At a shareholders meeting at the Allianz Stadium in Turin on Tuesday, Juventus president Andrea Agnelli confirmed that the club was in rude financial health, revealing an annual profit of €42 million.
In his address, he reserved particular praise for six players: Gigi Buffon, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, Claudio Marchisio and Leonardo Bonucci - the only ever-presents in the Bianconeri's unprecedented run of six consecutive Scudetti. It was an acknowledgement that after the Calciopoli-induced collapse, Juventus had been rebuilt on the most solid of foundations.
While Lichtsteiner and Marchisio had not always been regulars, goalkeeper Buffon and the three men in front of him - Barzagli, Bonucci and Chiellini, affectionately known as the BBC - had been constants in the most dominant era in Serie A history. It was they who had allowed the likes of Andrea Pirlo to go and play.
Now, though, Juve's greatest strength looks like their biggest weakness.