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 season.
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 that they had requested a brand new licence 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 treasured time to finish the executive formalities.
“The membership needs to disclaim that it has requested for or acquired any extension from some other organisation for the registration being requested,” it added in a press release.
La Liga launched a press release shortly afterwards saying that as of Tuesday “Barcelona has offered no different” complying with the league’s finances guidelines “that enables it to register any participant from January 2”.
Barcelona had submitted paperwork to La Liga displaying 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 courtroom had rejected a request to increase the registration on Monday, after a business courtroom within the Catalan capital made the identical resolution final week.
The closely indebted membership registered Olmo with 80 p.c of injured defender Andreas Christensen’s pay because of an exception in La Liga’s finances guidelines permitting golf equipment to exchange long-term absentees.
The business courtroom argued that overspending was authorised to forestall a long-term damage 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 might launch him if he couldn’t be registered, based on Spanish media.
The Spain playmaker’s potential departure resulting from an administrative imbroglio can 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.