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- Updated: December 8, 2016
Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has been fined £250,000 and banned for 18 months for breaching Football Association rules on agents.
Cellino will be barred from acting as “a director or shadow director” of any football club from February 1 2017, although the Italian has already indicated he will appeal.
Leeds have also been fined £250,000, all punishments relating to Ross McCormack’s transfer to Fulham in July 2014.
A statement on the FA website read: “With effect from 1 February 2017, Mr Cellino has been suspended for 18 months from being a director or shadow director …