The most uncertain Barça, the one from the 2021-22 season, begins this Saturday with the first PCR tests to the players who finished LaLiga on May 23 and who have not played Eurocup or America's Cup (Braithwaite, Eric García, Busquets, Pedri, Jordi Alba, Depay, De Jong, Griezmann, Lenglet, Dembélé, Messi, Agüero, Emerson, Araújo). Neither will Òscar Mingueza, summoned with the Olympic National Team. Neither Ilaix, protagonist of the last mess since Barça, As a measure of pressure for not renewing, he has not mentioned it with the rest of the first team players.
Barça starts to walk without having resolved the future of the best player in its history Messi, who ended his contract with the Barça club on June 30 and hopes that there will be a fit in the salary limit to renew. If not, it will go away. The four signings (Eric, Depay, Agüero and Emerson) are also waiting for Barça to release salary massl to be enrolled. For now, the club has terminated Matheus' contract, has sold Junior Firpo to Leeds, Todibo to Nice and Konrad to Olympique de Marseille; and has yielded Trincao to Wolverhampton.
The players who must start taking medical tests this Saturday are Neto, Sergiño Dest, Piqué, Sergi Roberto, Umtiti, Pjanic, Riqui Puig, Collado and Coutinho, who seems ready to start the preseason. There will also be Ter Stegen and Ansu Fati, who are recovering from their knee injuries. And Dembélé, although in his case he would also have a vacation after playing the Eurocup.
Of those who start, it is not clear the future of Neto, who asked to leave but still does not bring an offer that convinces the club (which is also pending the recovery of Ter Stegen), Sergi Roberto (reduction of the pending file), Umtiti , Pjanic and CoutinhoSo it can be said that Barça starts low, so much so that at the same time as the tests. Of those who start only Dest, Piqué, Riqui and Collado have their secure place in the first team next season. It seemed like Ilaix too, but things have changed.
The first-team players will be joined by affiliates who have options next season. Álex Collado will be practically considered a first team player, like midfielder Nico and goalkeeper Iñaki Peña. Monchu, Ilias, Gavi, Comas, Ramos Mingo, Arnau Tenas and Yusuf Demir, a future player who has arrived on loan from Rapid Vienna, have also been cited.
Perhaps unaware of the major problem it had with the salary mass, Barça planned to incorporate a left back (Wijndal was interested) and a midfielder (Lorenzo Pellegrini was a candidate) to complete the squad, but that does not seem easy. But that is the least of Barça's most uncertain current problems, with Messi in limbo.