Miralem Pjanic's debut as a Barça player will have to wait. Barça has announced through a statement that the Croatian midfielder, who has been playing until the 2019-20 season at Juventus, has tested positive in the last PCR test that has been carried out and will have to stay at home for a within 15 days . Therefore, he will not be able to join training on August 30, the day on which the squad that Ronald Koeman now directs will begin preseason work.

Pjanic is the third Barça player to have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent times. The first of them was Frenchman Jean-Clair Todibo , who was playing on loan in the ranks of German Schalke 04. The second was announced on Friday of last week, moments before the Barcelona team was beaten by Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Another Frenchman, a Samuel Umtiti previously on sick leave due to a knee injury, added to a list of those affected by SARS-CoV-2 that has now been expanded by Pjanic's positive.

The signing of Pjanic, 30 years old and one of the main figures of Juventus in recent seasons, was officially announced on June 30. Its cost is 60 million euros fixed to which would be added up to five more in variables and, de facto, it is practically an exchange of stickers with the Brazilian Arthur, whose last days as a Barcelona player have been involved in controversy due to his refusal to rejoining the squad to play the Champions League and a traffic accident in which he tested positive for breathalyzer.

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