Miccoli: Moggi threatened me
The GEA agency trial continues with Fabrizio Miccoli testifying that he received threats from Luciano Moggi when he refused to join Portsmouth.
The investigation into GEA World has already seen the likes of Fabio Capello and Antonio Giraudo called to testify amid allegations of underhand practices in the talent agency run by Moggi’s son, Alessandro.
In 2004 Miccoli was playing for Perugia on loan and alleged that when he returned to Juventus the atmosphere changed.
“My agent has always been Francesco Caliandro,” he explained. “In 2004, when I was on loan at Perugia but already owned by Juve, Antonio Conte called me up.
“At the time he was a Juve player who I had never met before, although we were from the same city, Lecce.
“Conte told me to sign up with Alessandro Moggi, as the next year I would return to Juventus and Moggi could help me stay on. I refused and stayed with my agent.”
According to Miccoli, this decision caused problems within the Turin club with director general Luciano Moggi.
“I had plenty of problems with him right from the start. For example, he forced me to take off my earrings, which were not allowed in the internal rules, but I was the only one who had to remove them. The same was not done to my teammates.
“Moggi tried to isolate me and wouldn’t let me speak, whereas I always had an excellent rapport with my teammates.
“When I was at Fiorentina in a co-ownership deal with Juve, I gave an interview saying I wanted to stay in Florence and not return to Turin precisely because Moggi was there. I said it would be a tragedy for me.
“At the end of the day Juve did buy me back, I went into the summer training camp and at first nobody let that weigh on my shoulders. But when we went to the Mayor’s office to celebrate the Scudetto, I was made to wait on the bus.”
There are other stories that Miccoli revealed in his testimony this afternoon which hit the headlines.
“Once I was in a training camp with Juve and Moggi called, saying he had reached an agreement with Portsmouth. I refused, as I didn’t want to go to England because I had a young daughter and my wife did not want to leave Italy.
“Moggi told me he would make sure I stopped playing, adding that nobody wanted me in Italy because I was a troublemaker and that Juve could not afford to waste money on my wages.
“The hostile attitude was entirely from Luciano Moggi and I think it was as a consequence of my refusal to sign for his son Alessandro, seeing as it was my first year at Juve and there could be no other reason.”
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