Ronald Koeman expected to be without 17 players in his first training session as Barca coach

There is a new hands in the herm of affairs in the dug out for Barcelona. If you recall that Quique Setien was saved following their humiliating defeat to Bayern Munich in the quarter final of the Champions League last season.

Barcelona finished in second place behind La Liga eventual Champions, Real Madrid.

Josep Bartomeu has decided to appoint Ronald Koeman as the new boss, following the dutch spell as a player under former manager, Johannes Cruijff in the 90's.

Just so you know, Koeman played for Barcelona between 1989–1995, with 192 league appearances and scoring 67 times.

The 57 years old has left his position as Netherlands manager to manage Barcelona and he's expected to begin his first training session today.

Ahead of Barcelona's pre season training, Koeman is exptected to be without 17 first team players.

These players didn't show up at the Sant Joan Despi training ground due to injuries, international commitments and holidays, according to reports from Spain.

Senior players such as Marc-Andre ter Stegen is recovering from knee surgery, Miralem Pjanic is self-isolating in Italy after testing positive for coronavirus and Philippe Coutinho is still on holiday following his Champions League exploit with Bayern Munich.

It's been gathered that likes of Frenkie de Jong, Sergio Busquets, Clement Lenglet, Antoine Griezmann, Francisco Trincao, Nelson Semedo, Martin Braithwaite, Ansu Fati, Inaki Pena, Riqui Puig, Juan Miranda, Carles Alena and Pedri have travelled for their international duties due to the FIFA international break this week.

This man's that the former Everton snd Southampton manager will promote various players from the academy of Barcelona ahead of his training this week.