Barcelona are reported to have offered assurance to Anthony Gordon that he will be registered in time for the club’s first La Liga match of the season—against Elche later this month.
A late scramble to cut costs and create spending room has defined each of the last few summers for the Spanish champions. Marcus Rashford wasn’t registered to play in La Liga until the day of last season’s opener, while Barcelona had previously got into all kinds of mess over Dani Olmo’s registration, which ended up being revoked by La Liga midseason.