Frozen Throughout Summer Ends In Bitter, Bonucci Launches Lawsuit To Juventus

Union Berlin player Leonardo Bonucci will sue Juventus. (Photo: Twitter/@fcunion)

JAKARTA - The relationship between Leonardo Bonucci and Juventus is heating up. Sources in Italy said the player would take legal action against Juventus after being frozen from the first team over the past summer.

Quoted from Football Italia on Wednesday, September 13, Bonucci had undergone separate training during the pre-season period. It happened because his name was no longer included in Massimiliano Allegri's coach plan.

Now Bonucci has joined Union Berlin on a free transfer. Regarding his move, the player felt it was because Juventus set the situation through circumstances that kept him out of the first team for several weeks.

Two Italian journalists, Romeo Agresti and Gianluca Di Marzio, said Bonucci would sue Juventus, who allegedly did not place him in an ideal condition to train.

In Bonucci's planned report, Juventus is considered to have violated a joint agreement with the Italian Footballers Association.

Di sisi lain, Di Marzio melaporkan, jadwal latihan Bonucci selama masih bersama Si Buan Tua dibuat berbeda. Ia menjalani latihan Juventus pada malam yang berbeda dari anggota tim lainnya.

This inevitably makes Bonucci never meet with technical staff and cannot use all training facilities.

Bonucci's lawyers Antonio Conte and Gabriele Zuccheretti are reported to have filed a lawsuit this Tuesday. If his client wins the lawsuit, lawyers say Bonucci will donate the money to Neuroland.

Neuroland itself is a Non-Governmental Institution that supports the families of children treated in the Department of Child Faculty Surgery at Regina Margherita Hospital in Turin and Live Onlus, who buys and donates defibrillators to sports clubs, schools and cities.