Barcelona learn final Dani Olmo registration decision | OneFootball

The sporting arm of Spanish government has sided with Barcelona, ensuring that Hansi Flick will be able to continue playing Dani Olmo and Pau Victor for the remainder of the season.

Olmo and Victor unwittingly found themselves at the epicentre of a heated saga between Barcelona and Spanish football's governing bodies. The two players arrived last summer and couldn't immediately be registered as the Catalan giants had no room in their La Liga budget to accommodate their salaries.

Long-term injuries to other squad members allowed Barcelona to offer their recruits temporary registrations but failed to agree new terms before they expired at the end of 2024. Olmo and Victor were then removed from La Liga's official website as Spain's top flight refuses to allow players to sign two different registrations with the same club in the same season.

After they had multiple appeals turned down by La Liga and the Spanish football federation (RFEF), Barcelona went to the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD), the highest sporting governing body in Spain. The CSD gave Olmo and Victor another temporary registration while considering the complicated case in January and have finally come to a decision three months later.

Rather than questioning the financial limitations imposed by La Liga, Barcelona argued that by denying Olmo and Victor their playing registrations, they were violating each player's right to work. The Catalans also insisted the rule preventing multiple registrations in a single campaign was "outdated".

Had the CSD not sided with Barcelona, Olmo and Victor would have been prevented from playing further part in any competition for the rest of the season.

However, Barcelona will suffer the same headache when it comes to naming their squad for the 2025/26 campaign as they are still over their allotted La Liga budget. On Wednesday, Spain's top flight ruled that the €100m sale of VIP seats in the new Camp Nou never went through and was left out of the club's accounts published in January.

La Liga's leaders will have to either seal that deal or sell a glut of high earners this summer to ensure that they can register all their players and avoid this economic arm wrestle yet again.