La Liga President Javier Tebas has as soon as once more appeared within the press with a sequence of headline-grabbing statements this Monday, declaring that Barcelona have been lucky to keep away from relegation from the division.
Regardless of optimism from Tebas final summer season that Barcelona had been on the verge of resolving their wage restrict points, La Liga and the Blaugrana have as soon as once more discovered themselves at odds in latest months over the registration of Dani Olmo. Barcelona secured a court docket injunction to maintain Olmo registered, regardless of La Liga disagreeing, and taking their very own authorized motion in opposition to that injunction.
“In August I anticipated them to unravel his issues, however within the final three days [of December] they needed to unravel every thing rapidly and couldn’t. Olmo signed figuring out that he may not play after December. The corporate that paid for the VIP containers didn’t appear solvent, all of it went to the CSD (Ministry for Sport) and in 24 hours, it was all resolved.”
“Olmo mustn’t end La Liga with Barca,” Tebas was quoted by Sport, in an interview with Europa Press.
The Olmo case has a restrict of the seventh of April, by which era the CSD should determine whether or not Barcelona have an argument to take care of Olmo’s registration, or if La Liga had been proper to unregister him. The Blaugrana are already making ready an enchantment.
In the meantime Tebas additionally posited that Barcelona had been fortunate to keep away from relegation for his or her function within the ongoing Negreira case.
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“Within the sporting division, when it’s found, it was already prescribed; if we might sanction, in fact we might do it: if it weren’t prescribed, Barca can be relegated,” Tebas defined.
Barcelona didn’t face any sporting punishment for his or her funds of €7-8m over a interval of 17 years to former Vice-President of the Referees Committee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira resulting from a authorized loophole – any circumstances past 5 years in the past (the case was introduced into public data in 2023) are past a statute of limitations. They’re accused of sporting corruption in a authorized capability, with the investigation ongoing.