Barcelona players Dani Olmo and Pau Victor will be allowed to play for the club until the end of the season after Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD) upheld an appeal filed by the duo.
LaLiga had reduced Barcelona’s wage cap on Wednesday after it said the club’s recently revised accounts are not a match with the end-of-year figures from its past auditor.
The former accounts had proceeds from the sale of VIP seats in the renovated Camp Nou which granted Barca the opportunity to comply with LaLiga’s Financial Fair Play rules and extend the registration of Olmo and Victor.
However, the Spanish top flight stated Barca did not have the capacity to register the two players based on their accounts, but the CSD cancelled the agreement between LaLiga and the football federation [RFEF].
The CSD said the two players’ registration stands as valid as the RFEF acknowledged that “there is no federation resolution that agreed to the cancellation of the licences” and their decision not to grant a licence is “null and void”.
“In any case, the professional careers of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor have been protected since January 8 by the urgent precautionary measure granted by the CSD, with the sole aim of avoiding irreparable harm until this procedure is resolved,” it said.
“In short, for reasons of incompetence, for not having followed the appropriate procedures established in the regulations, and for not being the body authorised to make decisions, the agreement of the Monitoring Committee of the RFEF-LaLiga Coordination Agreement must be considered null and void, and all effects derived from it invalidated.”
In January, the CSD had allowed Barcelona to provisionally register the pair, four days after Spanish football authorities rejected their requests.
