Barcelona B to return to training with a squad of 35 players
Twenty-five players are due in on Monday, 10 at a later date
...and there are still likely to be more signings made this summer
Just 20 days after returning to the second division via the playoffs, on Monday Barçå B are back at work. It will be the first day of contact between the players and the coaching staff, with medical tests leading to work on the pitch later in the week.
The second team will begin pre-season with a lot to resolve. That's because on Monday (July 17), 25 players are expected at the Ciutat Esportiva to get to work under Gerard Lopez.
From last season, the players still involved with the B team are Varo, Martínez, Fali, Tarín, Sarsanedas, Marc Cardona, Alfaro, Abeledo, Moisés, Paik, Vilanova, Àlex Carbonell, Rafa Mujica, Dani Romera, Kaptoum and Nili.
Added to them will be the players coming up from Juvenil A: Carles Pérez, Dani Morer, Santi Bueno, Alasana, Josep Martínez, Abel Ruiz and Oriol Busquets (and two returning from loans: Jokin Ezkieta and Juan Cámara).
Ten more players will return later. Five of them are currently training with the first team (Ortolà, Aleñá, Cucurella, Vitinho and Palencia) and five more have longer vacations for various reasons and will return on July 24: Sergi Puig, Fati, Guillemenot, Lee and Quintillà.
Of the 35, there's at least 10 too many and that's without any more signings which will be made. It seems clear that Samu Araujo, Choco Lozano, Ruiz de Galarreta and Mariano Konyk, but there are others linked, too, such as Moha, Muhammed Usman and Miguel Olavide.
Therefore, the two men now in charge of the academy, José Mari Bakero and Guillermo Amor, have a lot of work ahead of them deciding what to do with such an excess of players.
