DESCHAMPS INVOLVED IN DRUGS PROBE
The results of an investigation into various alleged doping offences against the Turin club will be released this week and could see Deschamps, who has been linked with a return to Italy with Inter Milan, called to give evidence at any subsequent trial later this year.
It is reported that Deschamps was tested with an abnormally high 51.2% level of EPO, which is a natural hormone that prevents fatigue but only normally occurs at between 45 and 47%.
Although - in exceptional cases - it can be normal to have such a high reading, Deschamps could either have taken a further drug to enhance his level and help to combat tiredness during his spell at the club during 1994 and 1998, or it could naturally have occurred through excessive exercise or training at altitude.
The investigation came after former Roma coach Zdenek Zemen claimed that The Old Lady were using illegal drugs and accused Deschamps current Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli and Alessandro del Piero of having unnatural muscle growth.
Five of the nineteen drugs found in the Juve medical room contained banned substances, but club officials say that none were given to players, as well as denying that they misused anti-depressants, painkillers and creatine.
Vialli could find himself alongside his Stamford Bridge colleague Deschamps in the witness stand at any subsequent trial should local magistrate Raffaele Guariniello order a trial when he reveals that results of his judicial inquiry.
Vialli, meanwhile, has become the latest manager to be linked with a move for Tottenham midfielder David Ginola, who is expected to leave the London club and has already been linked with Aston Villa and Fulham.
