The Dani Olmo saga isn’t over at Barcelona.
January began with the Spanish giants unable to register a player they’d bought for £51million six months early as he didn’t fit under LaLiga’s salary cap.
Barca appealed to the Spanish Football Federation [RFEF] who backed LaLiga, opening the door for Olmo to leave for nothing rather than sit out the game for half a season.
Yet Barca president Joan Laporta whipped out a get-out-of-jail-free card by appealing to governmental sports agency the CSD [Consejo Superior de Deportes] who granted them a three-month extension to get their affairs in order.
That decision caused outrage across the country with eight of their LaLiga rivals putting out public statements complaining about a lack of fair play.
LaLiga president Javier Tebas was one of those left fuming, and has now revealed the league has lodged their own appeal with the CSD.
“We have requested a precautionary measure to have Olmo removed from the club’s register,” he said. “A precautionary measure that annuls the previous precautionary measure.
“Government intervention does not give us a good image. We have acted according to the rules of both fair play and how the federations dictate.
“It shows that the CSD does not understand how licenses are given. On December 31, Barça was told that they didn’t meet fair play.
“They tried to increase Olmo’s license and were told: you cannot increase it, you are not authorised to have a license.
“On January 3, they already met fair play, but then they cannot register Olmo because this player has already been deregistered on the 31st and cannot have a new license.”
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