After signing Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig in the summertime switch window, FC Barcelona needed to wait till the third La Liga sport of the season at hand him his debut as his registration with the league was not finished in time as a result of monetary points.
Ultimately, Barça made use of Andreas Christensen’s long-term harm to get their marquee new signing registered, though it might solely be legitimate till the top of December.
As such, Barcelona should re-register Olmo in January and up till now, there was confidence that there would no issues in getting it finished.
Considerations rising
Nonetheless, now, in response to SPORT, Barcelona’s technical secretariat is more and more anxious because the January switch window approaches, having but to discover a viable answer for registering Dani Olmo with La Liga.
The state of affairs stems from final summer time when each Olmo and fellow new signing Pau Victor have been registered till thirty first December.
Together with the pair, Christensen, who’s now near full restoration, was promised January registration primarily based on the membership’s anticipated decision of their Monetary Honest Play constraints.
Nonetheless, the financial outlook is much less promising than initially projected.
Olmo must be registered once more in January. (Picture by David Ramos/Getty Photographs)
Monetary Hurdles
Certainly, Barcelona are usually not within the place that they desired to be within the monetary side, with two key developments inflicting explicit concern.
The anticipated new Nike contract, supposed to offer an answer, now seems unlikely to be finalised till at the very least January, suspending an important earnings stream wanted to unlock the registration state of affairs.
Barcelona had additionally counted on resolving the Libero state of affairs by discovering a brand new investor to cowl the €60 million cost however the membership don’t anticipate to beat the problem within the speedy future.
This has positioned the technical secretariat in a troublesome place relating to their commitments to each Olmo and Christensen. Present calculations counsel just one participant will be registered, not each.
Whereas the gamers preserve religion within the membership’s assurances and consider there’s nonetheless time to discover a answer, their confidence contrasts sharply with the rising anxiousness throughout the membership’s technical division.