Diego Simeone has received an eight-match ban for his actions during the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup in which Atlético Madrid won 2-1 on aggregate.

Simeone was suspended for four games for tapping the back of the linesman’s head, two games for protesting, one game for applauding his sending-off, and one game for remaining in the stands instead of leaving the stadium after his sending-off.

The assistant coach, Germán Burgos, will take over from Simeone while he serves his suspension.

Simeone wanted to fight Raphael Varane toward the end of last season's Champions League Final.

Barcelona will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after Fifa confirmed it will not be able to sign any players in the next two transfer windows.

Fifa announced on Wednesday that it had rejected Barcelona’s appeal against the sanction imposed in April over breaches of rules around the transfer of under-18 players.

The two-window embargo was placed on hold after Barcelona appealed, but Fifa ruled the club will now be unable to register new players in the January and summer 2015 transfer windows.

Fifa said in a statement: “FC Barcelona is to serve a transfer ban which will see the club prevented from registering any players at both national and international level for two complete and consecutive transfer periods, starting with the next registration period (January 2015).”

The court of arbitration for sport (Cas) has upheld Luis Suárez’s ban and fine for biting the Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini, but he has been cleared to train with his Barcelona teammates.

Suárez remains ineligible to play in official matches during the four-month ban.

The earliest Suárez can play is October 26th.

Suárez has been banned three times for biting opponents.