http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2401_en.htm
The money they have to pay back is probably peanuts, but still a good sign that state aid in football will be punished from now on.
It's a pretty disgraceful practice.
The Madrid training ground deal was dodgy as fuck.
A settlement on a transfer of land from the City of Madrid to Real Madrid agreed in 1998. Eventually, the transfer did not take place. The settlement to compensate for the absence of the transfer was based on a re-evaluation of that land at a value of €22.7 million, instead of the 1998 value of €595 000
Some inflation.
Rumour has it that Ronaldo had taken a stroll on that land, thereby exponentially increasing its value.
Or decreasing it based on his last 7 months of football.
