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Says recovery is going well but slower than expected and right now the feelings aren't the best so he will probably not play on Saturday.
It says that the idea is not to let him play against Valencia as well. So basically ruling him out of the game for now.
That is what old age does (32), no pre-season, a tiring Copa América being played on potato fields and probably Messi forcing a return before the Osasuna game and thus suffering from a small relapse as rumored originally.
Anyway this season should be the last in his career in terms of wanting to play every single game possible. In fact I would have nothing against Messi returning to his optimal form in a few months time. Let the team get used to a post-Messi era slowly. Malmierda cannot afford to base his entire "tactic" around a 32.5 year old Messi no matter how insanely good he is when ready to play. Nor should his teammates be looking for him nonstop.
With the arrivals of Griezmann and De Jong the need to do that constantly should diminish somewhat. Better be the case this season as we will otherwise have wasted tons of money on strengthening the team to no avail as with Coutinho and Dembélé.