The incorporation of Ricky Rubio (33) starting this Tuesday in Barça’s training sessions opens a range of possibilities in the near future for the team and the player himself, who is “in the final stretch” of recovering from his mental problems. , as he himself has confirmed on his social networks.
The Barça club has been monitoring Rubio’s situation for weeks, with Juan Carlos Navarro and Mario Fernández as interlocutors. The doors of the Palau have always been open for his possible return.
The El Masnou point guard, who has been training on his own for months and sources close to him reveal that he is in physical fitness, will now test himself in elite training sessions with his new companions, the Barça players, before seeing if he is fit. conditions to return to active basketball, which he abandoned last summer to focus on his recovery.
If the evolution were positive and Ricky is comfortable and integrates naturally into the Barça discipline, his incorporation into the squad would not present any bureaucratic or economic problem.
The first date to take into account is February 7, the deadline to register new players in the Euroleague. Right now, Barça has 15 of the 16 regulatory cards occupied since those under 20 years of age (Sarr, Jakucionis and Nessah) do not count for these purposes, so no movement would have to be made to be able to incorporate Ricky.
On the other hand, with the club mired in a serious economic crisis and with financial fair play being a buzzword in the Camp Nou offices, the monetary aspect could be an obstacle to the registration of the Catalan point guard but it will not be. In anticipation of being able to make reinforcements before the closing of the market in the Palau, they had reserved a margin that exceeds one million euros to be able to undertake these operations and the economic aspect is not the most important at the moment for Ricky, so for this reason There will be no barriers to his possible signing.
