FC Barcelona continues to work to complete the pending registrations and thus avoid any setbacks ahead of the 2025/26 LaLiga debut against RCD Mallorca on August 16 at Son Moix.
The club has not officially announced the squad numbers while waiting to resolve the registrations of the new players (Joan García and Marcus Rashford, while Roony Bardghji will have a reserve team registration), in addition to the pending renewals. Among them, those of Gerard Martín and Marc Bernal.
It is worth remembering that the Azulgrana team contractually agreed that the players would be part of the team with a first-team number. However, the execution of that commitment is subject to the availability of salary margin, according to the recent additions.
Similarly, the Catalan team is working on the departures of Oriol Romeu and Iñaki Peña to continue reducing their salary space.
Joan García, Rashford and Szczęsny, priorities for Barça
In this context, the Barcelona team has defined its priorities. The first thing will be to close the registrations of García, Rashford and Wojciech Szczęsny; with that established order, the club would be working.
Once those registrations are resolved, the club will try to assign numbers to the academy players. Initially, it was expected that the club would resolve this before the Joan Gamper Trophy, but everything seems to indicate that this situation will be attempted to be resolved next week.
It should be noted that, beyond the priorities with the registrations, Barça will apply the agreed salary improvement for both players (Gerard Martín and Marc Bernal) from this season.
Martín, who received offers at the beginning of the market, chose to continue in the Blaugrana discipline, despite the fact that Alejandro Balde is emerging as the undisputed starter at left-back.
For his part, Marc Bernal could become one of the great revelations of the season, establishing himself as a firm bet of the coaching staff.
The sale of VIP boxes, an effective way to unlock registrations
After Marc-André ter Stegen refused to sign his medical report to send it to LaLiga so that Barcelona could use a percentage of his fee to at least register Joan García, the club is considering other options to unlock the situation, including the sale of the famous VIP boxes.including the sale of the famous VIP boxes.
Barça believes that, when the validation (which is expected in the coming days) of the operation linked to the sale of VIP seats is finalized, it will be allowed to adhere to the 1:1 rule. From that point, the entity believes that it would have generated the necessary salary margin to operate without restrictions during the summer market.
In addition, it is confident that this maneuver can be extended to the cases of Gerard Martín and Marc Bernal, although their inclusion is not yet fully guaranteed.