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MADRID — Barcelona president Joan Laporta has defended his administration's handling of the Dani Olmo case and has claimed that there was a campaign to tarnish the club's image. Laporta said in a news conference Tuesday that a portion of the media and opposition members wanted the club to fail while trying to register the Spain midfielder, who is back after Barcelona won a government ruling. Barcelona managed to register Olmo and forward Pau Víctor after the government's sports authority intervened with a provisional ruling against the Spanish league and Spanish federation's decision to deny the club's request because it missed the end-of-the year deadline to comply with financial fair-play rules.
