La Liga President Tebas Seeks To Keep Olmo Unregistered

La Liga president Javier Tebas has said that the league was still fighting to have Barcelona forward Dani Olmo unregistered for the second half of the season.

Olmo was unregistered by La Liga and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) on January 1 after Barça failed to prove they were compliant with the league’s financial fair play rules (FFP) in time for a December 31 deadline.

However, ESPN reports that Spain’s sports ministry (CSD) reinstated Olmo’s registration — as well as forward Pau Víctor’s — a week later as they agreed to analyse an appeal from Barça.

“We are against the registration and are taking the necessary action with the relevant bodies, requesting that he is unregistered,” Tebas said on Tuesday.

The CSD ruling sparked outrage among other LaLiga clubs, with Atlético Madrid, Espanyol and Valencia, among several teams, to release statements criticising the decision.

“They are right,” Tebas added of the reaction from other clubs. “If we, as LaLiga, are taking the action we are taking, it’s because we feel that the decision that has been made is not in accordance with the regulations.”

Olmo has featured three times for Barça since the CSD’s ruling, in the Supercopa win over Real Madrid, the Copa del Rey victory against Real Betis and LaLiga draw with Getafe.

However, he has missed the last two games injured, while Pau Víctor has played just 39 minutes of football in total since the decision, coming off the bench against Betis and again in Sunday’s 7-1 win over Valencia.