Barcelona coach Hansi Flick has said new signing Dani Olmo is not fit enough to take part in Saturday's LaLiga opener at Valencia amid ongoing doubts about when he will be registered with the league.
Olmo, 26,
joined Barça this summer for an initial fee of €55 million ($60.4m) from RB
Leipzig and trained with the team for the first time last Saturday.
"At the
moment, Dani is not in the right fitness for the game against Valencia,"
Flick said in a news conference ahead of his first competitive game in charge
of Barça.
"He is
not an option. He started very late to the preseason preparation and now we
take care of him. For us, it's important that all the players playing have no
injuries, that's the most important thing."
Olmo may not
have been able to play even if he was fit with his signing still not registered
with LaLiga.
The Catalan
club remain in excess of their annual spending cap and until they raise money
-- either through transfers or new revenue streams -- are not able to inscribe
the Spain international with the league.
Pau Victor,
a new arrival from Girona, also find themselves in a similar position to Olmo
ahead of the match at Mestalla as Barça rush to ensure Flick has as many
players available as possible. Iñigo Martínez, who was only registered for one
year last summer, was registered only on Friday.
"We
cannot change anything about that," Flick added when pressed on Barça's
problems registering all their players before the first game of the campaign
for the third season running.
"No
excuses, no complaining, it's just about the now. I made many experiences in my
past and I arrived here with this situation. I accept what I cannot change. And
this is it."
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