La Liga Champions Athletico Madrid along with their bitter city rivals Real Madrid
have denied to join Barcelona in attaining a transfer ban from
FIFA for breaking transfer rules.
Rumours
surfaced early in the week saying FIFA are set to hand out transfer bans to the
two Madrid clubs for not signing players under 18 properly.
The
world governing body requires that both parents of a player should be present
when a contract is signed with a club.
Barcelona
were found guilty of breaching this rule and currently cannot sign any players
until 2016 and the same punishment could be distributed again.
Real Madrid released a statement on their website renouncing the rumours as they
said, ‘Real Madrid is once again saddened by these reports, some of which are
intended to cause harm, the only aim of which are to implicate the club in
supposed infractions that have not been committed.’
Athletico
Madrid also released a statement echoing Real Madrid’s in denying any wrong
doing.
FIFA
have also had their say in the matter. ‘We are not in a position to comment on
any proceedings that are ongoing.’
It
is thought that Real Madrid are aware they are facing the possibility of being
banned from signing players and have been doing their business early.
In
the January window a deal was struck to sign Danilo from Porto and will join
the club in the summer.
Madrid
also made the signing of Marco Asensio in January but again Asensio will not
join the club until the summer.
So if a ban was to be imposed both players would still join the Champions League holders as the transfer fee has already been paid.
Colomunist: Arif Ahmed
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