Florentino Perez says Denis Cheryshev’s ban from the Copa del Rey should not have been valid as neither the player nor club was notified.
Cheryshev’s inclusion in Los Blancos’ match against Segunda B side Cadiz has made the headlines in recent days after it emerged he should not have been playing. He had picked up three yellow cards in last season’s competition while on loan at Villarreal and had not served a one-match ban by the time he featured for Real on Wednesday.
His inclusion in the side could see Los Blancos thrown out of the competition.
Speaking to the media on Thurday, club president Perez insisted that because the player or Real had not been notified, the ban is not valid and therefore did not need to be served.
“In relation to Real Madrid’s fielding of the player Denis Cheryshev in the Copa del Rey match against Cádiz yesterday, and after analysing the events in today’s meeting of the Board of Directors, we wish to state that the one-match ban for accumulating three yellow cards in the Copa del Rey tournament last season, when the player was representing Villarreal, should in our view not take effect, because nobody notified the player of the ban, as is clearly stipulated in article 41 section two of the Spanish Football Federation’s Disciplinary Code, which states: … punitive resolutions will not take effect until the parties concerned have been personally notified,” he said.
And he added: “It’s an essential, basic principle of all punitive law that that the punishment does not take effect, and it is as if it did not exist, until the party receiving the punishment is notified.
“As the player Cheryshev states, nobody notified him of the ban, and for that reason it should not take effect. Real Madrid were not aware of its existence, nobody notified the club of its existence, neither the player nor Villarreal nor the RFEF.”
