Italian international Leonardo Bonucci has put an end to the procedure he had launched for moral and professional damage against Juventus Turin, his club until 2023, Juve announced on Thursday. “Leonardo Bonucci has waived his proceedings against Juventus, who for their part accepted this decision which puts a definitive end to the dispute,” explained the Piedmontese club in a press release.
The procedure had “no financial impact”, clarified Juve, 2nd one point behind Inter Milan before the clash between the two teams on Sunday. Both parties are “fully satisfied” with the conclusion of this matter: “The successful relationship (between Bonucci and the club) built over the years remains intact,” concludes the text. Bonucci, 36, criticized Juve, his club from 2010 to 2017 and from 2018 to 2023, for having warned him last July that they were no longer counting on him, and not in October 2022 as his friends had assured. leaders.
“I decided after a lot of suffering to resort to legal action against Juventus, I read and heard so many false things coming from the club and the coach,” Bonucci explained in September to justify his decision . “To hear that after having played more than 500 matches for this club, it was a humiliation,” regretted the defender, 2021 European champion. Bonucci has since spent four months in the German Championship at Union Berlin where he did not win (10 matches in all competitions) and has just joined the Turkish club Fenerbahçe until the end of the season.
Bonucci (121 caps for the Italian team, the last in June 2023) has set himself the final objective of participating in Euro-2024 (June 14-July 14) with the Nazionale.
