FC Barcelona fears that one of its first team’s main stars could be banned from playing at the start of 2025 due to issues relating to his registration and Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits. according to SPORTwhich cited anonymous sources.

Barca made Dani Olmo a marquee signing for head coach Hansi Flick in the summer transfer window, after agreeing a deal that could exceed $60 million with his last club, RB Leipzig.

The 26-year-old was joint top scorer at Euro 2024 as his country Spain won a record fourth continental crown at the expense of England in Berlin, meaning sporting director Deco has pulled off a major coup by convincing Olmo’s former German employers to accept payment. in several times.

Such an arrangement suited Barca’s well-documented FFP problems, which once again resulted in a preparation for a new season fraught with obstacles when it came to registering new signings Olmo and Pau Victor .

Olmo had to wait patiently to make his debut, but he did so in style as he scored the winner in a 2-1 comeback away to Rayo Vallecano on matchday three of the ongoing 2024/2025 campaign.

Yet this step in the player’s career, returning to his childhood attire and eventually appearing for them as a professional after deciding to flee La Masia for Croatia as a youngster, was only made possible by Barça who used a loophole.

He used the long-term injury to centre-back Andreas Christensen to gain leeway to push through the registrations of Olmo and Pau Victor, and the club promised all three men at the time that Barca would have resolved their problems of FFP in January.

However, day by day, as this month’s transfer window fast approaches, Barça has yet to find a solution.

He is expected to have agreed a new deal with kit supplier and sponsor Nike, while the $65 million (€60 million) boondoggle linked to Libero and a percentage stake in Barca Studios has also not been settled and accounted for.

The Blaugrana need an injection of cash from somewhere, quickly. Otherwise, she might have to break her word to Olmo or Christensen.

As SPORT explains, one of the two could be registered at the end of the year. But not the two men, as things stand.