I would assume that he could be refused a license to run a team if the authorities so chose.
It was more this comment:
Reports suggest that Saiz has the support of Cantabria’s minister of sport and tourism, Javier López Arcano, as well as some of his former backers from his ONCE days.
So a local government minister and unnamed others. So we are talking about the support from the state here - not just a local business man, or even the Spanish Fed.
Now, of course it could all be BS from Saiz - he seems to have been announcing an imminent comeback since 2006.
I just wonder what the reaction in France (and Europe) would be if Roussel were to announce his return to cycling, if the Sport and Tourism minister in Brittany were to be declared to be backing him along with his former Festina supporters. I suspect there would be much more condemnation of him.
My point is that the three Spanish stories today are:
Valverde training with Movistar (which is against UCI rules)
Saiz announces a comeback
Contador ban to be overturned
Two dopers on the comeback and one about to be acquitted.
And Ricco gets through under the bus and Frodo hopes he gets raped...