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Originally Posted by devo22
La Liga is a good damn joke. Just because of a couple of injuries, they allow Barcelona to sign a player outside of the transfer window ... so they go and sign Martin Brathwaite from Leganes, who are not allowed to replace him and are now stuck in relegation battle without their top striker.
They'll happily bend over backwards for the big guns to ensure a big title race. Who cares about the smaller clubs, right? Absolutely embarrassing.
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That's not exactly right. They didn't bend over for anything or allow them anything.
Barcelona took advantage of an (admittedly dumb) rule allowing them to apply to make new signings if a player is ruled out for more than five months and that the player they bring in must be a free agent or already playing in Spain and that they can not play in Uefa competition.
But yes, it's a stupid rule as what it has done has allowed Barca to pass their problem onto Leganes. But it's not a case of bending over for the big guns when the little clubs would be allowed to do the same in the same scenario.
The rule is dumb and simply shouldn't exist.