Tuesday December 31. Limit for the registration of Dani Olmo. The hours go by and go, and Barcelona has not yet been able to close its registration, nor that of Pau Víctor. After failing to obtain the precautionary measure requested by Barça before the Commercial Court of Barcelona last Friday, yesterday they encountered another wall. The Court of First Instance 47 of Barcelona has rejected the Barça club’s claim in which it requested that the budget preparation regulations be annulled, considering that the Delegated Commission, which regulates it, does not have powers to do so, and that the power should fall on the Ordinary General Assembly of LaLiga. Barcelona requested, once again, a precautionary measure to extend the registrations of both players until June 30, 2025. Now, the Barça club will have to resort to other means to obtain the necessary income this Tuesday to avoid the catastrophe that could entail. the loss of the Terrassa player. To achieve this, the most advanced route is the sale of the VIP boxes of the future Spotify Camp Nou with investors from the Middle East, already planned as plan B and on which the president Joan Laporta has worked this weekend to close the agreement, which must definitively validate LaLiga. Once again, fighting against the clock.
But if registration is not possible in these last few hours, Dani Olmo could be free on January 1. The Egarense footballer arrived this summer as the only major signing – in addition to Pau Víctor, also only registered until December 31 – after an investment of nearly 60 million euros. After just four months, 15 games played and six goals, the footballer who represented that great investment that Joan Laporta proudly announced, would be given away.
The Barça club maintains the hope of reversing the situation in the next few hours. Barcelona maintains that when Ter Stegen was injured, the club was told that they could use the total of 80% of the German’s salary to regularize the situation of their squad, and thus register Olmo in addition to the signing of Wojciech Szczesny, but that now they They have denied the option claiming that only one player can occupy that space. After the Commercial Court agreed with the body chaired by Javier Tebas last Friday, the Barça club had another option, another lawsuit filed before the Court of First Instance in which they alleged that the Delegated Commission is not competent. to regulate budgeting regulations – financial fair play – nor the registration of footballers, and that, therefore, these regulations would be invalid.
After the negative ruling on Friday and the possibility of it being repeated this Monday, one day before the deadline, Barcelona anticipated the situation. This weekend, on his trip to the Middle East and while Lamine Yamal received the Globe Soccer Award for best emerging player on Friday in Dubai, Joan Laporta advanced negotiations for the sale of the VIP boxes for the next 20 years for around 100 million euros. This Sunday the Barça president returned from Dubai and, as reported by EFE, on Monday he met with Hansi Flick to inform the German coach about these avenues that the club was exploiting for the registrations of Olmo and Pau Víctor, and also the possibility of returning with this agreement to the 1:1 rule and regulate your situation with the salary limit. But the sale of VIP boxes also runs a risk: obtaining less income than could be achieved by having a little more room to negotiate. Mortgaging the future to help the present in another new lever. It will be necessary for LaLiga to give definitive approval to the agreement, and thus obtain the fair play financial enough to register the two footballers.
There is also the option of resorting to an endorsement by some of the directors of the Board of Directors of FC Barcelona, something that has been done previously, but which in this case would be higher than what was needed in the past. as for example in the case of Jules Koundé, with a guarantee of 11 million euros. Meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking, with Barcelona working before midnight on Tuesday arrives, the bells ring and Pau Víctor and Dani Olmo can continue registered as Barça footballers.
