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Atletico Madrid accept January transfer ban

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Atletico Madrid accept January transfer ban
Atletico Madrid has accepted it will not sign players in January while it fights a FIFA transfer ban at sport’s highest court.
FIFA and Atletico jointly say in a statement they agreed a timetable for the Court of Arbitration for Sport to give a final ruling on the Spanish club’s appeal by next June.
Atletico could have sought to freeze its one-year ban pending the verdict but has ‘waived its right’ to try, the statement says.
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Subject to the appeal, the Madrid clubs have been blocked from registering new players until January 2018. The teams can make deals to sign players but cannot register them to play.
FIFA imposed one-year sanctions on Atletico and city rival Real Madrid for signing underage players in violation of transfer rules.
FIFA also upheld fines of £700,000 for Atletico and £280,000 for Madrid.
Barcelona served a similar sanction for 2015 after stalling the transfer ban to enable them to sign players in the 2014 window.

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