'I found out many years later': Canales reveals Deportivo owned 50 per cent of contract prior Real Madrid move

It took former Madrid flop, Sergio Canales, five years to find out that Deportivo La Coruna owned 50 per cent his rights.

"I find out once I was going to Real Madrid. I finished my contract at Racing Santander and I didn't want to go for free," he was quoted as saying by El Desmarque.

"Madrid paid a small transfer fee. That's when I found out that Deportivo had owned half of my contract since I was 13 or 14 years old, as part of the transfer of Munitis, Antonio Tomas, Aouate...

"I had no idea about all that. It was something between the clubs and I found out many years later."