{"id":373,"date":"2025-01-04T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-01-04T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:31:59","slug":"barca-coach-flick-optimistic-but-not-happy-over-olmo-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/barca-coach-flick-optimistic-but-not-happy-over-olmo-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca coach Flick optimistic but &#8216;not happy&#8217; over Olmo situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-4.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-4-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-4-768x561.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said Friday he was unhappy about potentially losing key midfielder Dani Olmo because of the club&#8217;s dire financial state, but optimistic the situation would be resolved successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Catalan giants said Tuesday they had asked the Spanish football federation to grant Spanish international Olmo a new license to play, after his initial registration expired on December 31, 2024 and Barcelona exhausted legal avenues to extend it. Barcelona signed Olmo for around 60 million euros ($62 million) in the summer and according to Spanish media his contract includes a clause which would allow him to be released if he is not registered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spanish top flight&#8217;s strict financial rules limit indebted Barcelona&#8217;s spending and they were initially only able to register Olmo after defender Andreas Christensen was injured in August. Along with Olmo, striker Pau Victor is in a similar position. &#8220;If I am honest, I was not happy about the situation, and the players are not happy about the situation,&#8221; Flick told a news conference Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But it is like it is and we have to accept it, we are professional, we have to play football. I have to coach and the club has to do their job. &#8220;The confidence (in the club) is there, I am always positive about things, but we have to wait for the decision.&#8221; Barcelona visit Barbastro in the Copa del Rey round of 32 on Saturday with Olmo and Victor currently unavailable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My job is to prepare the team for the cup,&#8221; continued Flick. &#8220;I was in contact before Christmas with the president and I spoke today with the president. &#8220;I have the confidence with the club that they do their job and I do my job.&#8221; An important figure in Spain&#8217;s Euro 2024 victory, Olmo, 26, has impressed since his move from Leipzig, scoring five league goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Liga said Tuesday &#8220;Barcelona has presented no alternative&#8221; complying with the league&#8217;s spending rules that would allow them to register players. Losing Olmo would be a blow to the third-place Blaugrana&#8217;s bid for silverware this year and another embarrassing mistake after years of financial mismanagement.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said Friday he was unhappy  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}