The registration of the player Dani Olmo by FC Barcelona has opened a new crack in the already strained legal and regulatory ecosystem of Spanish professional football. What might appear on the surface to be a mere dispute over clubs’ financial control mechanisms, in reality, brings into play much deeper issues: the independence of sporting institutions, respect for legal procedures and equal treatment among entities. Beneath the surface of this conflict lies a questionable - and perhaps self-interested - use of Sports Law by the Spanish National Sports Council (CSD), whose involvement in the case has reignited suspicions about its impartiality and its role as a supposedly neutral arbiter of the system.

At the heart of the debate is the validity of the CSD’s decision to approve Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor’s registrations despite...

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