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FC Barcelona President Laporta Speaks On Dani Olmo Registration Problem And Poor Results

FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta provided an update on Dani Olmo's registration problem at a Christmas lunch the club holds for members of the media.

Olmo was bought from RB Leipzig last summer as part of a deal worth up to $63 million (€60 million) according to BBC Sport, citing anonymous sources.

As has been a common theme of past transfer windows, however, Barca struggled to get Olmo and fellow summer signing Pau Victor registered, which meant that the former had to wait until Matchday 3 to make his debut.

Olmo was able to do this, and thankfully score the winner in a 2-1 comeback at Rayo Vallecano's expense, thanks to a loophole opened up by Andreas Christensen's injury.

In January, however, Olmo will have to be registered again and it is well known that he could leave for free if not cleared to play.

At the mentioned lunch, Laporta reassured the media and Barca fans as well that everything will be ironed out.

"We are working on the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor and we are studying all the avenues," Laporta said.

"One of them is the judicial route, and appealing that the margin left by (the injury of) Ter Stegen leaves us room to register Dani," he added.

Laporta also said that the club's new contract with Nike is "fundamental". and that "La Liga has asked us to pass it through the Assembly and we will comply with this formality on the 21st (of December)".

"And the other way is that there are other operations that we are finishing to meet these demands of the league to comply with Fair Play," the Blaugrana leader further explained.

Despite poor results as of late, Laporta leaped to the defense of his coach Hansi Flick, who has angered some fans.

"We also work hard in the sports section. In soccer, it's true that we could be better, but I don't like to look back. We go first and see the glass half full. I would also like to be six points ahead, but we have full confidence in the coach and the players.

"It's true that there are points that we shouldn't have lost, but it's time to look forward and make the players aware that every game is like a Champions League game, [including] the next one, against Atletico [Madrid]".

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