Bar Canaletes: Barcelona made attempt to sign Leao which La Liga rejected | OneFootball

Barcelona attempted to sign Rafael Leao from AC Milan during the summer transfer window but the move was rejected by La Liga.

As reported by Bar Canaletes (via Football Espana), Barcelona president Joan Laporta has been desperate to add another star name to his team and he settled on Leao in the latter stages of the transfer window.

Despite never agreeing a fee with Milan for the Portuguese winger, Barcelona had sent a a memorandum of understanding to La Liga stating their and Nike’s intentions to sign a deal.

Barcelona have been struggling to register players in La Liga which meant they needed the league to give them the green light to go ahead with the deal for the former Sporting and Lille attacker.

La Liga president Javier Tebas made it clear to Laporta that this would not be sufficient to register the player and Laporta should stop trying to make it happen.

Barcelona’s registration problems manifested themselves with Dani Olmo this summer. Barcelona could not register the new signing but Tebas opted to let them use an emergency injury rule so that Olmo’s salary was registered in place of Andreas Christensen’s.

There are suggestions that the Danish defender will not be out for as long as Barcelona are making out.