GazzSport: “Sump, uphill sprint: risked -4”

“Samp, run up the hill. He risked minus 4,” captioned pink

Sampdoria’s direction comes at a decidedly delicate moment for Serie B, which still doesn’t know 20 teams in the next league following the Covisoc decision of June 30 last year and the decisions of the Federal Council expected tomorrow, pending various appeals. However, the Sampdoria case is different and does not concern registration. But it will not work painlessly, because 2 penalty points will definitely come. And this is good news for the club, there could be more of them. Let’s try to explain.

Bad news. The penalty will come because Samp failed to pay by the May 30 deadline part of the Irpef withholding taxes (995,727 euros) and one of the INPS contributions (1,669,415 euros) relating to the first quarter of 2023. Payment has been made. a week later, and if this had not been done, Covisoc would definitely not have approved the application for registration, which had to be submitted before June 20th. In fact, Sump is not among the rejected teams (like Lecco and Regina). Missing this deadline will still result in -2: the club can ask for a plea deal, as two managers Gianni Panconi and Alberto Bosco have already done (and the FIGC prosecutor gave his consent). A date for any trial must be set and will only take place if the club chooses not to negotiate.

The good news is that there will be no late pay penalty that was feared. Having said that Serie A has quarterly deadlines (not bimonthly like B and C), Sampdoria paid them late (always by June 20 anyway) because the distribution of Ligue A revenues was delayed for a few days, and so she did not depend on his will. At least that was the club’s version that the FIGC prosecutor seems to have understood and therefore would have prevented this second pass, which would have resulted in another 2-point penalty.