Gavi will be back on the bench for Barcelona today for the first time in almost one year. He’s part of the squad to face Benfica.

🚨🔵🔴 Barcelona are prepared to get new deal done for Gavi as soon as he returns on the pitch, as reported two weeks ago. “I can confirm that Gavi’s contract will also be extended”, Joan Laporta has confirmed.

- No Araujo. - No Gavi. - No Gündoğan. - No Fermín. - No de Jong. - No Olmo. - No Ansu Fati. - No Roque. - Balde’s first competitive match in 7 months. - Pedri just coming back. - Marc & Marc youngsters! - AND with Ferran Torres… Hansi Flick achieved his first win with Barça in his first match that too away at Mestalla. 🫡

📊 Marc Bernal vs Valencia: 71 Minutes Played 61 Touches 49 Accurate Passes 94% Pass Accuracy 4/4 Accurate Long Balls 5/8 Ground Duels Won 1/1 Aerial Duel Won 1 Blocked Shot 4 Tackles 3 Recoveries 0 Fouls Committed Solid debut by 17yo midfielder. 💎💎 Imagine him pairing with Gavi 🤯 #alien2804

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🔵🔴Players currently Barcelona registered and their shirt numbers. Marc André ter Stegen - #1 Iñaki Peña - #13 Pau Cubarsí - #2 Alejandro Balde - #3 Ronald Araujo - #4 Andreas Christensen - #15 Jules Koundé - #23 Eric García - #24 Gavi - #6 Pedri - #8 Fermín López - #16 Frenkie de Jong - #21 İlkay Gündoğan - #22 Ferran Torres - #7 Robert Lewandowski - #9 Raphinha - #11 Lamine Yamal - #19 ℹ️ - Clément Lenglet and Ansu Fati have also been registered but they do not appear with a shirt number right now. 🚫 The players who have not been registered yet are - Iñigo Martínez, Alex Valle, Marc Casadó, Pablo Torre, Dani Olmo, Pau Víctor and Vitor Roque.

🔥🔥La Liga Officially Starts Tomorrow and yet Flick has an incomplete squad as of now to play the first match. Defensive Players... 1. Kounde - ready 2. Cubarsi - not ready per reports. 3. Eric Garcia - not ready per reports. 4. Christensen - ready 5. Balde - ready 6. Inigo Martinez - not registered. 7. Araujo - injured 8. Lenglet - being sold *Only three tactically are ready here unless Inigo is registered before time, something Flick has ordered the board to do before Saturday. Midfield Players 1. De Jong - injured 2. Gavi - not ready 3. Pedri - not ready 4. Gundogan - had some discomfort but trained today. 5. Bernal - risky 6. Casado - risky 7. Pablo Torre - ready 8. Olmo - not registered *Only two players reliable and tactically ready with experience here. Attaching Players... 1. Lamine - ready 2. Raphina - ready 3. Lewandowski - ready 4. Ferran - ready 5. Pau Victor - ready 6. Ansu - injured 7. Roque - being sold On paper, out of a total 24 squad we gotta have, only a little over 12 players are ready. We play with 11 players on the field. What are we doing??🤦‍♂️ It's two weeks till the market closes and nothing seems to be happening...at least if you won't sign any players, get the fu*king registration DONE for the man to start his job. Letting Alemany go was a huge mistake 😤. In my next post will be a brief analysis about our financial situation right now🤔...stay tuned. #alien2804

🚨 | SQUAD ANALYSIS | 🚨 Up next is the Central midfield position where we have Ilkay Gundogan, Pablo Torre & Gavi for tbe position. 🇩🇪 Gundogan: being the best midfielfielder in the squad should guarantee him a spot in the starting XI; but due to his below-par performances in the pre season it has put him in a difficult position to start matches when the season begins. I see him starting vs Valencia on Saturday though. 🇪🇸 Pablo Torre: naturally an attacking midfielfielder but due to the overload in the position I'm fancying him to play as a central midfielfielder with his sublime ball control and dazzling speed with the ball, he has everything it takes to play in the position. 🇪🇸 Gavi: our warrior who got injured at war looking to come back stronger than ever. It's no news that he got an ACL injury vs Georgia while representing his father land last year and he is back in training and will probably be back fully in thr squad in few months to now. He will fit in Flick's physical based football and I hope he comes back in time to heal the pain we have gotten from his ACL injury news. Stay tuned for the next position that I will be analyzing for y'all. Visca El Barca 🔵🔴🔥 [TNOB] #alien2804

I think with the way Nico transfer saga is moving and with the latest performance of Fermin Lopez mixed with the new signing of Dani Olmo, we need to improvise as a team. If Nico decides not to come, Dani Olmo is a very flexible player who can play in the flank, and we use Fermin in his position since he is so direct to score goals…. A very important stuff we need right now. With that we can use Dani Olmo as a false wing just like The way Xavi used Gavi, which will give this guy more space to flex his shooting prowess. With that we can utilize both players without any problem or lapses😁 This is just my own view of the current situation innit. 🥲 What do you think about it? Let’s hear you 🎤 #alien2804

UPDATE: From Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services have charged the 46-year-old man arrested earlier today in relation to historic aggravated assaults at a school in Alice Springs. He has been charged with 5 counts of aggravated assault and bailed to appear in Alice Springs Local Court on Tuesday 13 August 2024. ————————————- Nine News understands Gavin Morris was taken into custody this morning by police and is facing several allegations of assaulting school children. #9News