Xavi plans to start his new project very soon, surely with many open fronts in his squad, both high and low, but with the challenge of consolidating his football idea.
Importance of the start
FC Barcelona 2022/23 will start the pre-season on July 4 . He will have about twelve days of training ahead of him before leaving for the United States to complete the tour, with three or four games, and then return to Barcelona at the beginning of August, in order to finish fine-tuning his players, taking into account that this season the match schedule is even tighter, with the World Cup in Qatar just around the corner. It is evident that Xavi will not be able to start the preseason with his entire squad or with all the signings. To begin with, it remains to be seen if the internationals participating in the Nations League this summer (June 2-12) join on July 4 or have a few more days off. It also seems clear that all the incorporations will not have been closed yet, so today only the presence of Patrick Kessie seems certain from the first day, pending whether the Danish Andreas Christensen plays the Nations League. In any case, on July 4 the presence of a large part of the players who will be in the next season is expected, including those on loan, such as Philippe Coutinho, alex Collado or Francisco Trincao, as long as they have not resolved their cases before. Who will not be Luuk de Jong, who ends his loan on June 30, as well as Adama Traore, who also ends his loan from Wolverhampton on that date.
Details
Many doubts and uncertainties about the squad that Xavi Hernandez will be able to count on if Ousmane Dembele will be there or not- from July 4 , where there will also be an important representation of players from the subsidiary, headed by two who practically already have both feet in the first team: forwards Ferran Jutgla and Ezra Abde. The first two weeks the team will exercise in the Ciutat Esportiva.