Dani Olmo and Pau Victor have each been granted non permanent enjoying registrations by the Spanish authorities regardless of repeated rejections from the Spanish FA and La Liga in latest weeks.
Spain’s Council for Sports activities, the Consejo Superior de Deportes [CSD], dominated on Wednesday that the 2 gamers must be made accessible for choice till there’s a definitive ruling within the case.
Olmo and Victor had been each unregistered by La Liga on 31 December after Barcelona missed the deadline to show they had been compliant with the league’s monetary truthful play guidelines.
The membership’s makes an attempt to re-register the gamers had been rejected by the Spanish FA (RFEF) and La Liga, ensuing within the Catalan membership submitting a 52-page attraction and greater than 60 accompanying paperwork to the CSD, the very best sports activities council throughout the Spanish authorities.
Olmo had a clause in his contract that may allow him to go away on a free switch if was not registered, however each he and Victor have remained dedicated to staying on the membership.
🚨🚨 OFFICIAL: The CSD court docket has granted precautionary measure to Barcelona for Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
Each gamers will probably be accessible for the Supercopa already from tonight. ✅ pic.twitter.com/MXzhPZsFiP
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 8, 2025
La Liga guidelines stipulate a participant can’t be registered twice in the identical season, nevertheless, Wednesday’s ruling means the pair can – for now at the very least – characteristic once more for Barcelona in all competitions this time period.
In an announcement, the CSD granted Barcelona’s “pressing precautionary measure requested by FC Barcelona and by the gamers Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
“This measure, which is provisional till the attraction filed by the membership and the aforementioned gamers is definitively resolved, suspends the Settlement of the Monitoring Committee of the RFEF-LaLiga Coordination Settlement, dated January 4, 2025, and the cancellation of the sports activities licenses of the aforementioned gamers.”
The information got here shortly earlier than Barcelona’s Spanish Tremendous Cup semi-final in opposition to Athletic Membership, however neither participant has been named within the squad for tonight’s sport.
Supervisor Hansi Flick stated earlier than the sport: “I’m actually proud of it [the ruling]. I feel the entire staff, Dani and Pau after all, are very happy. And likewise everybody on the membership.
“It’s the appropriate determination.”
Hansi Flick feedback on the CSD’s determination to grant a precautionary measure for the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor. pic.twitter.com/aHwzaZCC8A
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) January 8, 2025
Barcelona sporting director Deco echoed Flick’s sentiment: “I’m pleased for the gamers. We have now gone via very troublesome days, and the gamers wish to play.
“However we’re so proud of the result and that the CSD has proved we had been proper, which is the essential factor.”
Nonetheless, Jon Uriarte, president of Barcelona’s semi-final opponents, Athletic Membership, stated of the result that “we’re seeing issues that are ridiculous,” including, “circumstances like this don’t do any favours to Spanish soccer.”
