Juventus president Andrea Agnelli and rest of club's board resign (woooooooooot!)

[Celerity]

Juventus president Andrea Agnelli and vice-president Pavel Nedved have resigned from the club alongside entire board of directors; Serie A club have been accused of false accounting and market manipulation in recent months and recorded record losses; the company has denied any wrongdoing

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12757630/juventus-president-andrea-agnelli-and-rest-of-clubs-board-resign

The collective resignation comes after Juventus' financial statements underwent scrutiny by prosecutors and Italian market regulator Consob in recent months for alleged false accounting and market manipulation. The company has denied any wrongdoing. Furthermore, Juventus published an annual loss of £220m for last season - a record-breaking fee in the history of the club.

A Juventus statement read: "The Board of Directors, considering the focus and relevance of the pending legal and technical-accounting issues, have deemed it in the best interest to recommend that Juventus adopt a new Board of Directors to deal with these issues."

Alongside Agnelli, vice-president Pavel Nedved has offered his resignation as has chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene - but Juventus have asked the latter to remain in his position to transition over to the next board of directors. Board members Laurence Debroux, Massimo Della Ragione, Katryn Fink, Daniela Marilungo, Francesco Roncaglio, Giorgio Tacchia and Suzanne Keywood have also stepped down.

President Agnelli has been at the Juventus helm since 2010 and was one of the main figures in setting up the European Super League which failed to take shape last year, acting as vice-chairman of the division. Juventus, under Agnelli's stewardship, are still signed up to the breakaway league along with Barcelona and Real Madrid, despite the other nine European clubs quickly stepping away from the project due to backlash from the football community.

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the Agnelli mafia finally is cleansed out of football, they were one of, if not the most, toxic forces in football for decades

the sui generis of FFP, as well as puppeteering UEFA for ages

popping some champagne

this has been a LONG held desire of mine

[Baggies]

1. Wonder if they'll get relegated to Serie B?

They’ve traveled that road before.

I guess we’ll get to watch a documentary about this on Netflix in due time.