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Real Madrid Transfer Ban Reduced to 1 Window After Partially Successful Appeal
- Updated: December 20, 2016
Real Madrid have confirmed the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has reduced their 2017 transfer ban to one window after a partially successful appeal, meaning the club will be permitted to sign players next summer.
Los Blancos confirmed the announcement on Tuesday via their official website, releasing a statement that detailed the CAS’s decision to hand the European champions a less severe punishment in relation to signing underage players:
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today informed Real Madrid C. F. of their decision by which they have partially upheld the appeal lodged by the club against the FIFA resolution which imposed a sanction forbidding the signing of players for two transfer windows, reducing said sanction to just one period, corresponding to the January 2017 transfer window. The decision highlights the injustice of the original ban imposed by FIFA, although the club regrets that the CAS lacked the courage to revoke the ruling entirely.
Real were initially suspended from registering any new players in 2017 after seeing their first appeal rejected by FIFA in September, per BBC Sport, but the CAS …
