Juventus have appealed to Italy’s Court of Cassation in a bid to overturn a ruling ordering the club to pay former forward Cristiano Ronaldo €9.8 million in deferred wages. According to the club’s financial report for the 2025-26 season, the appeal was filed on March 27, 2026. However, a hearing date is yet to be announced. The dispute dates back to 2021, when Ronaldo left Juventus to rejoin Manchester United. It centres on a reported agreement during the COVID-19 pandemic under which the Italian club agreed to defer €19.5 million in wages. The arrangement came under scrutiny during investigations into Juventus’s finances and its pandemic-era wage agreements with players. Investigators reportedly uncovered a private document referred to as the “Ronaldo letter”. In April 2024, an arbitration panel ruled that Juventus must pay Ronaldo €9.8 million, plus interest and inflation-linked adjustments, representing approximately half of the amount he initially claimed. The panel found no evidence that the club had deliberately misled Ronaldo. It also noted that the Portuguese forward had not sought payment when he departed Italy in 2021. Juventus subsequently challenged the decision, but a labour court in Turin rejected the appeal in January 2026, upholding the arbitration ruling. The club has now taken the matter to Italy’s highest court in a further attempt to overturn the decision.