Dani Olmo’s future at Barcelona was plunged into uncertainty on Tuesday as La Liga poured chilly water on the financially troubled Catalan giants’ frantic makes an attempt to register the Spain star. La Liga’s strict spending limits restricted Olmo’s preliminary registration to December 31, 2024 after Barcelona made the playmaker their flagship signing final summer time. The membership was left scrambling for alternate options to get Olmo on the books earlier than the clock struck midnight in Spain, having exhausted authorized avenues to increase the registration to June 30, 2025.
Barcelona mentioned on Tuesday that they’d requested a brand new license from the Spanish soccer federation for Olmo and ahead Pau Victor, who additionally faces the identical registration predicament.
Spanish media reported that the transfer would purchase Barcelona valuable time to finish the executive formalities.
“The membership needs to disclaim that it has requested for or acquired any extension from some other group for the registration being requested,” it added in an announcement.
La Liga launched an announcement shortly afterwards saying that as of Tuesday “Barcelona has offered no various” complying with the league’s funds guidelines “that permits it to register any participant from January 2”.
Barcelona had paperwork submitted to La Liga exhibiting it might generate 100 million euros ($103 million) to finance Olmo’s registration by promoting VIP seats at its future expanded Camp Nou stadium, however the paperwork was advancing slowly, Spanish media mentioned.
A Barcelona court docket had rejected a request to increase the registration on Monday, after a industrial court docket within the Catalan capital made the identical determination final week.
The closely indebted membership registered Olmo with 80 % of injured defender Andreas Christensen’s pay because of an exception in La Liga’s funds guidelines permitting golf equipment to exchange long-term absentees.
The industrial court docket argued that overspending was licensed to stop a long-term harm undermining a crew’s competitiveness however to not register gamers whose wages exceeded the wage restrict.
Olmo’s contract, initially set to run till 2030, features a clause that may launch him if he couldn’t be registered, in line with Spanish media.
The Spain playmaker’s potential departure attributable to an administrative imbroglio could be a dangerous and embarrassing blow to the third-placed Blaugrana’s title bid.
The 26-year-old has notched 5 objectives in La Liga this season and starred as Spain clinched Euro 2024 glory in Germany.
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