Official: Barcelona squad list for the US pre-season tour

Barcelona will fly to the United States of America later this afternoon for their pre-season camp and ahead of the trip, manager Xavi Hernandez has released the list of players he will be taking along.

The manager has announced a long list of 32 players who will be travelling to the USA where Barça are scheduled to play four friendly encounters.

As expected, the entire first-team squad that won the La Liga title last season will be making the trip to North America. It includes transfer-listed players such as Ferran Torres and Franck Kessie. Julian Araujo, who is linked with a loan exit, also makes the cut.

In addition, all three new signings – Ilkay Gundogan, Inigo Martinez, and Oriol Romeu, whose transfer was confirmed earlier today, will also travel.

Meanwhile, players that have returned from loan such as Clement Lenglet, Ez Abde, and Sergino Dest also feature on Xavi’s list, but there is no place for Nico Gonzalez, indicating that an exit might be close for the midfielder.

As far as the youth players are concerned, seven names make the list in the form of Mikayil Faye, Marc Casado, Aleix Garcia, Alex Valle, Ander Astralaga, Lamine Yamal, and Fermin Lopez.

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Barcelona will kick off their tour with a friendly against Juventus this weekend, before playing Arsenal and Real Madrid. They will end the trip with a game against AC Milan.