Barcelona confident about CSD ruling in their favour over Dani Olmo registration | OneFootball

Just as it seemed like Barcelona were past their financial struggles and had returned to the financial 1:1 rule, a new problem has cropped up which severely debilitates the club’s freedom on the economic front.

As relayed earlier this season, Barcelona returned to the financial 1:1 rule after sanctioning the sale of a set of VIP seats in the new Spotify Camp Nou.

However, this manoeuvre found its undoing when the club’s auditor left out the 100 million earned through the seat sales from the club’s income, citing that the aforementioned seats had no physical existence yet and thus no tangible value.

Needless to say, the development brought the registration of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor into serious trouble with the club now facing a serious risk of having them de-registered.

Barcelona’s hope

As relayed by Mundo Deportivo, the CSD must reach a final decision before next Monday over the duo’s registration. Barcelona, however, continue to remain confident in the players’ situations.

Barcelona remain confident despite latest setback. (Photo by Linnea Rheborg/Getty Images)

The players’ right to work appears to be Barcelona’s trump card in response to any action the CSD initiates including deregistering the duo.

After all, both Olmo and Victor will be left clubless until the end of the season should they be de-registered at this point and will no longer have a legal means to leave the club this season.

Earlier this year, the CSD sided with Barcelona over the provision of the precautionary measure to register both players, citing that they had the right to offer their services and keep playing at the level they have proven to be at.

A decision to deregister them now would antagonise the sympathy they showed the first time around, and Barcelona thus hope that the ruling will once again be in their favour.

La Liga and Javier Tebas in particular, however, are hellbent on seeing Barcelona punished for their financial irresponsibility and it remains to be seen if they push hard enough to make the CSD rule in their favour. Barcelona are confident, but it may well not be enough.