There is controversy over Juventus’ plea bargain on the payroll deal and Gravina’s reaction to the news: the Ternana president launches a scathing attack on him
Stefano Bandecchi, president of Ternana and mayor of Terni, took to the microphones of calciomercato.it, broadcast on the Twitch TVPLAY channel, to voice his attack on Gravina.
“With all due respect to Gravina,” said Bandecchi, “I think he needs to change his dealer. He said something very serious both as a man and as a charge. He was wrong, what he said has neither head nor tail, maybe he wanted to say something different. There is no one who can be considered above the law, because if not, excuse me, tomorrow I’ll go and rob a bank and with that money I’ll solve my problems’.
“The world of football needs to align itself more with everyday issues. I love the Reggina fans, but Chievo had a similar situation and was made to go bankrupt,’ the Ternana president recalled. “Perhaps I continue to understand little about the world of football… Juventus has incredible debts like Milan and Inter, it’s a world that makes a very good living for footballers, coaches, but then slaughters the presidents. “
“Talk with Gravina? There are always discussions, Serie A takes much more money than us and there are incredible discussions between A and B. Yet in B we have incredible expenses and in fact those who go up to A shortly afterwards go down. In reality there is not much dialogue today. “
Ternana president’s attack on Gravina: “He was wrong”
Gravina, FIGC president
“I have always behaved in the right way,” the interviewee continued. “I paid the taxes I had to pay, the salaries I had to pay. The world of football particularly sucks for me, and every time something else emerges. There are too many irregularities that are passed over. I think from tomorrow I’ll start stealing in order to save some money, then I expect to be acquitted because I make so much money and I’m in the world of football. “
“I think there are dozens of leagues between A and D that should be thrown away. Things should be rebalanced, because those who do certain tricks inevitably have more money than others,’ the president said again. ‘It’s pointless for anyone to play the fan, here we must return to the concept of justice. Otherwise we go back to 1979, when men could kill women if they thought they were sluts, but women could not kill men’.
Moral of the story? According to the interviewee there is only one way to save oneself: ‘We have to rewire our brains. Here there are things that go beyond the green rectangle, there are those who steal and those who do not steal. And if you’ve stolen you have to accept your sentence, it applies to everyone, it can’t not apply to Juventus or Milan or Inter, otherwise they’d get their championship. “
