Let’s stop all players betting, also remove all betting companies from sponsoring any sort of football.
If he does really have a problem, I hope he will be mandated to go through some class or program to fix it.
Damn Milan got really lucky, they sold him right before this shitshow lol.
dodged a bullet there, I bitched and cried about the sale so much
Is he looking at more time than Ivan Toney?
Not decided by the English FA so who knows. If it was, it would be much longer…
why would it be longer though? Didn’t Toney do the same thing but many more times (dozens) AND he supposedly lied to investigators.
For what he did he certainly should do, for how clownish the entire system is he’s probably getting the same if not couple of months more.
Toney bet on his teams dozens of times, and lied to investigators though. Don’t see why he should get more…
Any the punishments in italy are much harsher anyway, so he will get more than Toney.
I just don’t get it. If you want to gamble why do you HAVE to gamble on football?
What would have happened if he bet on his team to lose or same fine?
Semi fun fact: when I worked at a betting company in Rome, one common visitor was Christian Panucci’s (former Milan, Real Madrid, Inter, As Roma player) brother.
He didn’t really bet that much (few hundreds), and he didn’t really win much.
But some of my colleagues told me that when his brother was playing and he was betting…he still lost money.
Anyway what the brother was doing at the time was borderline illegal I think.
If I’m Newcastle I’d be looking into whether AC Milan knew
I’d hire that Fabrizio Corona dude to look into it. He seems to know a thing or two about a lot.
Just hire Nardwuar bro
It’s almost like meee-lan had a premonition of this coming to light after his 1000th bet and thought legs dangle the carrot and see what we can catch. Got a jolly gordie on hook, line and sinker.
Could be worse tho, could be like man utd and buy any old tosh and their baggage.
Only saving grace for him is that he bet on his own team to win based on the evidence provided so far so it may be deemed that he wasn’t complicit in match fixing.
Tonali is likely to face a lesser, but still lengthy ban for his help with the investigation - and for admitting his guilt
There’s a gambling addiction and then there’s betting on your own team
Well said
I’d say betting on your own team / football in general, when it’s a three year ban for doing so, is a clear sign off addiction.
This is what I don’t get about the addiction angle. As far as we know he wasn’t betting on Malaysian badminton at 2 am or ponies at some podunk track in the middle of Arkansas… he was betting on his own team. I’m not saying he isn’t an addict, but he very clearly had some level of control. To me it suggests he just thought he wouldn’t be caught, not that he couldn’t help himself.
You don’t have to be a stereotypical degenerate head case to have genuine addiction. Especially that very very American example of an addict
No one starts at the finish line
These boys are in their early twenties and all they’ve done so far in life is play football. So they bet on what they knew. They don’t need the money one bit, it was all about the next dopamine hit
Worst Signing of All Time?
Paqueta when?
Innocent until proven guilty
Oh it’s coming lol. His betting was idiotic
Paqueta didn’t do any betting though.
Mate what’re you on about? Not only was he betting himself, but also had family and friends betting also…. ON HIMSELF during live games he was actively playing in. He is absolutely tonked once they finalize their case
There’s no evidence Paqueta bet.
His family almost certainly did.