Juventus has asked Italy’s Court of Cassation to overturn a ruling requiring the club to pay Cristiano Ronaldo €9.8 million in deferred wages, moving their long-running financial dispute with the former forward to the country’s final appeals stage.
The appeal was filed on March 27, 2026, according to Juventus’s financial report for the 2025-26 season. No hearing date has been set. Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport first reported the move.
The dispute dates to 2021, when Ronaldo left Juventus to return to Manchester United. It centers on an agreement during the COVID-19 pandemic in which the club reportedly promised to defer €19.5 million in wages. Investigators found a private document, known as the “Ronaldo letter,” while examining Juventus’s finances and the club’s broader pandemic-era wage arrangements with players.
An arbitration panel ruled by majority in April 2024 that Juventus must pay Ronaldo €9.8 million, plus interest and inflation-linked adjustments—roughly half of what he initially sought. The panel found no evidence that Juventus deliberately misled Ronaldo and noted that he did not claim the money when he left Italy in 2021.
Juventus appealed, but the labour court in Turin rejected the challenge in January 2026 and upheld the award. The club has now turned to the Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court.
Juventus also told investors that the cost of the ruling has been included in its accounts since the 2023-24 financial year. As a result, the club said no further impact is expected on its current or future financial statements.
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