La Liga continue fight against Dani Olmo & Pau Victor registration | OneFootball

Barcelona and La Liga continue to butt heads, with the latter appealing the decision from Spain's higher sports council to allow Dani Olmo and Pau Victor to remain registered to play.

Olmo has taken centre stage given his high profile and expensive arrival from RB Leipzig off the back of success with Spain at Euro 2024. But both players have been in the same boat, whereby their initial registration amid Barcelona's ongoing financial limitations was only possible through a short-term loophole until 31 December, which then expired.

Regulations dictate that a player cannot hold two separate registrations for a single club in the same season. So when the initial registrations ended, Spain's football federation (RFEF) and La Liga barred Olmo and Victor from playing any further part for Barcelona this campaign.

Hypothetically, either player could have walked away as a free agent at that time, with Barcelona being liable for the full value of their respective contracts and, in the case of Olmo, transfer fee. But the club successfully appealed to Spain’s highest sporting authority, who granted temporary registrations until a final verdict had been reached following an investigation.

Pau Victor has been much less spoken about / Yasser Bakhsh/GettyImages

That final verdict, delivered earlier this month, sided with Barcelona over RFEF and La Liga. But the latter have filed their displeasure with the ruling, which will now have to be reviewed again.

Barcelona have been relying on the €100m sale of VIP areas in the redeveloped Camp Nou to help get finances in order. But La Liga had openly questioned the validity of that deal and argued that at no point has the club had the "capacity" to register Olmo and Victor.

Barcelona have now accused La Liga of publishing confidential information in a statement this week.

"Barca underlines La Liga's inappropriate behaviour in making public the details of the financial information provided by the club to the club's board members," it read, "as well as in making public the decisions of La Liga's governing bodies against FC Barcelona, ​​an act that, in the club's opinion, 'is a flagrant breach of La Liga's obligations to one of its affiliates, as well as an express breach of Article 5 of the Regulations for the preparation of budgets.'"