Barcelona president Joan Laporta has some important questions to answer after Dani Olmo and Pau Victor pulled out after the midnight La Liga deadline. Neither player can play the rest of the season again, barring any surprise twists.
La Liga rules stipulate that players cannot be registered by the same club twice in the same season, and after originally registering both players via an emergency injury ruling in August, they had until January to resolve their salary cap issues. Barcelona signed a new sponsorship deal with Nike, but was then unable to register Olmo and Victor and sold part of the commercial rights to their VIP boxes at Camp Nou for €100 million for the next twenty years.
It had been leaked to the media that Barcelona had sent documents over the previous two days, but La Liga released a statement three hours before the deadline explaining that Barcelona had not submitted any new information relevant to their registration. The Blaugrana had previously issued a statement saying they had applied for a new license from the Spanish Football Federation, but it remains to be seen whether it will be granted.
Victor is going to leave on loan, while Olmo's situation is unclear. Agent Andy Bara has stated that his client will remain at Barcelona because he wants to play for his boyhood club, but he does have a clause in his contract that allows him to leave for free if he wants, with the full sum of his six-year contract. contract in his pocket. No doubt many of Europe's elite will try to convince him to implement this clause.
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