Overview

• Rome prosecutors have asked a judge to send president Aurelio De Laurentiis and CEO Andrea Chiavelli to trial for alleged false accounting, with a preliminary hearing set for 6 November, while the sporting case was closed with a 2022 acquittal.
• The files published by Repubblica include WhatsApp messages in which deputy sporting director Giuseppe Pompilio tells then‑DS Cristiano Giuntoli not to leave email traces, alongside an exchange where CEO Andrea Chiavelli remarks, “Let’s hope they refuse… otherwise we’ll have to turn to robberies.”
• The 2020 transfer is reconstructed as a roughly €70 million operation padded by about €20 million in counterpart valuations for Orestis Karnezis and youth players Claudio Manzi, Luigi Liguori and Ciro Palmieri, who told investigators they were never contacted by Lille or given medicals.
• Messages attributed to then‑Lille president Gerard Lopez describe achieving a required “nominal value” to close the French club’s accounts, including an initial €20 million valuation for Karnezis with instructions to keep the price confidential.
• Lille’s administrative director Julien Mordacq warned CEO Marc Ingla in an internal email that unusual elements in the multi‑player arrangement could raise questions requiring real answers and justifications.