The FC Barcelona starts the pre-season 2016-17 this Tuesday 19 August with the premise to prepare the best possible to face of the best way the challenges of the next season, in which it expects that the ones of Luis Enrique go back to compete to the end for doing with all the competitions in which they are immersed.
So only Suárez, Munir, Roberto, Adriano, Aleix Vidal, Mathieu, Masip, Denis, Halilovic and Samper will exercise this week, but from the next already will incorporate Burn Turan and, little by little, the international that have contested UEFA Euro 2016 and Glass Centenarian America this summer.
Between them they will find two of the new signings of the FC Barcelona for the next season, Samuel Umtiti and Lucas Digne, that have arrived to reinforce a defensive plot in which for the time being there is "overbooking". And it is that the Barcelona would wish to give off of Adriano Correia and Douglas Pereira, and could accept also some offer by the traspaso of Thomas Vermaelen.
Simultaneously, the yielded Alex Song -that arrived in his day to the Barça to play of central- and Martín Montoya neither explain for Luis Enrique, by what of here to the term of the market of signings 2016-17 could give still five drops in the Barcelona defensive flank.
All this, without explaining that several clubs of Europe, like the Besiktas, would be also interested in the signing of Jeremy Mathieu. The experienced central French, nevertheless, will not abandon the Catalan entity when having the full confidence of the technical body of Luis Enrique.