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    20 - Dani Olmo

    I blame Laporta for signing Olmo without a clear plan on his registration, but its also true that these LaLiga rules are very arbitrary and oftentimes don't make any sense. Barcelona is a club in an economic downturn but clearly has the long term assets and financial power to sustain a few...
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    The rules are certainly very strange and extremely inflexible. It's absurdly stringent compared to the other top leagues. It is also the only league that sets virtual wages for players if they sign on lower wages than expected (insane). I remember they set Alves at like 5m or something. The...
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    Christensen's registration dates back to when he was signed, we never cancelled it, but they gave us more salary space because of his injury.
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    Joan Laporta

    Laporta's presidency won't continue if the Olmo problem isn't sorted. We are at the mercy of Olmo and his agents, its possible he agrees to sit out for 6 months and forgo any compensation but if they want to turn the screw we are in big trouble financially.
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    The reason given : a player who has been unregistered cannot be re-registered for the same club in the same season. So we met the requirements on January 3rd, but Olmo's prior registration had already expired, meaning it is too late now to make the space. Massive massive disaster incoming.
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    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    This is an important point because we have a lot of young players who are waiting for big pay rises. They are on old contracts and will be demanding salaries reflecting their starting role and future talent. You can add Casado and Cubarsi to that. That is going to take up a huge amount of...
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    Joan Laporta

    There is a lot of conflicting news, many are saying we registered Olmo, some are saying we haven't, this is chaos and probably nobody has any idea what is going on. We will have to wait for the official statement from LaLiga and FCB. Messi situation all over again.
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    That's what I'm thinking, this is such a miserable situation that at least the chaos and the fireworks will be fun to watch between Barca and LaLiga. Oh well, season fucked and maybe the next few seasons too. Disaster.
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    That is... going to be apocalyptic. Buckle in for the ride guys. Laporta will threaten them to move leagues and then resign if he can't get this done.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Finishing below 2nd can't be acceptable and we are even about to be overtaken by Bilbao. I really like the football we've seen but there also needs to be a result in either LaLiga or the CL. (He needs to get to the semi finals of the CL at least). It could be that we get knocked out of the CL...
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    Joan Laporta

    Great take from a Barca account on Twitter. Even though Laporta has made some mistakes so far, if he has got us back to 1:1 (BIG if, let's see what happens with Olmo), he deserves the chance to show what he can do without limitations now the dirty work is done. Then after that if he does a bad...
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    The deadline was a few days ago, right? Whatever is going on now is politics. The decision was meant to be made already. Hopefully we successfully manage to lobby them to register him, but that is not a success. A smaller club would have been swatted off already.
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    Joan Laporta

    We should've known that at the start though. I get the arguments from people here saying we had to stay competitive but what good is staying competitive for a few seasons and then self-destructing because we can't keep up with the rate of spending? It may have been financially and competitively...
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    Joan Laporta

    I expect Laporta to point the finger at Tebas over this, but we need to see the actual evidence of what happened here if it turns out we are unable to register him. Not just going to take Laporta's word anymore for it and I doubt most of the fans will either. If its proven LL fucked us over...
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    Joan Laporta

    Olmo wasn't that crucial, if it was going to cause this much mayhem we should have left him. Even if there was a small risk of this happening it was nowhere near worth it, its not like he is the best player in the world or something.
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    It is a legal matter in nature but it is likely we would have to pay out his full contract if he demanded it, because we have broken the terms of the contract. He may agree to stay even if his registration fails, but that is his prerogative, basically we are at the mercy of his decision. If...
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    And now if he is released on a free because we can't register him, what happens? I don't think taking such a huge risk just to sign Olmo this season is justified. I bet the board will fix it somehow, but it will be like last window, scrambling and making bad decisions just to secure registration.
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    20 - Dani Olmo

    Why are we talking about Bartomeu now? He is a disaster, yes. But that is not the topic here. The topic is why are we signing players without a guarantee that we can even register them? Who is responsible for that? That would be grounds for immediate resignation by Laporta ; this would be a...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    We need to sell some good players! That's the reality and until we stop kicking the can down the road we will never be able to build the squad perfectly. We have major holes and we have to make some sacrifices to fill them.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    It's certainly true that the results on paper were better than what the reality was, of course, because the team being on track for 95 points or so wasn't because of a dominance more than sheer grit and defensive resilience, and some luck helping us along the way. However, I think it's fair to...

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