Griezmann trains with Barca
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French striker Antoine Griezmann trained with his new Barcelona teammates for the first time yesterday following his controversial move from Atletic Madrid last week.
“The first of two sessions scheduled for the day was completed by all available first team players, including the newest incorporations, Frenkie de Jong, Neto, and Antoine Griezmann,” the Catalan club reported on its website.
Another French forward, Ousmane Dembele, and German goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen were both declared fit after recovering from injuries late last season.
Ter Stegen had been suffering from soreness in his right knee while Dembele had problems with his right hamstring.
There was no sign of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Philippe Coutinho, Arthur and Arturo Vidal who are all still on vacation after taking part in the Copa America.
Griezmann was presented as a Barcelona player on Sunday night, after the Catalans paid the 28-year-old’s 120-million-euro (US$135 million) release clause.
Buy-out price
Atletico described the amount as “insufficient,” complaining that Barcelona and Griezmann had negotiated the deal before the buy-out price dropped from 200 million euros at the start of July.
Spanish sports newspaper AS said on Saturday that Atletico will go to FIFA, the governing body of world football, to argue that Barcelona owes its more than the 120 million euros deposited by a lawyer for Griezmann on Friday.
Barcelona travels to Japan on Saturday where it will play friendlies against Chelsea on July 23 and Andres Iniesta’s Vissel Kobe four days later.
Elsewhere, Neymar showed up for training at Paris Saint-Germain yesterday, according to French media reports, a week late.
A video posted on the website of leading sports daily L’Equipe showed the 27-year-old Brazilian — his hair dyed peroxide blonde — getting out of a black Mercedes van at the club’s training ground in the suburbs of the French capital.
PSG officially began preseason training last Monday but Neymar, linked with a move back to Barcelona, was not there, with the player’s camp maintaining he had a prior agreement to stay away.
The French champion responded last week by threatening to take “appropriate action” against the world’s most expensive player, who said he had stayed in Brazil to attend a charity five-a-side football tournament run by his foundation, the Neymar Institute.
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