The contest that FC Barcelona and LaLiga maintain on account of the disparate interpretation of compliance with financial fair play saw a partial victory for the Barça club yesterday. The footballer Gavi was finally registered during the closing day of the winter market thanks to the favorable order of a judge to whom the legal services of Barça resorted last Friday as a last resort to achieve an objective that the organization chaired by Javier Tebas opposed .
The news, exclusively advanced by La Vanguardia in its digital edition, implies that the youth squad player will become a full member of the first team as of today with a file appropriate to his status, a contract until 2026 and a termination clause of 1,000 million euros. Gavi changes the number 30 for the number 6 on the back, the same one made famous by his current coach, Xavi Hernández, in his football days.
The ruling of the commercial court number 12 of Barcelona resolved in the morning in favor of the request of FC Barcelona to apply precautionary measures in the case. The club understood that LaLiga's refusal to register its player would imply, textually, "his freedom", rendering the application of its termination clause ineffective and giving rise to "very serious and irreparable damage" to the interested parties. Of the entity.
In his letter, the judge expressed himself in the following terms: "I demand that the National Professional Football League, immediately after notification of the corresponding order, allow FC Barcelona to carry out the necessary procedures in LaLiga to obtain the registration of the contract dated September 15, 2022 and the player's secondment to the first team before 23:59:59 h. on Tuesday, January 31, 2023”.
LaLiga, which found out about the meaning of the order through the news reported by this newspaper, reacted to it with a statement in which it advanced compliance with the precautionary judicial resolution "as it could not be otherwise", for, act followed by announcing what their movements will be from now on: "We will oppose this measure because we consider that there are sufficient factual and legal reasons for the court to agree to its lifting, as will be proven in court at the appropriate time." LaLiga, which will therefore file an appeal, wanted to point out its "ignorance of the content of the main lawsuit", making it clear that "this precautionary measure has been adopted without having had the opportunity to present its arguments".
Javier Tebas, just before hearing about the judicial order, had explained the reasons for the refusal to register Gavi during the awards gala of the Sports Press Association of Madrid: "It can be denied because next season the expected deficit of the Barcelona are more than 200 million euros”. And he added: "I think it is important that we remember what the vice president of Barcelona said in the June assembly and also in the ordinary assembly, which is that they would reduce the salary bill from 600 million euros to 400 and I think he said a little more. . Let's see when we start."
Much happier after knowing the outcome of the case, Gavi was, apart from the player of course, his coach, Xavi Hernández, who appeared before the press yesterday as a preview of the Betis-Barça match that will be played tonight. “I cannot comment too much on laws, I am lazy. But a judge agrees with us and it is very good news for us and for Gavi. The priority is to have players as important as him insured. I don't see Gavi changing scenery. He is transcendental here and he is very happy ”.
Pablo Páez Gavira, Gavi, is one of the footballers with the most projection in the Barça academy. Raised footballingly in La Masia, he is, at only 18 years old, an indisputable piece in Xavi's Barcelona midfield as well as in the absolute Spanish team. Tactically versatile, he can play inside, his most natural position, but also as a fake left-footed winger (he played in the final of the Spanish Super Cup scoring one goal and assisting two others) and even as a fake nine. His representative, Iván de la Peña, managed his renewal last September, but it was not until yesterday that it became effective.
