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Juventus could face another heavy points deduction over alleged false accounting by the club, according to a report from Corriere dello Sport.

The Turin club was deducted 15 points last month after being found guilty of inflating player transfer values to falsify their capital gains following the reopening of a trial into the use of the practice by Juventus and other Italian clubs.

Il Corriere dello Sport has claimed that Juve could also be hit with an additional

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