Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have lost appeals against Fifa bans on signing players in the next two transfer windows.

Fifa's investigation concerned players aged under 18 who played in competitions for Atletico between 2007 and 2014, and Real from 2005-2014.

Both clubs are to serve a transfer ban that prevents them from registering any players at national and international level for the next two complete and consecutive registration periods

The next two transfer windows are in January 2017 and the summer of the same year. It means the clubs will not be able to register new players until 2018. Atletico were fined 900,000 Swiss francs (£622,000), while Real were told to pay 360,000 (£249,000).

Expected and deserved. Barca's own ban was just a year ahead.

Says a lot about how the top Spanish teams conduct business though, that all three were accused, convicted, and banned of the same offence. That's not any one club's problem, that's a Spanish football culture problem.

Well that really sux for them, but i'm happy bcuz costa can stay one more year with us :D

Heheheheheheheheheh!

i'm happy because de gea and hazard cant go to real madrid. Players going ro atletico madrid is no problem we can sign from them but not real.

It's good for Real. We can have some stability in the squad and the youngsters can really get integrated into the first-team.

@Dynastian

While I don't disagree with that whatsoever, I still think it's very odd that Real did not load up depth in the summer window like their Madrid neighbors and Barcelona did when faced with the same ban.

Maybe Real is preparing to save money in upcoming 2 transfers to the biggest transfer of our lifetime?

@Quikzyyy

It's genuinely difficult to improve upon our current starting XI. If you bought another world-class player, you'd have to change the entire system. The only player who could actually break into our starting XI and improve it instantly without breaking the system would be Suarez.

lol the ban wouldn't do anything. it would get lifted

@Dynastian Lewandowski maybe? But considering his age, the price wouldn't be that high.

I think it's well deserved. I'm happy now that De Gea's going nowhere.

@Dynastian To be sincere, you already didn't change much since last season with this so I don't see how you could consider this transfer window something that could offset the current stability of the squad. Anyway, I hope you find sucess at a domestic level this year. My only worry is that James or Isco push for an exit and that the squad become too thin, propably won't happen though. ;)

Good

@saatvik but what if ter stegen flops this season...

@liomessi10 Well, thats why you have buyed Cilessen, right? :P I don't think De Gea would join Barcelona though, wouldn't that ruin his chance to one day join Real Madrid?

^barcelona is just as good if not better. cillessen is not really starting material for barcelona

@liomessi10 Its not alway a question of better quality in the team, David was born in madrid, he has more affinity with Real in my opinion as he is seen as the replacement of Iker Cassillas in the Spain national team in the future. Doesn't mean its impossible for him to join Barcelona, I just think it would take a lot to bring him there.

@Emobot Yeah, his family lives in Madrid, he was born there and he was pretty close to joining them a couple seasons ago. Don't think he'll join Barca. But in today's market, who knows..?