The FC Barcelona of Koeman will return to the work on 30 August

The Barça already has date of return. The 2-8 suffered in Lisbon against the Bayern Munich was without place to doubts the greater humiliation of the history of the team, but has arrived the hour to make a fresh start and the players already are relaxing beside his families during these last days of August, enjoying of his holidays before reincorporarse to the discipline culé the next 30 of this month.

That is the day that have fixed Ronald Koeman and his 'staff' technician to start with to prepare the next season 2020-21. All the footballers are quoted this day to happen the corresponding proofs PCR, and the Monday 31 will carry out the first training from the 17:30 hours in the Ciutat Esportiva.

There it will joint with the rest of players the group of nine footballers that already initiated the pre-season on 12 August, and that is formed by Rafinha Alcántara, Pedri González, Francisco Trincao, Matheus Fernandes, Moussa Wagué, Oriol Busquets, Juan Miranda, Carles Aleñá and Jean-Clair Todibo. All they have options to remain in the first team, although ones more than others.

Francisco Trincao will have gap almost to 100%, whereas it will be necessary to see which sucede with Pedri, Aleñá and Todibo, also with options. More difficult have it Miranda, Oriol Busquets, Wagué, Matheus and Rafinha, that could finish being traspasados or yielded to other clubs. It will be necessary to add also to Miralem Pjanic, that the next 30 August will incorporate with normality beside the rest of mates.

And to the players of the current first staff will be necessary to add to Araújo, Ansu Fati and Riqui Puig, those who will happen to have index card and dorsal of the first team. Regarding the rest, it will be necessary to be slopes of which players do the cases and which arrive like new signings to reinforce to the team culé. Koeman, in any case, is happy for now with the talents that has in the staff.

LaLiga Begins on 12 September

The start of LaLiga Santander 2020-21 is fixed for 12 September, although the Spanish teams that have participated in the final stages of the Champions League (Barça, Athletic), in the Europe League (Seville) and contested the playoff of promotion to First (Girona or Elche) will begin the competition in the third day, with two weeks more to rest and rearm.

Real Madrid and Getafe, that also contested his European commitments after finish LaLiga, will begin a week before the championship playing already in the second day. In this sense, the most likely is that they remain matched between them in the first day, that will remain postponed for them.