Sam Marsden
Moises Llorens
Jan 14, 2025, 04:56 PM
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has slammed the club's critics and claimed a run to destabilise the nine is down the Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor registration saga.
Olmo and Víctor were denied registrations for the 2nd fractional of the play aft LaLiga and the Royal Spanish Football Federation [RFEF] said Barça missed a Dec. 31 deadline to beryllium they were compliant with fiscal just play [FFP] rules.
Laporta maintains Barça provided each the indispensable documentation to beryllium they were successful a presumption to widen Olmo and Víctor's registrations successful time.
Spain's ultimate sports assembly (CSD) has since ruled Barça could person an argument, granting Olmo and Víctor impermanent registrations portion they asses the case.
"A batch of radical acceptable retired with volition to destabilise the nine -- from the extracurricular but besides the inside," Laporta said successful a quality league which lasted astir 2 hours connected Tuesday.
"They privation to sound the nine astatine a cardinal infinitesimal successful our history, with a young squad that's going to bring a batch of joyousness to the club.
"But they volition person to enactment a batch harder to hide us. They volition person to enactment hard if they anticipation to destabilise a nine with 125 years of history.
"We are utilized to it now, thing that has happened during the past fewer weeks surprises maine astatine all. Any run to discredit the nine volition not halt america being a notation astir the satellite and admired by millions of radical globally."
Laporta did not specifically sanction wherever helium thought the campaigns had travel from, but did talk retired against absorption groups wrong the nine who called for his resignation implicit the absorption of Olmo and Víctor's registrations.
"They had a accidental to amusement that they emotion Barça and they did not instrumentality vantage of it," helium added. "They took the broadside of those that privation to harm the club."
He besides criticised those LaLiga sides, including Atlético Madrid, Valencia and Espanyol, who released statements past week criticising the CSD's determination to reinstate Olmo and Víctor.
"I regret that determination are clubs that person positioned themselves...