"Barcelona" opens his season without Messi .. Valverde does not risk anything!

Barcelona coach, Ernesto Valverde, is unlikely to push Argentine Lionel Messi in the first leg of the Primera Liga match against Athletic Bilbao on Friday, while still refusing to comment on the return. from Neymar. Paris Saint Germain.

The Barcelona captain and his historic striker were injured in the calf during the training of his team before his short stay in the United States in anticipation of the new season. Since then, Messi has not fully returned to training before the Catalan giant faces "Bilbao".

Messi appeared in videos Thursday, running individually in the sand, but Valverde dismissed the idea of ​​an adventurous physical form, Messi.

"We never want to risk any player, let alone a player like Liu," he said at a press conference on Thursday. "He has not yet returned to team training.While we are satisfied with his progress, individual training is very different from the game we will wait and see."

Barcelona has spent more than 200 million euros for new business, including signing Dutchman Franky de Jong and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, but rumors remain about the possibility of Neymar's return after his departure from Barcelona, two years ago, for Paris Saint-Germain. In a world record, the purchase amounts to 222 million euros.

The coach refused to answer questions regarding the club's wish to return to Neymar and lamented that the transfer period to Spain does not end before the start of the new season, as in England.

"I'm far from the contract and I'm only focusing on the players I'm going to play for the first game of the new season, Neymar is tied to Paris Saint-Germain, we'll see what happens but I can not say anything to his subject, "he said.