FC Barcelona managed to sign Dani Olmo ‘in extremis’ before the match against Rayo Vallecano last Tuesday. The registration of the player from Egar has generated a lot of controversy, especially from various sectors of the Real Madrid press, where they even suggested that LaLiga should do favours so that the Blaugrana entity could get the green light and be able to register the midfielder..
For this reason, Javier Gómez, general director of LaLiga, came forward to categorically deny these speculations. In an appearance at the LaLiga headquarters in Madrid in the context of the closing of the transfer market, The executive has clarified the operation of article 77 of the Rules for the Preparation of LaLiga Club Budgetswhich specifies the possibility of registering a new player taking advantage of the injury of a teammate whose diagnosis predicts an approximate period of absence of four months.
“Three years ago, when a player was injured, he could unregister, because when he was registered he could register at any time during the season without being in the summer or winter periods. Now, when a player is injured, you can bring in another player for 80% of the injured player’s salary. The only thing that has been added is that, if you do not have fair play, you are being loaned because a player has been injured and you can register another player.. So, if you fail to rebalance fair play throughout the season, on July 1 of the following season you will be removed from the ability to register and hire players for the following season,” he said about the rule.
The absences of Christensen and Araújo are key
Gomez also stressed that “It is the same treatment as when a coach is fired and you do not have fair play or when a player from the youth team exploits you and, without fair play, you want to renew him.. This rule has been applied to all clubs since the 23/24 season, this treatment was applied to eight clubs with twelve players. Could Christensen recover and be able to play? From the federation’s point of view, yes, and Araujo, too.”
Finally, the general director of LaLiga made it clear that “All clubs have accepted that a player who recovers before four months can play again and the important thing is to treat them all equally.“, thus ‘settling’ all the rumours and information sent from the capital that falsely accused Barça of being favoured by the employers.
