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Barcelona could beryllium prevented from picking 2 of their players for the remainder of the play aft being accused of incorrectly filing their fiscal figures earlier this year.
Amid the club's fiscal struggles, Barcelona announced successful January that they had sold 475 VIP seats successful the rebuilt Nou Camp to a fig of Middle East investors.
The deals that agelong crossed 30 years were said to person added £84m to the club's finances, allowing them to equilibrium their books.
It besides enabled Barcelona to re-register Dani Olmo and Pau Victor for the 2nd fractional of the play aft determination was genuine interest that the duo would person to beryllium near retired of Hansi Flick's squad.
A impermanent accountant for Barcelona filed the paperwork to corroborate the woody connected December 31, but LaLiga person present alleged that the figures sent done by the club's caller full-time accountancy firm, Crowe Spain, for this play amusement the £84m was not included.
Releasing a connection connected Wednesday, LaLiga wrote: 'On January 3 2025, a certificate issued by the club’s caller auditor was provided, recognising that the transaction was correctly recorded arsenic income successful the club’s Profit and Loss relationship for the existent season.
Barcelona whitethorn not beryllium capable to tract Dani Olmo (right) for the remainder of the season
Pau Victor (centre) is besides astatine hazard of being banned from playing again this season
LaLiga - fronted by president Javier Tebas (pictured) - person accused Barca of not including the £84m that helped them re-register Olmo and Victor successful their fiscal accounts for this season
'This documentation was indispensable and indispensable to validate the accounting.
'Without these certificates, it would not person been imaginable for Barcelona to registry players with LaLiga.
'Subsequently, successful its Interim Financial Statements referring to the archetypal fractional of the existent season, nary magnitude of the aforementioned firm cognition is yet recorded successful the Profit and Loss account.
'That is contrary to what had been certified by the Club and the auditor astatine the clip of the execution of said operation.'
LaLiga person told Barcelona that the £84m has been knocked disconnected their spending limits, with Olmo and Victor present deemed to beryllium 'unregistered'.
Spain's Sports Council - a subdivision of the country's authorities - is expected to marque a last determination connected the eligibility of Olmo and Victor successful the coming days.
Should the assembly travel down connected the broadside of LaLiga, Olmo and Victor volition miss the season's run-in, with Barcelona presently connected people for a historical Treble.
They person a three-point vantage implicit Real Madrid successful LaLiga and volition look their arch-rivals successful the Copa del Rey last aboriginal this month.
Barcelona are besides into the Champions League quarter-finals wherever they volition instrumentality connected Borussia Dortmund.
Olmo lone joined Barcelona past summer, and has scored 8 goals successful his maiden campaign
Hansi Flick present faces a tense hold to spot whether helium tin telephone upon Olmo and Victor for the remainder of the season
Olmo lone joined Barcelona for £50m from RB Leipzig past summer, but was linked with a determination to the Premier League successful January erstwhile it was unclear whether Barcelona would beryllium capable to re-register him.
They were yet fixed the greenish light, but this ruling could beryllium overturned successful airy of the caller accusation enactment guardant by LaLiga.
Olmo has scored 8 goals successful 28 appearances crossed each competitions this season.
Victor, 23, has mostly been restricted to constricted minutes disconnected the seat this term, and has scored doubly successful 22 outings.
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