The situation that Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor live right now At Barça it has precedents. Eleven years ago, the employers’ association, as has happened now with the two Barça players, denied registration in the League to the then Getafe player Pedro León. Negative as a result of the Madrid team exceeding the squad cost limit, set at 17 million.
In this case, ysaccording to the official statement issued by LaLiga late on December 31 because “FC Barcelona has not presented any alternative that, in compliance with LALIGA’s economic control regulations, would allow it to register any player starting next January 2”
So, unlike now and just like what happened with Gavi In January 2023, the court did grant precautionary measures that allowed the player to be lined up despite the initial refusal. Measures then granted by the Commercial Court number 8 of Madrid. Sentence appealed by the League until the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Madrid agreed with the employers and their powers “to deny the license of a footballer if a Club or sports corporation exceeds the limit of the cost of the sports staff granted by the Body of Budget Validation”. Sentence that was appealed by the player himself and the AFE union.
Resource that was also dismissed because, in addition to what was previously stated, he insisted that the employer has the jurisdiction according to Royal Decree 1835/1990 of December 20, which confers the power “to prepare of the internal regulations aimed at preparing budgets and supervising their compliance.”
It is precisely It is this same rule that enables LaLiga to not register the Blaugranas in this second half of the season. Rule approved by the Delegate Commission. The same ruling mentioned above made it clear that this competence for the preparation of budgets “includes the denial of processing of a player’s registration if, in the case of accessing it based on effects derived from said registration, limits are crossed set by the Validation Body of the League as a staff cost for the corresponding season.” Furthermore, the writing He concluded by adding that “belonging mandatory to LaLiga means compliance with the instructions, circulars and all internal rules approved by the competent bodies of LaLiga, so that yes, in compliance monitoring functions of budgets that corresponds to LaLiga, it detects that there may be non-compliance with the processing of the registration and the visa, it can and must deny it because it has the coverage for said action.
The Court itself later dismissed the appeal by the player and the AFE. So, this reflects that it is LaLiga and only the employers’ association who has the power to authorize this registration, in addition to the corresponding validation as stated in the RFEF Coordination Agreement.
CAUSE OF FORCE MAJEURE
Barcelona wants to take part in the editorial of the article 130 of the General Regulations of the RFEF regarding the impossibility of registering a player twice in the same team in the same season: “A footballer may be registered in only one team. of a club, without the possibility of being discharged and registered by it during the course of the same season, except in the case of force majeure or regulatory provision. Likewise, during the course of the season, you may not be registered and line up in more than three different ones.”
It is specifically the fact of “cause of force majeure”. But it is something that only LaLiga can decide and communicate to the RFEF; in the hypothetical and almost impossible case that it were accepted.
