Ronald Araújo, Robert Lewandowski, Frenkie de Jong y Andreas Christensen en un entrenamiento con el FC Barcelona

INJURIES 'PUNISH' THE TEAM

Ansu will have company! Barça is left without Frenkie de Jong and 3 other players for the tour

Published:24/07/2024 - 19:36h

Updated:24/07/2024 - 19:36h

Injuries have 'hindered' the start of Hansi Flick's project at Barça. Frenkie de Jong, Ronald Araújo, Gavi, Pedri and Ansu Fati will be the big absentees from the club on the tour of the United States

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The start of the adventure of Hansi Flick in the bench of the FC Barcelona has seen entorpecido by the injuries. In the midday of this Wednesday 24 July, the Barcelona entity confirmed that Ansu Fati will not travel with the team to turns it by United States when suffering a fascitis plant in the right foot, incoveniente that will keep him separated of the terrains of game, in the worst of the cases, during a month and half.

Now, the newspaper 'ACE' has informed that Frenkie of Jong kept a meeting with the trainer and the doctors to take a decision regarding the state of his ankle and the suitability to join to the Barcelona expedition in North America. Finally, all the parts involved arrived to a consensus and agreed that the best is that the Dutch midfield player remain in the City Condal to continue his rehabilitation of face to the start of the season.

Of this way, remains in evidence that the right ankle of the footballer follows without answering to the expectations. The average to recover a sprain of degrees two in the ankle is used to to be between six to eight weeks, but in the case of Frenkie have passed twelve weeks and there are not signals of a solution in the short term. This injury, in addition to 'entorpecer' the plans of Flick, also represents a 'escollo' for the club, that will not be able to have to the player like an available alternative of face to the market since his high index card and the uncertainty around his physical state have depreciated his value.

In addition to the drop of Frenkie, Flick neither will be able to have Ronald Araújo, that was operated the past Monday of a desinserción in the sinew of the biceps femoral of the right leg, physical setback that will keep him in the dry dam during four months, roughly. In the meantime, Pedro and Gavi also will follow working in his recovery in the Ciutat Esportiva, leaving to the short German of effective in the medullary.

The Barça will recover to several stars

In a more positive note, the technical Teutonic will recover to Marc-André Ter Stegen, that will join to the staff to finals of this week. Same case that Ilkay Gündogan, Raphinha and Jules Koundé, those who reincorporarán to the dynamics of the first team directly in United States, once the expedition blaugrana land in North American floor to face the friendly of pre-season in front of the Manchester City, the Real Madrid and the AC Milan.

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