A judge rules in favor of Barça and forces LaLiga to register Gavi

FC Barcelona footballer Gavi may be registered today in LaLiga as a full-fledged player of the Barça first team after a claim by the club's legal services has achieved a favorable ruling by a judge.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
31 January 2023 Tuesday 03:38
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A judge rules in favor of Barça and forces LaLiga to register Gavi

FC Barcelona footballer Gavi may be registered today in LaLiga as a full-fledged player of the Barça first team after a claim by the club's legal services has achieved a favorable ruling by a judge.

According to what 'La Vanguardia' has been able to find out, the ruling of Barcelona's commercial court number 12 obliges LaLiga to register despite the fact that Javier Tebas defended the contrary, arguing that "FC Barcelona's expected deficit for next season is more of 200 million euros", a circumstance that, according to Tebas, fails to comply with the 'fair play' regulations designed by the institution he presides over.

FC Barcelona, ​​which has been questioning LaLiga's rigidity on this particular issue for months, went to the court last Friday at 1:00 p.m. to find a legal loophole for what it considers a right, an extreme this that a judge has validated and It will be applied from midnight tonight, just when the registration of soccer players closes and taking advantage of the winter window. The judge's ruling is appealable by LaLiga. Barcelona received the good news this morning through its attorney.

Pablo Páez Gavira 'Gavi' has been one of the players with the most projection in the Barça youth system for years. Raised footballingly in La Masia, he is, at just 18 years old, indisputable in the center of Xavi's Barcelona field as well as with the absolute Spanish team.