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Barcelona have reportedly secured a deal to sell VIP boxes at Camp Nou to the investors from the Middle East worth £82.9 million, which will allow them to get attacking midfielder Dani Olmo registered to play for them in the second half of the season. With the aforementioned deal, Barcelona are hopeful to fulfill the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, which will allow them to extend the registration of Dani Olmo going into 2025.
Notably, the deadline for registering Dani Olmo is just three days away, and the non-compliance will lead to him leaving Barcelona as a free agent just six months after signing with them. The 26-year-old, born in Terrassa in Spain, had joined the Catalans for a whopping transfer fee of £45.6m, leaving the German club RB Leipzig after being an integral part of them for more than four years after arriving from Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia.
La Liga had granted a temporary registration to Dani Olmo to play for Barcelona
The sale of the VIP boxes at the Camp Nou happened on Saturday, December 29, under the leadership of Joan Laporta, the club President of Barcelona, which would help the club to make the first payment for registering Dani Olmo before or on December 31. La Liga had granted a temporary registration to the Spanish international to play for Barcelona after long-term injury to Andreas Christensen.
Barcelona had sought an extension to the temporary registration of Dani Olmo from court earlier with a lawsuit, arguing that not granting the extension would infringe on the working rights of their player. Although the Judge at the Commercial Court in Barcelona rejected the case of the Catalan giants in a big surprise after accepting the similar request in connection to Gavi in 2023.
La Liga released a statement on the decision from the Commercial Court in Barcelona, which read, “LaLiga has today learned of the ruling... rejecting the request for the provisional registration of Dani Olmo until June 30, 2025, on the grounds that none of the necessary conditions for the adoption of an interim measure have been met.”
