Barcelona: court rejects Dani Olmo’s registration in LaLiga
Barcelona did not obtain the precautionary measure to register Dani Olmo until the end of the course and will present a lawsuit on Monday
BARCELONA — Judge Ignacio Fernández Senespleda rejection this friday demand presented by the Barcelona to be able precautionary registration of Dani Olmo in LaLiga until the end of the season.
Dani Olmotogether with Pau Víctor (in the same situation), is registered only until December 31 and, for the moment, you cannot take part in the League starting January 1st.
Barcelona received the Judge’s order with “disappointment,” an authorized club source revealed to AM850, and next Monday, December 30, it will present a new lawsuit against LaLiga in a Court of First Instance in Barcelona requesting this precautionary measure under the argument that the LaLiga Delegated Commission is not competent in registrations, in addition to the fact that the registration rule is invalid after having been changed and the application was not accepted with the proportional part of Marc-André ter’s salary Stegen.
Even understanding that the trial was not under the same conditions as the Gavi case, which was ruled in favor of Barça, there was confidence in the Spotify Camp Nou offices that their arguments would be addressed because they considered that they were perfectly explained and addressed all issues. reason.
Olmo, who could not play the first two days of the league championship, was registered thanks to Andreas Christensen’s long-term injury, only until December 31 and making use of Article 77 to use 80 percent of the Dane’s salary to Elm. When Ter Stegen was injured, the registration of Wojciech Szczesny was carried out with the German goalkeeper out, but the possibility of sharing him with Olmo was rejected even then.
LAST OPTION
Barcelona expects to receive the court’s approval of the precautionary measure until Monday to be able to immediately register Dani Olmo… Or force a ‘Plan C’, a new lever in the form of the sale of the exploitation of several VIP boxes of the new Spotify Camp Nou for the next few years, as AM850 already reported, or the presentation of a personal endorsement by one, or some, members of Joan Laporta’s board of directors.
The use of the guarantee would not be new to achieve last-minute registration. Laporta already used it in the summer of 2022 to register Jules Koundé at the last minute and, again, in August 2023 to register João Cancelo and João Félix.
Barça does not want, at the moment, to “advance” what will be decided in the event that the court denies registration again, but they are working on both cases.
In the case of the guarantee, the name of Sisco Pujol, incorporated just a week ago to the Board of Directors as a new member, would be in the foreground, remembering that he was already, externally, key in obtaining the financial guarantee of 124 million euros which allowed Joan Laporta to become president of Barça after winning the 2021 elections.
OFFICIAL REACTION
LaLiga, upon learning of the ruling, issued a statement in which it highlighted the logic of rejecting Barça’s demand since “none of the budgets necessary for the adoption of the precautionary measure are met.”
The employer’s statement is as follows:
– The order defends the full conformity in law of the denial of the registration of a player based on the application of article 77 of the LALIGA Budget Preparation Rules (NEP), by which, in the event of a long-term injury of a player, the Clubs can replace him with another player: “LALIGA has made a reasoned interpretation of article 77 of the NEP and, what is more important, it is the same interpretation that it has made with all the other teams of the same competition. Even the same interpretation that was applied in the month of July 2024 to FC Barcelona in the case of Araújo and Iñigo Martínez.” And he adds: “Thus, LALIGA has established budget balance rules implementing the competence that the law confers on it.” Likewise, the order highlights that: “The purpose of authorizing excess spending is so that a long-term absence does not undermine the team’s competition, not so that the long-term absence allows for the registration of players who, with their salary , they exceed the limit, which is what FC Barcelona intends.”
– LALIGA, and as the order itself also recognizes, emphasizes that said decision not to register Dani Olmo had already been adopted by the LALIGA Budget Validation Body, and was subsequently confirmed up to three times: both by the Control Committee Economic and Social Resources Committee of LALIGA, as well as by the Second Instance UEFA License Committee of the RFEF.
It is for all these reasons that LALIGA celebrates that, when faced with the request for precautionary measures of this nature, there is no exception to the application of a precept of the NEP that has been applied to date in the same way to all Clubs, thus potentially altering serious the equality of conditions of the competition rules.
Principle that has governed LALIGA’s actions at all times, when the Sports Law itself has stressed that Economic Control has “been truly useful to guarantee the viability and integrity of competitions”, and when in the past the courts have endorsed these mechanisms explicitly. Clear examples of this being that the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court endorsed the NEP, or the denial of registration of players (such as the case of Pedro León, in which the Provincial Court of Madrid revoked the precautionary measure initially granted by the Commercial Courts). in relation to the granting of the player’s prior visa, considering that “the budgetary balance rules that limit the cost of the registerable squad respond to a legitimate objective such as fighting against excessive indebtedness of clubs and SAD” and “tend to promote the sustainability of professional football”).
