The La Liga giants will be prevented from bringing in fresh faces during the upcoming January window, but will be free to add again from next summer.
This follows a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to reduce the sanction to just one period, corresponding to the January 2017 transfer window.
“he 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,” official statement read from real website.
However, the management was not happy with the decision to only and wished that the whole ban was scrapped off.
“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,” read the statement in part.