Koeman expresses his happiness with Messi: "He is the best, very important"

Already they are two weeks of work of pre-season for the FC Barcelona of Ronald Koeman, and the Dutch technician has attended in the last hours to the official means of the Barcelona club to value how have been these days of intense work in the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper and, in passing, has expressed his happiness by the fact that Leo Messi have remained finally in the Barça.

"Already I have said it several times that Messi is the best and Messi in his fitness is a player importantísimo, as it already has showed a lot of years and ojalá can repeat this year", has ensured the Dutch trainer in front of the cameras. To fault already of few hours to measure to the Nástic of Tarragona in the first party of the pre-season culé, Koeman sees to his increasingly ready players.

"It is being very positive, the players are working very well, there is a lot of intensity in the entrenos"

In fact, it is very happy by the intensity and motivation that are showing in the sessions of training. "It has been very positive, the players are working very well, there is a lot of intensity in the entrenos. We have done more physical and now touches us work more the tactical, but in all the trainings the players have showed a lot of spirit, interest and intensity and this is very important because it plays as it trains . I am very happy with the work that have done these two weeks", has analysed Koeman.

The season 2020-21 of the Barça will begin officially the weekend of the 26 or 27 September, against the Villarreal in the Camp Nou. For said party, no all the players of the Barcelona will have arrived with the same days on holiday. "It is complicated because it is a pre-season cortita of four weeks before our first party in front of the Villarreal. And also it is a pre-season a bit more individual, because there are players that have played more parties, others have had more rest, and it is necessary to achieve that all arrive to tope for the first party".

First test of pre-season for the Barça

Regarding the party against the Nástic in the Estadi Johan Cruyff, will do that each one of his players contest 45 minutes on the lawn so that they begin to film . "Each player goes to play 45 minutes to look for the intensity of the party, and clear that our order of game, how want to play when have the balloon, the transition, how go to presionar up...", it signals.

Finally, Koeman shows satisfied with the personality, win and quality that have showed the young talents of the team in the trainings, as they are the recently arrived Pedri González, Francisco Trincao and Matheus Fernandes. "The youngsters have adapted very well, also the signings. The youngsters have participated and have a lot of quality. It is missing to mature and take more physical, but quality exists". This is the important.

Koeman, a legend of the FC Barcelona