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Barcelona appear to be on their last legs when it comes to keeping Dani Olmo and Pau Victor available for the rest of the season. After they missed the deadline to keep them registered for the rest of the season, Barcelona sent all the required documents to La Liga for the sale of their VIP seats, a reported €110m deal that would allow them to do so .
However, after missing the deadline, the latest is that La Liga will not allow Barcelona to keep Olmo and Victor registered, with rules stating that players cannot be registered twice. The result is that the only way Barcelona can hold on to them contractually is to challenge their decision in the courts.
There are various routes available to them legally, as explained by MD. They could claim force majeure, which refers to unforeseen circumstances that prevent them from gathering the documents together for La Liga, although legal experts have indicated that it is unlikely to qualify for that ruling .
However the daily Catalans say that their most likely argument is that the registration period should be extended until the 2nd of February rather than the 31st of December, including the January transfer window. Their assumption would be that without the transfer window open, it does not allow Barcelona to make transfers, and therefore increase their salary cap, putting them at a disadvantage, and affecting the labor rights of Olmo and Victor.
With no legal opinion behind the following, it would seem a rather weak contention, given that Barcelona themselves tried to increase their salary cap by selling their VIP boxes, a route that allowed them to increase their salary cap without use the transfer market. However, the Blaugrana just need to persuade a judge that there is a sufficient challenge to prevent Olmo and Victor from being deregistered while they argue their case.
