Barcelona will seek a precautionary measure from the Ministry of Sports (CSD) on Tuesday to keep Dani Olmo and Pau Victor registered for the rest of the season. However, they will do this via the emergency route as they believe this gives them a better chance of securing that precautionary registration.
Olmo and Victor are currently free to sign for other clubs and, as things stand, cannot play for Barcelona for the rest of the season. La Liga and the RFEF had their license application rejected on Saturday, and it means the Catalan side will try to secure a suspension of that move, first through the CSD and then through the courts.
According to Sport, they will request an emergency suspension due to Olmo and Victor not being registered, instead of just a ban, which are both precautionary measures. The nuance between the two is that in the former the case will be dealt with urgently and the Blaugrana can expect a response from the court within a day or two. Besides the speed of the response, the advantage is that Barcelona will put forward their arguments, and because it is an urgent matter, La Liga and the RFEF lawyers will not be able to make a counter argument, as they did in the previous two times. court ruling at the end of December.
Whether Barcelona win the case is essentially redundant as they only need the precaution of keeping Olmo and Victor registered until the summer. The precautionary suspension of deregistration would be granted on the grounds that the players could suffer harm from the time it would take to resolve the case if it turned out in Barcelona's favor. That is why they should be allowed to play matches in the meantime.
Barcelona believe they have a chance of success, although they also admit that it is unusual for the CSD to contradict the RFEF in such cases. If Barcelona fail to have the matter suspended as a precautionary measure through the CSD, they will have to pursue the matter in court, but will call up Olmo and Victor for their Spanish Super Cup trip to Saudi Arabia in the hope that it will be granted.
Either way, the consequences have become a matter of state for Barcelona, as the saying goes. The opposition to President Joan Laporta has demanded his resignation, while it was revealed on Sunday that AC Milan had made a plan for Dani Olmo, who could see him leave for six months. Olmo and Victor have both expressed their desire to stay at the club, but whether they can play football is not up to Barcelona or themselves at this point.
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