Barcelona suffered a setback on Friday after it emerged that the choose of Industrial Court docket No. 10 had determined to disclaim the precautionary measure that may have allowed Pau Victor and Dani Olmo to be registered in La Liga.
This judicial resolution forces the Catalan giants to discover various routes to make sure each gamers can take part within the second half of the season.
Cash for the 1:1 rule and the deadlines for registration
Based on SPORT, Barcelona are awaiting the end result of a brand new authorized motion that was filed in parallel in a First Occasion Court docket in an try to safe the injunction.
The following step for the membership might be attending the listening to on the First Occasion Court docket in Barcelona on Monday, December 30. Nonetheless, it stays unclear when the choose’s resolution might be introduced.
Time is now of the essence, because the federative contracts of each gamers expire on December 31, and La Liga is not going to allow them to be re-registered through the winter switch window except Barcelona renew their contracts earlier than the 12 months ends.
Barça in a race towards time to register Olmo. (Photograph by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
As such, Barcelona at the moment are engaged in a race towards time. An alternative choice for registering the gamers could be to adjust to the 1:1 rule, which might enable the membership to function with better flexibility.
As beforehand reported, following their settlement with Nike, the Blaugrana nonetheless want an extra €60 million euros to fulfill the required situations for the rule.
The best approach to elevate this quantity could be by utilizing the ‘lever’ of promoting VIP seats on the Spotify Camp Nou.
With a deal already within the works with a Qatari firm for the advertising of those seats over the following 20 years, Barcelona may generate round €120 million, which might be greater than sufficient to register Olmo and Pau Victor.
One other viable choice for the membership is to depend on private ensures from the board of administrators, a method beforehand used for the registration of Jules Kounde in 2022 and Joao Felix and Joao Cancelo in 2023.
All in all, Barcelona wouldn’t have lots of time and are working out of choices as properly and thus must act swiftly if they’re to make sure that Olmo and Victor can proceed enjoying within the second half of the season.