Great news came today from all places, Twitter!

Captain Carles Puyol announced via his personal Twitter page that he is finally returning to action following a three month hiatus due to a knee injury.

Puyol has been sidelined since May, missing out on the clubs entire summer tour and the first La Liga match of the season.

He was listed Friday on Pep Guardiola’s 21 man roster for Saturday’s La Liga match against Real Sociedad.

The club received more good news on Friday as Maxwell, Adriano and Afellay all received medical clearance an will also be available for Saturday’s match.

Now with a much deeper roster available to him it will be interesting to see if Pep rolls out is new 3-4-3 formation that worked so well two weeks ago against Villarreal or go back to their standard 4-3-3.

For FC Barcelona the only “regular” still out of action is Gerard Pique who continues to recover from a calf injury.