First League match, first call for Xavi, already with all the signings registered, except Koundé, and first message. The coach has summoned 23 players for tonight’s debut in the League against Rayo Vallecano (9:00 pm) at the Camp Nou. and it doesn’t show up Sergiño Destthe right-back whom he has hardly used in this preseason, although Ferran Torres does appear, who has not played a single minute this summer.
This is a powerful message from Xavi, who after the renewal of Azpilicueta for Chelsea, continues to look for a new owner of the right wing. In addition, Dest is the only pure specialist in that position in the new squad that the Barça club has set up.
But Xavi does not have Dest, willing as he is to place Sergio Robertrenewed this summer for one more year, on the right flank of the defense or even moving Araujo to that area, as was seen in the summer classic against Madrid.
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The absence of Dest has been as unexpected as the losses of Umtiti and Braithwaite are expected. Both are still at the Camp Nou, despite the fact that Xavi told them in May that he didn’t count on them. But neither the French nor the Danish find a way out, clinging, for the moment, to their respective contracts.
Interest of the United by Dest
With the dismissal of Dest it is clear that Xavi still maintains the idea of signing a right-back before the market ends on August 31. Ferran was discharged last Friday and hours later he did enter that list where there is no place for the former Ajax defender, wanted by Manchester United, who does not abandon the idea of ending power by signing Frenkie de Jong.