Barcelona coach Hansi Flick hinted at the team’s enthusiastic reaction when news broke on Wednesday night that Dani Olmo and Pau Victor had been given provisional registrations for the second half of the season.
The team found out on their way to King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah for the Supercopa de Espana semi-final against Athletic Club.
After he was La Liga and the RFEF said it would not be possible to re-register Olmo and Victor for the second half of the season after the pair’s short-term registration expired on December 31, an appeal through a local court failed, leaving the final appeal to Spain’s national sports council.
It didn’t completely solve the problem. But Barcelona, missing the deadline to secure registration by days after raising the last funds they needed to return to the 1:1 spending rules, received permission for temporary registration until the final appeal verdict.
“The news arrived on the bus, you should see how the news was received. We are a team and we wanted to win for Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, but also for the team,” said Flick after defeating the Athletic Club.
“[Olmo and Victor] are happy. It was a good sign for us before the game. We wanted to show that we are a team.”
This means that both can now continue to play after not being qualified to face Barbastra in the Copa del Rey or Athletic Club in the Super Cup. The players are with the rest of the squad in Saudi Arabia – Barcelona flew them in the hope of a decision – and could possibly play in Sunday’s final.
There was a particular concern about Olmo. The €60 million summer signing was determined to stay at Barcelona, but he had the right to terminate his contract and move on as a free agent, all the while receiving the full value of the deal, with the club still liable for the defaulted transfer. fee.
RFEF president Rafael Louzan reacted diplomatically to the sports council’s decision that allowed Barcelona to bypass the football federation’s sharp rejection.
“The truth is that news is news and it’s important, it affects two players and a big club like Barcelona. We have to respect the decisions of an institution like CSD,” he said Movistar.
“We cannot go into the assessment because we studied here at the stadium [in Saudi Arabia] decision on the ban and when we can find out more deeply what this body communicated, we will make an assessment that La Liga will also have to make. We complied with the regulations, there is a rulebook that then gave consent to HSD as well.”
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