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The president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta, has targeted LaLiga after the controversy over the re-registration of Dani Olmo.
After a long saga in which Barcelona appealed to the Higher Sports Council (CSD), the club was granted a temporary reprieve and allowed to re-register both Olmo and his teammate Pau Víctor.
The exceptional circumstances of the case have led the CSD to defend its sole decision by stating that preventing the registrations of Olmo and Víctor would cause significant damage to the players, Barcelona and even the interests of the Spanish team.
As a result, both players will be available for Barça coach Hansi Flick when his team faces Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup final on Sunday.
The decision has proven highly controversial and several clubs have expressed their intention to appeal the decision.
However, Laporta has made his feelings about the ruling clear in a recent interview.
Joan Laporta has celebrated the decision to allow Barcelona to re-register Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor after a long saga
LaLiga is taking its bitter dispute with Barcelona to court amid the fallout from the cash-strapped Catalans being allowed to register Olmo (right) and Victor (left).
“This Super Cup has been surrounded by controversy that could have been avoided if things had been done differently,” Laporta said, according to Marca.
“The fact is that it is already resolved and they will be able to play.”
LaLiga tries to counter its position due to the rule of the General Regulations of the RFEF that prohibits the re-registration of a player dropped from a team's roster during the same season.
A possible sanction could make the CSD ruling null and void if LaLiga wins.
Before announcing their success in registering the key duo, Barcelona smiled: “Good news for FC Barcelona. Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor are registered in La Liga and are therefore available to be selected by coach Hansi Flick , also for the final of the Spanish Super Cup on Sunday at 8:00 p.m.,” reads a statement from Barcelona.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the decision to allow Barça to re-register the two stars has proven highly controversial, with bitter rivals Atlético Madrid quick to criticize the decision, questioning whether it subverts the “fair competition” standard. “.
'Atlético de Madrid wants to express its deep concern about the situation of Spanish football following the resolution adopted this Wednesday by the Higher Sports Council. We believe that this decision puts the current system at risk, questioning the rules of the game,' said Los Colchoneros.
'The Sports Law itself includes and protects the economic control of LaLiga, but with this resolution it is put at risk. The economic control of LaLiga has been the main tool that has managed to turn our football into a solvent sector, a process admired internationally.
The Barcelona president cryptically insisted that the matter could have been avoided “if things had been done differently”
Both Olmo and Víctor will be available to play in the Spanish Super Cup match against Real Madrid on Sunday.
'Our club, like all LaLiga members until this resolution, has been complying with the economic control rules and will continue to do so.
'In fact, in order to compete at the level we have been doing in recent years, we have decided to carry out various capital increases, despite the enormous effort that this entails.
'This government intervention creates a very dangerous precedent, as it opens the door to breaking the rules and making the same serious mistakes of the past.
'Atlético de Madrid continues to focus on rigor and responsible management. Without clear and equal rules for everyone, fair competition is not possible.'
