This Saturday’s session would be completely inconsequential if it weren’t for the fact that it will be the last one for some players in their career at the Ciutat Esportiva. And it is that players like Óscar Mingueza, Riqui Puig, Samuel Umtiti, Luuk de Jong or Martin Braithwaite already know through the coach that they will not follow next season, so they are living their last hours as a blaugrana. In the case of Mingueza and Riqui Puig, it could be that this Sunday against Villarreal will also be the last time they wear the Blaugrana shirt, since they will not travel to Sydney to play the friendly against an Australian star team as they have permission from Xavi to stay in Barcelona and be able to play with Catalonia.
Few novelties, in any case, in the last official training session of the season, except for the return of Ronald Araújo, once recovered from the concussion he suffered in the match against Celta. There are also Frenkie de Jong and Jordi Alba, who missed the game against Getafe through suspension.
Those who continue without training and will be absent not only against Villarreal in the last game of the seasonif not also in Wednesday’s friendly on Australian soil are Sergiño Dest, Gerard Piqué, Eric Garcia, Pedri, Sergi Roberto and Nico González, all of them injured.
The good atmosphere reigned in the last training session of the season, with many activation games and playful tests. Whoever lost had to go through the famous collejas corridor. One of the ones she repeated was Clement Lenglet, another one whose future is more up in the air than ever.