Barcelona ready for ‘intense week’ as club scramble to register players

Barcelona kick off their La Liga title defence on Saturday towards Actual Mallorca and are as soon as once more scrambling to register gamers earlier than returning to motion.

It’s a situation that’s grow to be worryingly acquainted at Camp Nou and can as soon as once more go away gamers sweating on their availability for the beginning of the season.

Dani Olmo and Jules Kounde know all about what it looks like, having been compelled to overlook matches after becoming a member of the membership, and this yr it’s the flip of Joan Garcia, Marcus Rashford and Roony Bardghji.

Besides it’s not fairly so simple as all that. Barca additionally must register Wojciech Szczęsny, Gerard Martín, Héctor Fort, and Marc Bernal for 2025-26 as properly. There’s principally an opportunity that Inaki Pena may need to play on Saturday as a result of Garcia and Szczesny aren’t registered and Marc-Andre ter Stegen is injured.

Joan Laporta is in optimistic temper as at all times however has admitted issues would possibly get somewhat bit tense within the build-up to Saturday’s league opener.

”This week will probably be an intense one as a result of sure operations are about to closed out that can give us the margin of monetary honest play we have to register gamers,” he informed TV3.

But the truth that Laporta has additionally stated he’s “actually grateful” to Inigo Martinez for leaving and that “we might have preferred for him to remain for the yr left on his contract” reveals the registration course of isn’t as straightforward as he’d like us all to imagine. If it was, the gamers could be registered already.

As an alternative Barcelona are as soon as once more battling the clock, nonetheless making an attempt to get the VIP bins deal permitted by the auditor to allow them to return to the 1:1 rule and get everybody registered.

There’s additionally the small matter of the place Barcelona are going to play this season to fret about. The renovated Camp Nou was alleged to host the Gamper Trophy but it surely ended up being performed on the Estadi Johan Cruyff as an alternative.

Barcelona’s first dwelling recreation of the season towards Valencia on September 14 can also be alleged to be performed on the Camp Nou however doubts are rising over that situation and the membership are reportedly on the lookout for different options.