Moggi and Giraudo since.

Newspapers also continued to release evidence that Moggi allegedly held talks with Serie A administrators regarding refereeing appointments.

It was suggested that Moggi attempted to influence results by pushing for certain referees to be appointed should they be more likely to favour Juventus in what were viewed as 50-50 decisions. These pieces of evidence later proved to be inconclusive against the former Juventus chief.

Juventus were not alone in being caught under the cloud of scandal; AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina all found themselves under the microscope for establishing a similar system of influencing referees.

On July 4, 2006, just five days before Italy's triumphant 2006 World Cup final win against France in Germany, Italian prosecutor Stefano Palazzi called for the four accused clubs to be kicked out of the top flight.

Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all initially demoted to Serie B but it was only Juventus that remained in the second tier on appeal.

Moggi, despite maintaining his innocence, and Giraudo were found guilty of pressuring referees and procuring favourable officials through delegators.

As a result, Juventus saw their league titles of 2004-05 and 2005-06, the latter wrapped up with 91 points, stripped.

The 2004-05 title was left unassigned but Inter Milan were later awarded the 2005-06 title, fuelling the animosity between the two sides.

The star-studded side of 2005-06 was demoted and many of those players soon left the club +10
The star-studded side of 2005-06 was demoted and many of those players soon left the club

Juventus were originally sent to Serie B - for the first time in their history - and docked 30 points for the following season, having had the 91 points of 2005-06 expunged. It was later reduced to nine points and they spent just one season outside the top flight.

But the punishment for Calciopoli, loosely translated as 'Footballgate' in English, remains one of the harshest punishments in European football history for one of its biggest clubs.

Luciano Moggi was initially banned from football for five years but was later barred from Italian football for life for his involvement.

'I thought about suicide in the first days after the Calciopoli news. Only faith in God saved me,' Moggi revealed in the the Netflix documentary Bad Sport.

'I had become everyone's target. The system did not exist, but only I had to pay.'

He added: 'I was no longer serene and I was also ashamed to walk the streets and at that moment I thought about many things, including suicide.

'Yes, in the first days after the news and the great media hype I thought about suicide to put an end to everything.'

The latest embarrassment for Juventus comes a year after transfer target Luis Suarez (middle) was accused of cheating in his Italian language exam to get Italian residency to join the club +10
The latest embarrassment for Juventus comes a year after transfer target Luis Suarez (middle) was accused of cheating in his Italian language exam to get Italian residency to join the club

Juventus were never judged to have breached Article 6 of the Italian Football Federation's laws of the game - illicit activity such as match-fixing - but the reputational damage and public humiliation from the leaked wire-taps was earth-shattering.

Star players left for rivals - Patrick Vieira and Zlatan Ibrahimovic went to Inter Milan while Fabio Cannavarro went to Real Madrid - and Juventus were the only team banished to the second tier following a series of appeals.

There is a sense in Italy that this latest transgression on accounting is likely to be overlooked, much like the Suarez Italian exam scandal, but if prosecutors find serious malpractice and push for convictions, Juve fans do not need to cast their minds back too far to see the repercussions from Calciopoli and may well fear the worst.

Following the raid on allegations of false accounting, Juventus fans are fearful of another drop +10
Following the raid on allegations of false accounting, Juventus fans are fearful of another drop

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...g-scandal.html

[Afat11]

My prediction:

Sardar Azmoun will stay at Zenit until his contract expires, allowing Zenit to find a suitable replacement.

Until then he will help the club win another championship in the RPL and showcase his skills in the UEFA Europa League.

Then he will leave Zenit, Russia's #1 club, where he had made it as a star, on great terms.

Zenit, Russia's best club, will be pleased to see Sardar Azmoun end up at a top European club as a free agent.

I’m almost of the same prediction, but the big name clubs go for the same kinds of players in summer windows: 1.) “wonderkind” young overhyped players with names like bisquito which fail 9/10 times, theyll drop 50 million on a player like that; 2.) if they strike out, they shoot for a big name aging, but proven player, a la Cavani, Suarez, etc., theyll drop 10 to 20 million to overpay for the return theyll get from such a player; and 3.) if those fail, they sign a player who did well within their league, like Porto signing Taremi.

I’ve not seen a major summer transfer for a person in Sardar’s position happen, at least in the time I’ve followed the sport. I’m summer, Sardar’s choices will be back to teams like Lyon, Leverkusen, Roma, etc. level. The big teams already have their wish list for summer set. Juve has scamacca and some other players ready to go for in summer. The only reason they’re looking at Sardar now is they’re in a predicament in the middle of the season where they need a player of Sardar’s profile for cheap. In the summer, big teams go for marquee name signings, and unfortunately, Sardar doesn’t fit the criteria. Mostly because he’s an Iranian playing in russia. If he were South American and playing in a top 5 league already, he would’ve been scooped up by a major team 4 years ago.

[kian_khosh]

if you are right, i dont think it will be juve then. probably an eaven better team. also read about a new razzia against juve few months ago, dont know what the outcome was though..


Calciopoli was the darkest moment in Italian football history, but the new police raid on Juventus over false accounting claims - and a potential RELEGATION - are bringing back bad memories of the match-fixing scandal
Juventus 'could be RELEGATED to Serie B and STRIPPED of their last Serie A title' in an investigation for false accounting on transfer fees
EXCLUSIVE: Tottenham's £47m deal for Cristian Romero is among 42 transfers investigated by Italian authorities amid probe into Juventus' financial dealings
This investigation sparks memories of the infamous 2006 Calciopoli scandal
Then-Juventus chief Luciano Moggi was accused of directly influencing matches
Wire-taps by investigators found a 'system', and had Juventus demoted
AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina were implicated but Juve had two titles stripped
By NATHAN SALT FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 20:00 GMT, 30 November 2021 | UPDATED: 20:00 GMT, 30 November 2021

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When news broke over the weekend that Juventus' offices in Turin and Milan had been raided by police, minds were cast back 15 years to the Calciopoli scandal which ripped apart Italian football and decimated Juve for years to come.

This latest probe is focused on the club's transfer dealings, profits from deals and agents fees finalised between 2019 and 2021.

The Italian football giants have been accused of false accounting and the president of the Italian association for the protection of consumer rights (CODACONS) believes Juventus could be demoted to the second division and have Serie A titles stripped if it is deemed they gained an unfair advantage over rivals.



'The accusatory system is very serious and throws a sinister light on the last football championships, also because there has been a real Juventus dominance in recent years, which ended in the past year,' Marco Donzelli said, quoted by TMW.

'If Juventus were to have illegitimately gained an advantage over rival clubs with operations of this type, then the regularity of the last football championships would fail and, as a consequence, the Federation and the Authority for market competition will have to intervene and sanction those responsible.'

Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi (pictured) was found guilty of being a leading figure in the Calciopoli scandal, which is the most damaging in Italian football history+10
Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi (pictured) was found guilty of being a leading figure in the Calciopoli scandal, which is the most damaging in Italian football history

Juventus were relegated and had their Serie A titles of 2005 and 2006 stripped from them+10
Juventus were relegated and had their Serie A titles of 2005 and 2006 stripped from them

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Police confirmed the investigation into the accounting and key figures at the club, such as Pavel Nedved and president Andrea Agnelli, are among those being scrutinised.

Italian outlet Gazzetta dello Sport claims that 42 transfers - including those involving Joao Cancelo, Arthur, Danilo and Miralem Pjanic - are being analysed by authorities.

Reports suggest police are investigating profits grossing €50million (£42m) acquired in a 24-month spell.

Indeed, Juventus have only just got over the embarrassment of Luis Suarez's Italian passport scandal of last year, when it appeared he was set to move to Turin.

The Uruguayan forward caused a stir after he was accused of cheating in the Italian language exam he needed to pass to secure residency in the country and move to the Serie A champions.

An investigation determined the striker had cheated and the professor and director of the university where Suarez took his Italian exam were suspended for eight months following a police investigation.

But nothing brought more shame and embarrassment to Juventus than Calciopoli.

Here, Sportsmail looks back at Calciopoli and how an investigation into alleged doping soon unearthed something far murkier which brought devastating consequences for Juventus and Italian football.

Juventus find themselves under scrutiny once more after police raided two of their offices+10
Juventus find themselves under scrutiny once more after police raided two of their offices

Pavel Nedved (right), Andrea Agnelli (centre) and Fabio Paratici (left) are under investigation+10
Pavel Nedved (right), Andrea Agnelli (centre) and Fabio Paratici (left) are under investigation


Whenever the Calciopoli scandal is raised as a topic of discussion in Italy it stirs up plenty of emotion.

Question marks had been hanging around Juventus since the late 1990s and in 2004, following a two-year investigation, club doctor Riccardo Agricola was sentenced to 22 months in prison after he was found guilty of providing erythropoietin (EPO), a performance enhancing drug, to players between 1994-98.

The club itself was eventually cleared of wrongdoing and were not stripped of their titles - they won Serie A three times and a Champions League in that period - but it left a dark cloud.

And so, at the end of the trial further examinations were undertaken by authorities as they looked into the GEA World player agency, ran by Alessandro Moggi, son of former Juventus general manager Luciano.

Juventus' 2004-05 title was taken off them after wire-taps unearthed damning allegations that officials at the club had created a culture of pressure to influence referees in Juve matches+10
Juventus' 2004-05 title was taken off them after wire-taps unearthed damning allegations that officials at the club had created a culture of pressure to influence referees in Juve matches

A task force was established and there emerged myriad documents and transcripts of wire-tapped phone calls which brought Italian football into disrepute.

Luciano Moggi, along with ally Antonio Giraudo, who was also caught up in the Agricola scandal, was accused of trying to influence Juventus' results by pressuring delegators into allocating certain referees for their matches.

Thousands of hours of calls, unearthed via wire-taps across the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, were leaked in transcript form to Italian newspapers and the scandal dominated Italian football.

Reports at the time said leading paper Gazzetta dello Sport saw a spike of 50,000 sales a day as new allegations surfaced.

One such transcript that emerged in the papers focused on a call between Moggi and Pierluigi Pairetto, the president of the Italian Referees' Association, who was often nicknamed 'Gigi', in August 2004.

Juventus had just drawn 2-2 in a Champions League match with Swedish side Djurgarden and Moggi was incensed because Juve striker Fabrizio Miccoli had had a goal chalked off.

Along with Moggi (right), former Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo (left) was caught in the sting+10
Along with Moggi (right), former Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo (left) was caught in the sting

The transcript read:

Pairetto: Hello!

Moggi: Gigi? Where are you?

Pairetto: We left.

Moggi: Oh, what kind of f*** referee did you send us?

Pairetto: Oh, Fandel is one of the best.

Moggi: I know, but Miccoli's goal was valid.

Pairetto: No, it wasn't.

Moggi: It was valid. It was valid!

Pairetto: No, it was right in front [of the ref].

Moggi: What are you talking about? It wasn't in front. All throughout the match, he messed things up for us!

Pairetto: But he's one of the top…

Moggi: He can go and f*** himself. And for Stockholm [the return leg], I'm counting on you!

Pairetto: For f***'s sake. Mamma mia. This surely has to be a proper match.

Moggi: No, we'll win. You know…

The match-fixing scandals of Milan and Lazio in the 1980s soon found themselves dwarfed by the scale of what was unearthed against Juventus and Luciano Moggi.

Investigators pursued two allegations which concerned him and his son Alessandro.

Luciano Moggi was accused of pioneering a scheme that pressured referees, through delegators, into giving favourable decisions for Juventus in matches.

GEA World, run by Alessandro Moggi, was alleged to have established a culture of bullying players into signing for the agency and agreeing to contracts 'against their will'.

Juventus celebrated successive titles in 2005-06 but at this point allegations were rife+10
Juventus celebrated successive titles in 2005-06 but at this point allegations were rife

CALCIOPOLI PUNISHMENTS
Juventus: Relegation to Serie B and -9 points for 2006-07 season. Originally deducted 30 points but that was later reduced on appeal

Lazio: Deducted three points and kicked out of the UEFA Cup for 2006-07

Fiorentina: -15 points in Serie A for the next season, kicked out of the Champions League and they had to play two games behind closed doors

Reggina: Deducted 11 points and fined €100,000

AC Milan: -7 points in Serie A for the next season. Had to play one match behind closed doors.

They had 30 points deducted from their 2005-06 season total

ADVERTISEMENT
Luciano Moggi, along with Giraudo, were accused of pressuring match officials.

In one example, following a 2-1 defeat to Reggina in November 2004, Moggi and Giraudo are alleged to have accosted referee Gianluca Paparesta in the dressing room, along with his two assistants, and questioned why they did not favour Juventus. Those allegations have been strongly denied by Moggi and Giraudo since.

Newspapers also continued to release evidence that Moggi allegedly held talks with Serie A administrators regarding refereeing appointments.

It was suggested that Moggi attempted to influence results by pushing for certain referees to be appointed should they be more likely to favour Juventus in what were viewed as 50-50 decisions. These pieces of evidence later proved to be inconclusive against the former Juventus chief.

Juventus were not alone in being caught under the cloud of scandal; AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina all found themselves under the microscope for establishing a similar system of influencing referees.

On July 4, 2006, just five days before Italy's triumphant 2006 World Cup final win against France in Germany, Italian prosecutor Stefano Palazzi called for the four accused clubs to be kicked out of the top flight.

Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all initially demoted to Serie B but it was only Juventus that remained in the second tier on appeal.

Moggi, despite maintaining his innocence, and Giraudo were found guilty of pressuring referees and procuring favourable officials through delegators.

As a result, Juventus saw their league titles of 2004-05 and 2005-06, the latter wrapped up with 91 points, stripped.

The 2004-05 title was left unassigned but Inter Milan were later awarded the 2005-06 title, fuelling the animosity between the two sides.

The star-studded side of 2005-06 was demoted and many of those players soon left the club+10
The star-studded side of 2005-06 was demoted and many of those players soon left the club

Juventus were originally sent to Serie B - for the first time in their history - and docked 30 points for the following season, having had the 91 points of 2005-06 expunged. It was later reduced to nine points and they spent just one season outside the top flight.

But the punishment for Calciopoli, loosely translated as 'Footballgate' in English, remains one of the harshest punishments in European football history for one of its biggest clubs.

Luciano Moggi was initially banned from football for five years but was later barred from Italian football for life for his involvement.

'I thought about suicide in the first days after the Calciopoli news. Only faith in God saved me,' Moggi revealed in the the Netflix documentary Bad Sport.

'I had become everyone's target. The system did not exist, but only I had to pay.'

He added: 'I was no longer serene and I was also ashamed to walk the streets and at that moment I thought about many things, including suicide.

'Yes, in the first days after the news and the great media hype I thought about suicide to put an end to everything.'

The latest embarrassment for Juventus comes a year after transfer target Luis Suarez (middle) was accused of cheating in his Italian language exam to get Italian residency to join the club+10
The latest embarrassment for Juventus comes a year after transfer target Luis Suarez (middle) was accused of cheating in his Italian language exam to get Italian residency to join the club

Juventus were never judged to have breached Article 6 of the Italian Football Federation's laws of the game - illicit activity such as match-fixing - but the reputational damage and public humiliation from the leaked wire-taps was earth-shattering.

Star players left for rivals - Patrick Vieira and Zlatan Ibrahimovic went to Inter Milan while Fabio Cannavarro went to Real Madrid - and Juventus were the only team banished to the second tier following a series of appeals.

There is a sense in Italy that this latest transgression on accounting is likely to be overlooked, much like the Suarez Italian exam scandal, but if prosecutors find serious malpractice and push for convictions, Juve fans do not need to cast their minds back too far to see the repercussions from Calciopoli and may well fear the worst.

Following the raid on allegations of false accounting, Juventus fans are fearful of another drop+10
Following the raid on allegations of false accounting, Juventus fans are fearful of another drop

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...g-scandal.html

this is a longer read than the old testament[emoji23]

[PSGman#19]

I’m almost of the same prediction, but the big name clubs go for the same kinds of players in summer windows: 1.) “wonderkind” young overhyped players with names like bisquito which fail 9/10 times, theyll drop 50 million on a player like that; 2.) if they strike out, they shoot for a big name aging, but proven player, a la Cavani, Suarez, etc., theyll drop 10 to 20 million to overpay for the return theyll get from such a player; and 3.) if those fail, they sign a player who did well within their league, like Porto signing Taremi.

I’ve not seen a major summer transfer for a person in Sardar’s position happen, at least in the time I’ve followed the sport. I’m summer, Sardar’s choices will be back to teams like Lyon, Leverkusen, Roma, etc. level. The big teams already have their wish list for summer set. Juve has scamacca and some other players ready to go for in summer. The only reason they’re looking at Sardar now is they’re in a predicament in the middle of the season where they need a player of Sardar’s profile for cheap. In the summer, big teams go for marquee name signings, and unfortunately, Sardar doesn’t fit the criteria. Mostly because he’s an Iranian playing in russia. If he were South American and playing in a top 5 league already, he would’ve been scooped up by a major team 4 years ago.

Exactly, they will always find someone out of nowhere instead of him. Alvarez from river plate, cabral from basel, vlahovic are the new hype.
The only way for azmoun is to join juve now and score some goal there.

[Keshwardoost]

this is a longer read than the old testament[emoji23]

Yeah we have time to kill before game starts..

one funny thing was cheating on italian test and getting caought,

[Leicester City]

Zenit are close to signing striker Yuri Alberto. A chance for Lyon in the Azmoun file, because the Russians wanted to hire a replacement before going further. Azmoun is in contact with OL but also Juve.

Azmoun's replacement. To clarify: Yuri Alberto replaces Azmoun and Ivan Sergeev replaces Dzyuba.

[Kiarash]

Now Zenit has their replacement, chances for Azmoun to leave are getting bigger.

[Leicester City]

Now Zenit has their replacement, chances for Azmoun to leave are getting bigger.

But... but... inarsenewetrust told us that he's not leaving... 🥺

[Leicester City]

LOL what a sooti by RMC Sport, they called Azmoun Israeli. World class journalism right there folks!

Mostafa Mohammad is plan-B option to Azmoun for Lyon.

[Leicester City]

Azmoun following Bayern Leverkusen? 🤔

[PrinceAli]

[puddha]

Sardar featured on Tifo Athletics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj6u2cXQcks

[Ghermez Agha]

Not sure if it’s a sign of anything but Sardar isn’t in the match day squad for their friendly today against an emarati team. Malcom also is missing from the squad but besides them two everyone is pretty much there