Barcelona’s Dani Olmo Suffers Fresh Registration Setback

Barcelona took their determined makes an attempt to register Dani Olmo to Spain’s High Council for Sports on Saturday after La Liga and the nationwide federation pushed their star playmaker nearer to a probably embarrassing departure. The way forward for Olmo and younger ahead Pau Victor on the Catalan giants has been on maintain over a monetary and administrative limbo that prevented their registration past 2024. Debt-laden Barcelona registered their star signing Olmo final summer season with out breaching La Liga’s finances guidelines after defender Andreas Christensen was injured in August.

The Blaugrana misplaced two court docket instances searching for an extension of the registrations to the top of the season and La Liga struck Olmo and Victor off the official squad listing on January 1.

Barcelona utilized for brand spanking new licences to the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) and Spanish media mentioned they’d offered VIP seats on the future Camp Nou to generate 100 million euros ($103 million) that may enhance their finances and facilitate the registrations.

La Liga has raised Barcelona’s squad finances cap after the membership met the monetary guidelines on Friday and despatched the related paperwork, the league and RFEF mentioned in a press release on Saturday.

But the joint fee dealing with Olmo and Victor’s purposes agreed to not grant the licences on account of RFEF guidelines which “stop a participant whose licence is cancelled from acquiring a licence in the identical workforce” throughout the identical season.

Barcelona mentioned in a press release that they’d attraction the choice on the High Council for Sports.

Club president Joan Laporta, who has confronted heavy criticism for his dealing with of the affair, has spoken with Olmo and Victor “to calm them”, the assertion added.

Olmo’s contract, initially set to run till 2030, features a clause that may launch him if he can’t be registered, in accordance with Spanish media.

Olmo and Victor have been absent from Barcelona coach Hansi Flick’s squad listing for the Copa del Rey tie at fourth-tier Barbastro on Saturday.

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