“I will make you leave, work as a mason!” »Italian footballer, shocking threats because of huge gambling debts

The Milan Prosecutor's Office has revealed a complex network of illegal betting, which involves 12 A -series footballers, including sound names such as Sandro Tonali (now in Newcastle), Nicolo Fagioli (Fiorentina) and Angel Di Maria.

The network, destroyed following the investigation, had two leaders of the Italian international, both already suspended for several months.

The threats did not scare Nicolo Fagioli: “You will work as a mason!”

Serbian publication Sportal.rs has revealed messages that show how deep Nicolo Fagioli fell into gambling.

“I will make you leave! You will work as a mason. I will also take the pen with which you sign contracts”, He wrote an individual known as Neli, whose number was registered in Switzerland. His identity has not yet been revealed.

Nicolo Fagioli played 39 matches at Juventus, scoring 3 photo goals: Guliver/Gettyimages

Fagioli was suspended for seven months in October 2023 due to his involvement in this scandal, while his countryman Sandro Tonal received a ten -month suspension.

Debts of 1.5 million and sales of Rolex watches to cover losses

According to the Italian press, Fagioli's debts would have reached about 1.5 million euros, and the first loans date from September 2022.

Prosecutors claim that the footballer took money from 31 different people and tried various ways to pay their debts.

One of these methods would have involved the help of his former colleague from Juventus, Alvaro Morata. The two would have bought Rolex watches at low prices, which they would later resold at higher prices.

Radu Drăgușin gave Nicolo Fagioli's 40,000 euros

At Gazzetta Dello Sport he also published the complete list of contributions to Nicolo's network, among the players, as it was written, and Radu Drăgușin, who went to Tottenham.

Impressive is the number of more or less well-known footballers who have given Fagioli's cash loans. The footballers to whom the former Juventus player asked them to make transfers to the Elysium jewelry store or Postepay card payments:

Andrea Pirlo is the coach who had full confidence in Drăgușin, debuting him at Juventus in Serie A, Cup and League / Photo: Imago

Federico Gatti (40,000), Radu Drăgusin (40,000), Caleb Okoli (41,000), Stefano Turati (12,000), Alessio di Massimo (29,000), Alessandro Plizzari (15,000), Gianmaria Zanandrea (20,000), Paul Nardi (15,000), Leandro Vitali (15,000), Lucas Rosa (10,000) and others.

I asked Gatti 40 thousand, telling him that I needed them to buy a clock and that I had the accounts blocked by my mother. Drăgusin lent me 40 thousand euros in October 2022

Nicolo Fagioli, in front of Italian prosecutors