A great hope of Italian football, Nicolo Fagioli revealed himself in the 2022/2023 season where he had managed to make his hole in Juventus. The midfielder born in Piacenza had nevertheless surprised everyone the following season by being suspended 7 months from the football fields while having a fine of 12,500 euros. A stop for the career of the young 24 -year -old who also admitted his addiction in February 2024: “I started at 16, maybe in loneliness. (…) At the beginning it was like a game, then it became slowly a disease, I started immediately with sports betting when I played Juve in the Academy of young people. Before losing control, I really liked to play, I was looking for dopamine without knowing it. I then understood that it was a disease, but I took too long to find help. (…) I was always nervous, my only outlet was the game because I was going badly and that made me a footballer who did not give himself 100 % on the ground. ” Not really in Thiago Motta's plans this season, he joined Fiorentina this winter when he became a must -have of the Viola de Raffaele Palladino.
However, it does not mean that the problems are finished for Nicolo Fagioli. In recent days, the Milan prosecution has launched an investigation into many players evolving or passed by Serie A like Nicolo Zaniolo, Alessandro Florenzi, Leandro Paredes, Weston McKennie, Angel Di Maria, Raoul Bellano, Samuele Ricci, Cristian Buoniuto or Matteo Cancellieri. The investigations revolve around a illegal Paris network in which Nicolo Fagioli and Sandro Tonali are suspected of having “recruited players” by contacting their teammates and friends. A fairly vague role in this case from the two players and in particular Nicolo Fagioli whose private conversations are recently released in the Italian press and their content is striking.
Nicolo Fagioli put himself in a very difficult situation
In total, Nicolo Fagioli would have borrowed the sum of 587,000 euros from 31 different people as announced La Gazzetta dello Sport. The stratagem was to make false purchases of Rolex watches within the Elysium jewelry (which has since been closed by Italian justice and 1.5 million euros was seized). A process explained in private by Nicolo Fagioli to Gianmaria Zanandrea, his former teammate within the young people of Juventus: “In short, we buy Rolex watches in this Milanese center that Alvaro makes me pay much cheaper! Then, the store, as soon as the money is sent to them, begins to resell them and we make profit. (…) It's a Rolex store, she can't do anything. They do it so that I can advertise it, me and Alvaro (Morata Edlr).Nevertheless, that did not arrang the situation of Nicolo Fagioli who had many debts and found himself in a difficult situation.
Defender of Leicester and Italian international, Caleb Okoli who had lent him 41,000 euros had been vehement towards him, because he took time to settle his debts: “We are not talking about Monday or Tuesday, but for 5 or 6 months, you have been asking everyone's money. And then you have debts towards everyone. Are you an idiot, huh? I'm waiting for me on Monday and after, you annoyed me because you came to tell me that your father needed it and I gave you the money right away.“Accumulating the debts, Nicolo Fagioli put himself in difficulty towards certain criminals of Rome as” Nelly “, a man not yet identified who would have had threatening remarks against him when he was around 2.8 million debts in total. An amount difficult to reimburse for the player and who impacted him on the field.
“”I made mistakes, but I don't know how to manage the situation. Today, Juve spoke to me, telling me if I had a problem, because they realize that I have a problem, that they have heard of the game and that they do not see me anymore, my head high, on the field and in match … Tomorrow, I will not play and if it continues like that, I would always be on the bench, but it is true, I can no longer go on happy field … because I am not, and excuses, nor anything. And if the bomb explodes, I am damn for life. Even Juve told me the same thing today. In the evening, I'm sad and I'm not going to the field of good time … Can you talk to the leaders to find out if they can help me or not? Because this is a problem that exceeds me“He said in remarks revealed by La Republicca.
