La Liga continues to pressure Barcelona

Follow-up - INA

La Liga announced that it will immediately appeal before the regular courts the decision of the High Sports Council in favor of Barcelona and its players Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, which keeps them registered, as it considers it inconsistent with the law.

In a statement, La Liga affirmed its commitment to "legitimacy, competitive fairness, and the objective application of regulations on economic control and player registration." It emphasized that "the refusal of pre-licensing for license renewals or re-registrations results from the automatic application of player registration rules."

It explained that "the agreements of the Monitoring Committee of the Spanish Football Federation and La Liga, on January 4, 2025, were limited to confirming the legal impossibility of implementing the new licensing procedures, thus ratifying the literal application of the Federation's regulations."

It also clarified that this committee's agreement "does not replace the decisions previously adopted by the competent bodies of La Liga and the Spanish Football Federation."

The High Sports Council did not specify which body within the Spanish Football Federation or La Liga is responsible for the issue of pre-licensing and pre-licensing.

The two player licenses automatically expired on December 31, 2024, at the end of the agreed-upon license period. Between the players and the club, therefore, no special union procedure is required to overturn it.

It also emphasized that the Council's decision ignores the unified administrative and judicial principle that states that "complete nullity must be apparent because jurisdiction is expressly vested in another body (or no one), and this does not occur when prior legal interpretation is required to determine it, nor when the applicable regulations do not specify the body to which jurisdiction belongs."