"For me, everything was in order," Ancelotti, who was offered a net salary of £5.1m by Real Madrid at the time where he left the structure to his financial advisors, told the Provincial Court of Madrid back in April during his trial. “I thought it was quite normal because at that time all the players and the previous coach had [done the same].

Ancelotti, one of the most successful managers in football history, given a one-year suspended sentence and large fine.

A Spanish court on Wednesday sentenced Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti to a one-year prison term for tax fraud when he was Real Madrid manager in 2014. The Madrid court also fined Ancelotti €386,000 ($452,