Juventus and Aston Villa triple deal, real costs and questions | OneFootball

Now that the figures are confirmed, the sale of Samuel Iling-Junior and Enzo Barrenechea to Aston Villa covers the cost of Douglas Luiz for Juventus, but there are still questions.

As Juve are on the stock exchange, they need to give very clear financial details of their transfers.

In a series of statements over the last two days, the Bianconeri confirmed that Douglas Luiz was signed for €50m from Aston Villa.

At the same time, Juventus sold Iling-Junior for €14m plus up to €3m in bonuses and Barrenechea for €8m plus up to €3m in bonuses.

Calcio e Finanza point out that considering amortisation, salaries and profit margin, the sale of the two players has a beneficial effect of €20.1m on the balance sheet ending June 30, 2025.

Considering the purchase fee and salary of Douglas Luiz, reported to be €5m per season net, that will cost €19.25m in the same balance sheet, so they effectively cancel each other out.

Juventus and Aston Villa balance the books

The statements are very careful to point out that these are “separate and distinct transactions, both contractually and substantively.”

There is also a note focused on the “interpretative uncertainties regarding the application of IAS 38,” so Juventus are being extra careful when calculating “fair value.”

This is somewhat inevitable when in 2022-23 they were docked points, given a huge fine and had to change their entire Board of Directors over the scandal regarding ‘artificially inflated’ transfer values to balance the books.

They are hedging their bets and waiting until drawing up the balance sheet in February 2025.

As for why the deals were announced on separate days, that is because Aston Villa needed the sale by June 30 to avoid falling foul of the English version of Financial Fair Play, whereas it suits them to make the signings in the financial year beginning July 1.