Serie A club Juventus and former striker Cristiano Ronaldo are embroiled in an ongoing legal dispute over unpaid wages. Two rulings have favored Ronaldo, awarding him €9.8 million plus interest and revaluation. However, Juventus has appealed these decisions, awaiting a new hearing date. The case originates from the Covid era when Juventus allegedly agreed with players to fictitiously forgo monthly salaries to manage the pandemic's financial impact. A document known as the "Ronaldo card" from 2021 outlined a deferred payment of €19.5 million gross salary to Ronaldo, which was never recorded in the club's financial statements. Wiretaps from the Prisma investigation revealed this written agreement theoretically shouldn't exist. Ronaldo sued Juventus in 2023, and while the document was found, it lacked his signatures, leading to arbitration. This affair also contributed to the resignation of Juventus president Andrea Agnelli and the former board of directors.