Barça threatens problems again
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The Spanish football league continues to fight the controversial game permit for European champions Dani Olmo from FC Barcelona. League boss Javier Tebas revealed in the interview of the “El País” newspaper that he had applied for an injunction to the Supreme Sports Court of the State (CSD) to cancel the first injunction with which the CSD on January 8th has a preliminary game authorization for the 26 -had grown for his Spanish compatriot Pau Víctor.
The CSD gave a preliminary license to avert potential severe damage to the association and the players concerned. The two professionals can therefore play for coach Hansi Flick to a final judgment that can also take months. Before the CSD’s decision, both the professional league and the Spanish Association RFEF refused to play the game license. The CSD will listen to the arguments of Laliga and the Association regarding the refusal.
Meanwhile, Tebas regrets the negative influence of the “Fall Olmo” on the reputation of Spanish football. “The state intervention does not leave a good impression,” he said. Tebas emphasized that the league had the rules of the RFEF and that of the license refusal
Fair Play taken into account. The quarrels around Olmo and Víctor brought unrest to the club and also left their mark on their mark: of the last five league games, the Catalans were only able to win against the stumbling FC Valencia and slipped to the 3rd place in the Laliga table. The gap to Real Madrid (49 points) and Atlético (48) points is seven or six points less in one game.
Barça’s way out: Sale of VIP lodges brought solution
The back and forth around Olmo has to do with Barça’s financial difficulties. The highly indebted club was initially unable to present a solution to meet the conditions for registration. The breakthrough finally came through the sale of VIP lodges in the modernized stadium Camp Nou, although the team does not play there yet. An Arab investment fund is said to have paid 100 million euros. According to the association and league, Barcelona was only able to show this sum after the deadline.
If the game permit is finally refused, a free transfer from Olmo, which would burden Barça with over 260 million euros. When moving from Leipzig to Barcelona, for which a transfer fee of 55 million euros was due, the offensive midfielder signed a contract until 2030 in the summer of 2024, which earns him around 55 million euros in salary. He is entitled to the entire sum. Since Olmos registration lock was lifted on January 8, he was only on the pitch in the 1-1 win against Getafe and was recently missing with a strain – in 18 missions he completed 962 minutes and was involved in nine goals.