Barcelona begins the preparatory season with the purification of the team and pending contracts

In addition to these, at the moment, he also has nine players from the youth academy … at the expense of knowing what will happen to three others (Julián Araujo, Chadi Riyad and Arnau Tenas), whose fate is not decided, and deciding the signing of the midfielder who was Auriol Romeo is the main candidate. A cluttered changing room that desperately needs to be emptied.

There were a total of 23 players who passed medicals in the morning to train in the afternoon at Ciudad Deportiva with two personal names: the presence of Alejandro Balde, who has already recovered from the injury he picked up at the end of last year, and the absence of Aleix Collado who was loaned to Elche last season. and is negotiating his immediate departure with Betis as a possible destination.

Rafinha, Iñac Peña, Inigo Martinez, Sergi Roberto, Pedri, Ronald Araujo, Baldi, Marcos Alonso, Nico Gonzalez, Ferran Torres, Eric Garcia, Pablo Toure, Clement Lenglet and Serginho Dest are the 14 players from the first team who attended the club’s facilities, with the future of the last six not yet decided.

Indeed, Dest, Lenglet and Pablo Toure already know that they will not start the league with Barcelona, ​​as in the case of Eric and Ferran, the club is open to negotiating their departure, either in the form of a loan or transfer.

Alongside them were players of local origin, Marc Casado, Lamin Yamal, Pau Brim, Mikael Faye, Pau Cobarce, Marc Joyo, Estanes Pedrola, Unai Hernandez and Firmin Lopez. Among the nine, it is understood that Yamal is invited, with a record from the affiliate, to have a leadership role in the first team, which Casadó also aspires to while Pedrola could leave on loan.

Next week, one day before flying to the United States, Ilkay Gundogan, Robert Lewandowski, De Jong, Ter Stegen, Ousmane Dembele, Jules Conde, Jaffe, Andreas Christensen, Ansu Fati, Abdelzaouli and Franck Kessie will join the squad. All of them with a guaranteed ticket for the tour … Although the possibility of departure from the Ivory Coast is not excluded.

The list of football players exceeded the matter, which prompted Xavi already during the weekend to hold talks with several football players to clarify their position at the beginning, which is difficult in several cases, and that Mathieu Alamani is working with the aim of finding the necessary exits, whether to register new players. And of course adapting the team to the needs of the club.