Barça B: Pre-season test for seven Juvenil players

Catalan paper Sport claims seven Juvenil players will have a pre-season test with Barça Atlètic. They include Bolanos, Carles Planas, Polaco, Ilie, Jose Luis, Maestre, and Riverola Bartra.

If the trial is successful, the player would stay with Barça Atlètic for the upcoming season. Otherwise, the player could continue for Barcelona in Juvenil A or would have to seek a new club in case he cannot return to the Juvenil A team because he's too old.

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Youth: Manchester United offer for Bolanos

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Manchester United wants to sign Barcelona Juvenil A central defender Alex Bolaños (19) in the summer.

The English champions would have offered Bolaños, whose contract expires at the end of this season, to join their reserves team while they at the same time would look for a team for his brother Toni, who is now playing as midfielder with Sant Andreu Juvenil A.

Bolaños, who made his debut with Barcelona B last season, wouldn't exclude an exit, also because the promotion to Barcelona Atlètic doesn't seem easy because of the number of central defenders in that team. The centre back, who also can act as right back defender, has been part of Barcelona's youth academy for eight years. Over the last two weeks, Bolaños has been training twice with the first team (read more here).

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Hleb not in Valladolid list

Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola announced earlier today a list of 18 players for the 29th league game against Valladolid tomorrow evening at 8:00 pm.

The list:
Valdés, Pinto,
Alves, Puyol, Piqué, Márquez, Cáceres, Sylvinho,
Xavi, Busquets, Keita, Gudjohnsen, Iniesta,
Messi, Eto'o, Bojan, Henry, Pedro

Hleb noticed some problems in his right thigh during this morning's training session and is left out as precaution. Touré, Abidal and Milito are injured. Puyol and Iniesta got the green light today and are available. Jorquera and Víctor Sánchez are not included in the list.

All international returned to Barcelona. Henry, Gudjohnsen, Busquets, Bojan, Piqué and Xavi trained yesterday, while Hleb, Messi and Cáceres joined in today. Alves couldn't make it for this morning's training session and will train on his own this afternoon. Barcelona Juvenil A players Alex Bolaños, Ilie and Jonathan dos Santos trained with the first team today.

Calm training week in Barcelona

Due to the international matchs coming up in the next days, few first team players were present in Barcelona to take part in the training sessions.

On Tuesday, nine players (Valdés, Jorquera, Pinto, Márquez, Gudjohnsen, Sylvinho, Bojan, Pedro and Víctor Sánchez) trained together with Barcelona Atlètic.

On Wednesday, seven players (Valdés, Jorquera, Pinto, Márquez, Gudjohnsen, Sylvinho and Bojan) trained with three Barcelona Atlètic players (Gai, Solano and Rayo) and four Juvenil players (Muniesa, Dos Santos, Rochina and Bolaños). Pedro and Victor Sánchez played that day a game with Barcelona Atlètic.

On Thuesday, six players (Valdés, Jorquera, Pinto, Márquez, Sylvinho and Bojan) trained with six Barcelona Atlètic players (Nolito, Verdés, Maric, Rayo, Gai and Solano) and two Juvenil players (Romeu and Rochina). Gudjohnsen didn't take part because of stomach problems. The next training session is only planned for Tuesday.

In the meantime, the injured players (Milito, Abidal, Puyol and Iniesta) continued their recovery, while Touré travelled to Ivory Coast where the medical staff of the national team performed some medical tests. The defensive midfielder is expected back in Barcelona tomorrow.