The Board of Directors of FC Barcelona, led by Joan Laporta, has unanimously approved a last-minute measure to try to register the new signings before the league season begins. According to SER Catalunya, the club will submit a €7 million guarantee to LaLiga, aiming to register the four players who currently do not have a squad number: Joan García, Marcus Rashford, Wojciech Szczesny, and Gerard Martín.

A Guarantee as an Urgent Measure

In addition to these players, Roony Bardghji, Marc Bernal, and Héctor Fort are also pending registration, though their cases are different, as they could join the Barça Atlètic squad. The next step is for the club to formally present the guarantee and for LaLiga to decide whether it is sufficient to comply with financial fair play regulations.

This situation has arisen due to the club’s inability to activate certain economic “levers” planned for this summer. The VIP box sales, which were supposed to generate €100 million through the operation of 457 seats, have only produced €58 million so far, coming from Forta Advisors Limited (€28 million) and New Era Visionary Group (€30 million).

The expected revenues from the agreement with the Republic of Congo, announced in July, have also not yet materialized. The club anticipated receiving €40 million over four seasons from this deal.

The urgency is so high that even other sections of the club, such as the women’s football team—current champions of La Liga, Copa, Supercopa, and runners-up in the Champions League—have been affected. Pere Romeu, their coach, currently has only 17 first-team players registered.

Pressure to Have Goalkeepers Available

If the problem is not resolved, Barça could face an unprecedented scenario: neither Joan García nor Szczesny, the two goalkeepers used in preseason, would be registered. This could force Iñaki Peña, with no recent minutes and offers to leave, to start in the league opener against Mallorca at Son Moix.

In training, Hansi Flick has worked with all available first-team players, along with regulars from the reserve team like Toni Fernández, Guille Fernández, Jofre Turrents, and Pedro ‘Dro’ Fernández. Robert Lewandowski is still recovering from a biceps femoris injury, and Marc-André ter Stegen remains sidelined, increasing the urgency to register Joan García as soon as possible.

Laporta knows the guarantee is just a temporary fix but hopes it will allow the season to start without the burden of having key players unavailable. The club’s image, already affected by similar financial fair play issues last season, is once again at stake.