According to Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona will finalize their pre-season training plan in the coming days, which includes a training camp at St. George's Park, the FA's training base.
The report states that players not participating in the World Cup with their national teams will gather there under Hansi Flick from July 27th to August 3rd or 4th, and the team will use the training camp to play their first friendly matches of the summer.
According to Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona will play behind closed doors against either Watford or Stoke City. Bojan previously played for Stoke City. These two teams finished 16th and 17th in the Championship this season.
Additionally, on July 31st, Barcelona will face Chris Davies' Birmingham City, a team that finished 10th in the Championship and failed to get promoted to the Premier League.
The schedule for the remaining friendly matches is still being finalized. Due to the spread of the Ebola epidemic in neighboring countries, the friendly match against Liverpool originally scheduled for the second week of August in Nairobi, Kenya, has been temporarily put on hold. It is still possible to travel to Morocco to play against a local team, or to go to Buenos Aires to challenge River Plate at the Estadio Monumental; if former River Plate player Julián Álvarez has joined Barcelona by then, the attention on this match will be further increased.
The invitation for a friendly match in Peru that the club received last year is no longer under discussion. The appearance fee for this match was approximately 7 to 8 million euros.