Principle of. The future of the players in Barcelona is still up in the air, deleted from the squad by LaLiga after the deadline for the Barça entity to regularize their status expired on December 31. fair-play financial before the employers. However, at Barcelona they claim to have a saving grace: after sending the institution chaired by Javier Tebas proof that they had received the advance of 28 million euros, corresponding to the sale of VIP seats at the new Camp Nou sold for 100 million, the club returned to the 1×1 rule, that is, to normality to register players against LaLiga.
“Barça is thus no longer intervened with a rule that enables the Barça entity to enter the winter transfer market with full normality. The Barcelona club remembers that recovering the 1:1 rule was an essential condition for the registration of Olmo and Pau Víctor, something that was requested on December 30,” the entity said at midnight this Friday. First because LaLiga has not yet made a statement; but secondly, and substantially more important, because in the event that the employers endorse the documentation sent by Barça, the Federation cannot issue a second license to a footballer to play for the same club during the same season. Olmo and Víctor, in this case, rules in hand, could not continue at Barça no matter how much the Barça entity has resolved its economic hieroglyphics before the employers. “If LaLiga approves the visa, the jurists will be there to make their interpretations. The reality is that Barça did not want to ask for two licenses, but they also had time to resolve it,” the Federation emphasizes. And they conclude: “Tonight Barcelona sent an informative email updating the situation to LaLiga and the RFEF, but the latter still does not contain any request for license processing by LaLiga regarding the footballers in accordance with the established channels.”
is receptive to resolving the Olmo case – “An important footballer for Spain”, according to what they say in Las Rozas –, the new boss of the Federation is presented with a dilemma: the rest of the clubs. “Let’s hope that the rules are the same for everyone,” Simeone, coach of Atlético de Madrid, remarked this Friday.
“If I’m honest,” the Barça coach, Hansi Flick, had announced the same Friday, a few hours before; “I am not happy with the situation. The players are not.” It was not an easy moment for the German coach to deal with: he was the first person from the club to appear publicly after the grotesque crisis over Dani Olmo’s registration. After listening to the explanations of president Joan Laporta and after the communications area ruled out the appearance or any type of explanation from another person in charge of the Catalan entity, Flick came forward. I wasn’t comfortable, much less at ease. “It’s not my job to talk about this. My job is to reset the equipment. Dani and Pau are optimistic, they want to play for the club,” concluded the coach, before Barcelona visits Barbastro this Saturday in the Copa del Rey round of 32 match (at 7:00 p.m., on Movistar).
Although incredulous in the face of the prevailing uncertainty, Dani Olmo has always been optimistic. He did it from day one. An optimism that, at the time, for example, was not shown by the different levels of the club. “We do not advise the signing of Dani Olmo. We are exceeded fair-play. You will not be able to register,” the finance area warned the sports area last summer, when Laporta insisted that he wanted a bombastic operation for Barça. The sports area, then, found itself in a dilemma, the same as always in recent years in the Camp Nou offices: listen to the prudence of the executives or the recklessness of the directors. Boldness prevailed over good sense and Dani Olmo arrived at Barça in exchange for 48 million, plus variables and with a six-season contract.
Olmo soon discovered that the club executives were right. Something, however, that he already knew firsthand, although his will was above his judgment. While Barcelona negotiated with RB Leipzig, the footballer was concentrated with Barça players, few of whom were as informed by the board’s improvisations as Iñigo Martínez, signed for two seasons, but registered one at a time, a strange exception in the League. Once in Barcelona, the day Dani Olmo shows up with his entire entourage at the offices to celebrate the signing of the contract and pose with the number 20, the club tells him that he will not be able to register his entire contract. Between excited to return home and confused by the entity’s proposal, Olmo accepts the proposal that he sign up for only one year of contract in exchange for obtaining the letter of freedom and collecting the entire contract in case he is not completed the registration.
A few days later, after missing the first two games of the League because his situation was not resolved, Olmo received a new setback: “We will only be able to register you until December.” He had no choice but to accept. The footballer tried to erase the uncertainty from his head. And for a few months he succeeded. In December, however, when the club had not yet regularized the fair-play with LaLiga, Olmo knocked twice on the office doors. In both cases, same message: “We are going to do it.” But the footballer returned from vacation and nothing had been resolved.
It was not even resolved after the December 31 deadline. Dani Olmo, no longer calm, maintained the same hope: “I want to stay at Barça,” he said in the locker room. And, again, he went to ask the club for explanations: “We will receive the money from the boxes and we will register you.” Olmo, now devoid of peace of mind, had no choice but to trust Barça. And so he did. Now, more than five months after his signing, it seems that his registration will be complete. However, official confirmation from LaLiga that Barcelona returned to the 1×1 rule is missing, but, above all, the license from the Federation is missing.
