Barcelona name Dani Olmo in Spanish Super Cup squad but will he be able to play?

Barcelona person included Dani Olmo and Pau Victor successful their Spanish Super Cup squad contempt the information neither are the brace are presently registered to play for the club.

Olmo and Victor are presently astatine the centre of a registration saga which is acceptable to overshadow Barcelona's build-up to Wednesday's Spanish Super Cup semi-final against Athletic Bilbao.

Barcelona were capable to registry Olmo and Victor successful the summertime owed to injuries astatine the time, but the registrations were lone applicable until December 31.

The Blaugrana person been moving to conscionable the La Liga's fiscal just play rules truthful they could widen the pair's registrations beyond the extremity of 2024.

However, portion they person present met the 1:1 requirements, the rules authorities that a squad cannot registry a subordinate doubly successful the aforesaid play but for "force majeure".

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Barcelona sanction Olmo, Victor successful Spanish Super Cup squad

As a result, Olmo is not presently registered with La Liga and is capable to go a escaped cause owed to a clause successful his contract.

Olmo's uncertain concern has attracted involvement from elsewhere, including from Premier League giants Arsenal and Manchester City.

AC Milan person besides entered the picture, having reportedly tabled an offer to motion Olmo for six months earlier allowing him to instrumentality to Barcelona.

Despite the involvement successful his services, Olmo has been named successful Hansi Flick's squad for the Spanish Super Cup successful Saudi Arabia.

Victor has besides been included successful the travelling party, adjacent though helium and Olmo are presently ineligible to play for the Blaugrana.

Barcelona are going to tribunal to entreaty the determination made by La Liga and the RFEF (Royal Spanish Football Federation), with the nine seemingly hopeful they tin registry the brace this week.

But if they are unsuccessful successful their appeal, Olmo and Victor volition person to ticker connected from the stands erstwhile Barcelona instrumentality connected Athletic successful Wednesday's semi-final.

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Who other is successful Barcelona's squad?

In affirmative news, Lamine Yamal volition question with the squad aft recovering from an ankle wounded which has kept him retired of the past 2 games.

However, it is presently unclear whether Yamal volition beryllium capable to commencement the semi-final successful Jeddah owed to his deficiency of grooming clip up of the fixture.

Andreas Christensen, Hector Fort and Ferran Torres person been included with Yamal, having recovered from their respective wounded issues.

Meanwhile, Marc Bernal is besides connected the database aft asking Flick if helium could question to enactment his teammates successful their Super Cup campaign.

Bernal volition lone beryllium a protagonist though, with the midfielder continuing to enactment connected his betterment from the anterior cruciate ligament wounded helium sustained successful August.

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