Juventus Takes Ronaldo Wage Dispute To Italy’s Highest Court

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...