Barcelona's Dani Olmo receives short-term registration: Hansi Flick expresses delight as La Liga consider appeal

Barcelona's Dani Olmo and Pau Victor person been granted short-term registration by Spain's Supreme Sports Council (CSD).

Olmo and Victor person been the centre of a registration saga which has dominated headlines successful caller weeks.

The duo, who joined Barcelona connected imperishable deals past summer, were fixed a impermanent registration until the extremity of the twelvemonth courtesy of a regularisation which allows a nine to usage up to 80% of an injured player's wage to registry an alternate option.

Barcelona failed with 2 attempts successful December to registry the pairs via a tribunal order, earlier they missed the December 31 deadline to beryllium they were compliant with La Liga's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

The Blaugrana yet met the FFP guidelines connected January 3, via the €100m (£83m) merchantability of VIP boxes astatine the Camp Nou, which is presently being redeveloped.

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Olmo, Victor granted short-term support to play

However, by that point, Olmo and Victor had already been de-registered, and La Liga subsequently pointed to a regularisation that states a nine cannot registry a subordinate connected 2 abstracted occasions successful the aforesaid season.

Barcelona yet decided to reason against the mentation of that rule, appealing to the CSD to get registrations for some Olmo and Victor.

The CSD person granted the brace support to play successful the short-term until they marque a last ruling which could instrumentality up to 3 months.

In a statement, the CSD said: "This measure, which is provisional until the last solution of the entreaty lodged by the nine and the aforementioned players, suspends the Agreement of the Monitoring Committee of the RFEF-LaLiga Coordination Agreement and the cancellation of the sporting licences of the aforementioned players,"

"Likewise, it maintains the validity of those licences until this entreaty is yet resolved. The CSD considers that the non-adoption of this precautionary measurement would origin superior economical and sporting harm to the nine and, supra all, to the players.

"This could besides harm the interests of the Spanish nationalist team, arsenic good arsenic the remainder of the nationalist competitions, including La Liga."

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Flick "very happy" with Olmo, Victor decision

The ruling failed to get successful clip for Wednesday's Spanish Super semi-final against Athletic Club successful Jeddah Saudi Arabia.

In the pair's absence, Gavi and Lamine Yamal recovered the nett to usher Barcelona to a 2-0 victory, keeping their hopes live of lifting the Super Cup for the 15th clip successful their history.

Olmo and Victor volition beryllium disposable to diagnostic successful Sunday's last against Barcelona's arch-rivals Real Madrid oregon past season's Copa del Rey runners-up Mallorca.

Speaking aft the game, Hansi Flick admitted helium was "really happy" with the determination to assistance Olmo and Victor short-term registrations.

"I americium truly blessed for these 2 guys, but I americium besides blessed for the full team," Flick told reporters. "After the information, you tin spot what happens successful the bus, it was good. I deliberation the full nine is precise blessed for this decision, for this close decision.

"[Olmo and Victor] are happy. Not lone I'm happy, besides they are happy. It was a bully awesome for america earlier the lucifer due to the fact that everyone wants to amusement besides that we are a squad and we triumph besides for them."

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La Liga considering Olmo, Victor appeal

While Barcelona was blessed with the decision, La Liga released a connection to explicate that they would "review the contented of the decision" earlier they determine whether to marque an appeal.

La Liga said: "The solution was adopted without having forwarded the entreaty to La Liga oregon the RFEF, nor granting either enactment the accidental to taxable their arguments.

"Therefore, La Liga is presently unaware of the reasoning acceptable distant by the players and FC Barcelona successful the appeal. La Liga volition thoroughly reappraisal the contented of the determination with a presumption to filing the due appeals, portion besides expressing its implicit disagreement with the decision."

From Barcelona's perspective, they volition beryllium turning their afloat absorption to Sunday's Spanish Super Cup final, wherever Flick volition person the accidental to triumph his archetypal trophy successful complaint of the Blaugrana.

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