When Sandro Rosell was president of Barcelona from 2010-14, he allowed Qatar Airways to be their front-of-shirt sponsor, replacing charity Unicef. Laporta was critical of Rosell for that decision, saying “you had to choose between Qatar and corrupt or between Unicef and clean”.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta defended his handling of the Dani Olmo registration issue and lashed out at enemies attacking the club in a fiery speech on Tuesday.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has defended his management of the club's finances and said they followed the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules to enable them to register players Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has sent something of a message of appreciation the way of arch rivals Real Madrid.This comes owing to Real’s stance on the efforts of the Blaugrana to register

Dani Olmo's future at Barcelona remains in the balance as the Catalan club pursue their legal battle to get the midfielder registered to play once more.There is precedent -- in 2015 Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal joined Barcelona but were frozen out for six months because the Catalan club was serving a ban which prevented them from registering players.

Barcelona finally got positive news regarding Dani Olmo's situation and he's now available to play with the club—at least for now.

Dani Olmo and Pau Victor will be allowed to play for Barcelona after Spain's National Sports Council (CSD) on Wednesday allowed the LaLiga club to provisionally register the duo, four days after Spanish football authorities rejected their requests.

The past few weeks have been turbulent for Barcelona, particularly for Joan Laporta and Co.After all, the administration failed to register Dani Olmo and Pau Victor in time for the second half of the