New Delhi: There is a new hearing in the ongoing legal dispute between Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo is scheduled for March 2025. A judge will decide whether to proceed with Juve’s appeal in the Work Tribunal during its initial hearing, which is set for March. The Collegio Arbitrale court decided in April 2024 that Juventus had to reimburse Ronaldo for unpaid salaries from his stint at the club, which came to almost €9.8 million.
Ronaldo, who spent four seasons with the Italian giants, made a total of 134 appearances, where he scored a total of 101 goals for the Old Lady. However, by the end of his stint at the club, a lot of financial issues were taken into consideration, and now the legal battle between the two parties, Ronaldo and Juventus, will be fought in 2025.
What led to this situation between Juventus and Ronaldo?
⚪️⚫️🇵🇹 Juventus have decided to challenge the Cristiano Ronaldo ruling after he officially won his legal battle with the club over his wage dispute.
Juventus will work legally to avoid paying Cristiano around €9.8m plus interest. pic.twitter.com/MR8k9nugXI
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) May 23, 2024
Back in the month of May 2024, the Italian giants challenged their former player, Cristiano Ronaldo, after he won the legal battle back in the month of April. Fast forward to October 2024, the case has been scheduled for 2025, as the two parties will come head to head against each other for further conclusions.
The Salary Manoeuvre that was implemented by the Bianconeri during the peak of the Covid epidemic in 2020, was the root of the entire problem. In order to support the team during the time when football was not being played, the players had publicly pledged to forfeit two months’ worth of pay. This account of events was refuted by an investigation conducted in November 2022, which found that many of them would still receive their salaries in other ways.
There was a dispute over whether Cristiano Ronaldo had signed away the rights to that money when he left Juventus in August 2021 because his deadline day transfer to Manchester United was hurried through. Juventus were eventually penalised 15 Serie A points as part of the larger financial inquiry; on appeal, the penalty was lowered to 10 points along with a plea deal.
