Greetings to Ronaldo, the relaunch of the battle for the Super League and the request for unity from the whole environment, but also and above all the official launch of the 400 million euro capital increase with the new guidelines for the future. Andrea Agnelli plays across the board in the Juventus shareholders’ meeting, held outdoors in the stadium stands, on the day when the past, present and future come together. The time to pay homage to the Giampiero Boniperti flag with a minute of silence and the Juventus president takes stock of the situation on a closed balance sheet with almost 210 million euros in liabilities. “In 2019 there was a capital increase of 300 million – recalls Andrea Agnelli – and the goal was to think big, hiring the best player in the world and starting an expansion plan to consolidate the results of those years. In January 2020 we complete the capital increase and in February the world stops: Covid arrives and hits hard. The impact was 320 million euros between direct and indirect effects, we will clean up the effects of Covid at the end of this season. The 2019 investment plan was credible and had medium-term effects, but it is still credible today thanks to the capital increase “.
Juventus plans to close the next budget, as of June 30, 2022, with a strong deficit, but now it will move on 5 floors, waiting to set the objectives with an Investo Day in the new year. “Now we will take a path towards credibility – explains Agnelli -: we will seek financial stability in the medium-long term, we will have a different dimensional management, there will be a new board of directors with an ad hoc committee on sustainability issues and we will continue to be pioneers in the sports policies of the industry. The current pyramid is not good and everyone is complaining, but any attempt to change is shelved: those who have votes do not have the weight and those who have the weight do not have the votes. I worked loyally to change a system that does not protect investors and does not respect sports meritocracy. Suffice it to say that many champion teams from their nations do not participate in the Champions League. The birth of the Super League was the realization, by not 3 but 12 clubs, of the fact that the scaffolding on which football rests refuses any change, to maintain a political class that does not take risks, does not compete, but wants to decide and cash out. I do not want to give up and I will not give up: the system needs a change and Juventus wants to be part of it, and it is a change that requires dialogue from everyone “.
The fifth floor of the new Juve, on the other hand, is the one relating to the sporting part. “The results of the first team have been unrepeatable in recent years – underlined Andrea Agnelli to the shareholders -, but I don’t expect either gratitude or fulfillment. I cannot expect what I cannot guarantee either, but the confidence in Pavel, Maurizio, Federico and above all of our coach Massimiliano Allegri cannot fail. It applies to me and to everyone: together we have worked in these 10 years to feed the issue of credibility. We have to work as a single body, knowing that the team and the group come first and foremost. We are all useful and none indispensable: it was an honor and a pleasure to have Ronaldo, we can only applaud and thank him. The only sin is having had a year and a half without fans. But the Juve shirt requires responsibility and Juventus are bigger than anyone who has had the honor of being here. Juve comes first and then let’s go back to Juventus’ values: work, self-denial, sacrifice and discipline. Because the senses of life are four, as Oriana Fallaci said: to love, to fight, to suffer and to win. So we want to love Juve, fight for Juve, suffer for Juve and we know we have to win for Juve. “
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