CHINÉ INDAGA SULLA FRASE "MA ALLORA SEI UNO DI LORO"? Cosa vuol dire?

According to the published text of the interrogation, two exact passages of the conversations between Andrea Butti and Gianluca Rocchi are reported in the documents. The first dates back to April 6, 2025, when Butti tells Rocchi over the phone: "Just don't send Doveri to Inter again. He's a total jinx, we never win anything with him." The second exchange occurs about a fortnight later (around April 21, 2025), again over the phone, with Butti addressing Rocchi and saying: "You're a killer, no, okay, but then you really are one of them! It's your fault, you know that? We have a really bad record with him." This is why Inter is legally innocent of Butti's conduct: 1. Absence of formal ties (membership) For a football club to be held accountable for the actions or words of a manager (through direct or objective liability), that manager must be a registered member or formal employee of the club at the time the events occurred. In the spring of 2025 (the time of the wiretaps), Andrea Butti was effectively a manager of the Lega Serie A. The fact that he worked for Inter in the past is irrelevant: only the role held at the time of the phone calls matters. Inter has no power of control, mandate, or oversight over an employee of a third-party body such as the Lega. 2. Who is responsible? If the FIGC's Federal Prosecutor's Office were to find a violation of Article 4 (loyalty and fairness) in Butti's words, the responsibility would remain strictly personal (on the manager himself) or, at most, it could theoretically be reflected on the Lega Serie A as an institution, but never on a single member club. Why then is this being discussed in the media or among fans? The controversy is not legal, but media and political in nature: The misunderstanding of the past: Many opposing fans or superficial commentators exploit the fact that Butti has a past at Inter to support a narrative of "closeness" or an alleged "conflict of interest." The instrumental use of wiretaps: Among rival fan bases (particularly Juventus), these phone calls are used in public debate to counterbalance past investigations in the media, attempting to demonstrate that "everyone spoke to the referee designators." In conclusion, the allegations that suggest sanctions, penalties, or wrongdoing against Inter for Butti's phone calls are without legal basis. The Nerazzurri club cannot be held accountable for the conversations of a Lega Calcio official, especially since the referee, Rocchi, himself, dismissed those comments before prosecutors as mere superstitious outbursts from a "fan." Giuseppe Chinè, as head of the FIGC Federal Prosecutor's Office, has full authority to open an investigation (or, more likely, has already done so by opening a "Model 45" fact-finding file) to analyze the content of those wiretaps, including the phrase "you really are one of them." However, it is necessary to understand what the Federal Prosecutor's Office would investigate and what the actual disciplinary implications are for that specific phrase. Here's how sports justice operates in these cases and why that phrase carries media weight, but is unlikely to constitute an offense: 1. Chinè's task: decoding the context When the Federal Prosecutor's Office acquires documents from a Public Prosecutor's Office (in this case, Milan), its task is to verify whether there are violations of the Sports Justice Code. Faced with an ambiguous expression like "you really are one of them," Chinè and his deputies must contextualize it by combining three elements: The overall tone of the phone call: Wiretaps aren't just read as text, they're listened to. If the tone is clearly ironic, joking, or completely confidential, the expression almost completely loses its legal value. The concrete facts (verification): Sports justice seeks the facts. After that phone call, did Rocchi really change the designation to go along with Butti? The data says no. If the designations followed technical criteria and there was no favoritism, the phrase remains an unfortunate joke. 2. What Butti risks (and what Inter does NOT) Even if Chinè were to decide that that statement and behavior violate the duties of loyalty, fairness, and integrity (Article 4): For Butti: Since he is a Serie A League official, any sanction would be personal (a warning, a fine, or a temporary suspension). 3. The "widespread practice" cited by Rocchi There is another element that Chinè must evaluate: in the same testimony, Rocchi explained to the prosecutors that receiving feedback or venting about referees' preferences "is a widespread practice" and that he even believes it is right to "listen to the clubs to improve the service."