Looking unfriendly, but solicitous of the fans who came up to greet him, Dani Olmo arrived in Barcelona this Saturday from the Spanish national team's training camp. While he will undergo tests in the coming days to determine the extent of a soleus injury, Barça are certain that the Egarense midfielder won't be able to play much in the next stretch of the competition. It will take between three weeks and a month to heal and, therefore, he will miss the first Clásico of the season.

Hansi Flick is taking advantage of this break to mend Barça's shoes after a week in which the team has been stripped bare, both defensively and offensively. The defeats against PSG and Sevilla, while not a complete disaster, They have set off certain alarm bells in the coaching staff and in the sports management. The German has already spoken about "egos and collective effort," as well as "structure," while Deco warned this week in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio that without "work," Barça is a much more vulnerable team: "We're not that good." The demands of rivals like PSG, the current Champions League champions, and the avalanche of injuries that have weighed down the squad have not allowed the coach to fine-tune a starting eleven with consistency.

What everyone expected has happened. Both La Liga and Barça were clear that the Higher Sports Council (CSD) would maintain the criterion in the final resolution Regarding the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor. The highest level of the Spanish government in sports matters is relying on the right of both Barça players to pursue professional careers to maintain the licenses it granted them, provisionally and until April 7, under an emergency precautionary measure, in early January. The CSD also considers that neither La Liga nor the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), through their joint monitoring committee, have the authority to deny licenses to two players who were registered.

At the halfway point of this campaign, Pedri has already surpassed (35) the number of games he played in the entire eventful last season (34). The canary shines with its own light And finally, after three courses that were a real nightmare due to muscle injuries and relapses, he has managed not only to show his great talent in small parts, but to do so on a regular basis. Hansi Flick entrusted him with being the team leader, a task that the ARA already announced months ago, and to which the footballer has responded with credentials on the pitch. Correcting habits beyond the practice of football, taking care of his diet and working on physical prevention – both with muscle strength exercises and with the practice of disciplines such as Pilates – have allowed him to achieve a regularity desired by the 22-year-old footballer, by his coach and, also, by Barça, with whom at the end of January he sealed the renewal until 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 Pedri suffered up to eight muscle injuries was one of the biggest headaches for the Barça medical services and the player's closest environment. Finally, the club chose to order an exhaustive muscle analysis to know the footballer's muscle fibers in detail and, thus, be able to adapt a personalized routine that would help him prevent injuries and improve his physical performance. As advanced Sports WorldAt the end of last season, the club contacted Julio Tous, a leading international trainer – who has been the head of physical preparation for Barça's first team since the summer – to start a specific physical plan for Pedri. The procedure was coordinated with the Barça medical services and with the collaboration and approval of the player.