Barcelona president Joan Laporta appears to have issued a message of support from the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for the ongoing battle to re-sign Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
The pair, originally signed through interim measures following Andreas Christensen's injury, saw their deals expire on December 31 after Barcelona were unable to raise the required funds in time. League rules state that players cannot de-register and re-register in the same season.
Club officials remain in frantic talks to try and rectify the situation and there were a number of reports on Friday evening, starting with a unanimous agreement in the media that Barcelona are officially back to La Liga's 1:1 spending rules after the declaration The first 60 million euros from their sales of 120 million euros of VIP seats and return below their salary cap.
SIGNHowever, it stated that there has been no change in the situation of Olmo and Victor, with La Liga continuing to argue that Barcelona simply missed the deadline to re-register the pair.
This was followed by sportswho point out that Barcelona has once again contacted the RFEF to try to overturn La Liga's ruling.
With this in mind, giants produced a screenshot of what purports to be Laporta's now-deleted WhatsApp story, in which a purported statement from the RFEF appears to decree that La Liga's re-registration rule cannot be applied in this case.
“The RFEF, after hearing FCB's arguments, shares the same in that Article. 130.2 The RFEF Regulations are NOT applicable to the case of Olmo and Pau Victor, as, in that case, the loss of these players occurred, not by will of the club (which is what the article in question provides for), but from external factors and contrary to the will of the club”, the statement says.
“It is an indisputable fact that both the club and the players want to continue in the FCB team for the whole season. This interpretation of the rule is in accordance with the evident purpose of the article, which is precisely to promote the stability of the composition. from the players' teams”.
Then it came RAC1It is claimed that Barcelona have received confirmation from La Liga that both Olmo and Victor will be re-registered, previously World of Sports disputed this argument by emphasizing that there is no agreement between the club and the league.
Barcelona are ready to escalate the situation in court, or even the Ministry of Sport, with Laporta also believed to be ready to provide a public update to fans in the coming days.