The FC Barcelona will go back to the trainings this Sunday 29 December to the 18 hours, when having finalised some short holidays of Christmas that arrive so only eight days days after the party contested against the Sportive Alavés in the Camp Nou (4-1). The staff culé is quoted in the Ciutat Esportiva to start with to prepare the party of the next 4 January against the RCD Espanyol in Cornellá, although it foresees a train 'light'.
Ernesto Valverde will not be able to explain still with his players sudamericanos (Arturo Vidal, Leo Messi, Luis Suárez and Net Walled), with special permission of the club to have of some days more than holidays (until 2 January), when having crossed some of them the Atlantic to visit to his familiar and friends.
It was as it was, the hard core of the players culés will be this Sunday in the Ciutat Esportiva, and the true is that the FC Barcelona returns to the work with several open fronts in the staff. Arturo Vidal will not be present, and will see if it is it on 2 January. The Chilean is being protagonist in the last hours of the actuality culé by his demand to the club with reason of some bonus in prizes that considers that they have not paid him of unfair form.
It treats of an upper figure to the two million euros, and in the club have seen this manoeuvre of the player and his lawyers like a strategy to force his exit, something that is an incógnita if it will produce or no during this market of winter. The one who yes will do the cases is Carles Aleñá, the one who already has arrived to an official agreement to leave yielded to the Real Betis.
Arthur Melo, without special permission of the club
Yes it could be in the session of this 29 December Arthur Melo (although theoretically it had more days on holiday). The Brazilian midfield player does not have permission like the rest of sudamericanos, because of the fact that it is recovering of an injury in the pubis that has had him a month without playing. The aim is that the footballer reincorpore in the next days to the dynamics of the group.
desconoce If it will arrive to time to contest the 'derbi' against the RCD Espanyol, although the safest is that yes it was available to be ranged by Ernesto Valverde in the semifinal of the Supercopa of Spain against the Athletic of Madrid, that will play on 9 January in Saudi Arabia.
Dembélé: Objective Champions League
Finally, another player that is recovering of an injury of gravity is Ousmane Dembélé. From the club wants to avoid as it was a new relapse, by what is going with a lot of care and caution in the process of recovery, without giving steps in false and advancing with firm step. The player was almost two weeks rehabilitating in the centre Aspetar of Doha, and already has begun to do continuous career under the supervision of the recuperadores.
Still there is not an exact date for his comeback, although the aim of the FC Barcelona is that Dembélé can be available to contest the eliminatory of the eighth of final of the Champions League in front of the Naples, with the party of gone to finals of the month of February.
Intense week of work for the Barça
The FC Barcelona, in definite, will face an intense week of work with a double session the Monday 30 December, and three more along the next days. It is necessary to go down the turrones and the comilonas of Christmas to recover the rhythm what before. Having that the sudamericanos go back the Thursday 2 January, Valverde will have only two days to work with all the staff before the first party of the year.