Bordas: Barcelona will do their best to bring Neymar back to the club Barcelona Brazilian is Blaugrana's big wish since 2018

Barcelona failed in their attempts to bring Neymar back to the Camp Nou this summer, yet Blaugrana director Javier Bordas believes that the club hasn't yet ruled out that the Paris Saint-Germain forward will return.

Transfers in the January transfer market are always difficult, especially due to the limited timescale, however given the fact Neymar was so desperate to return, you can't rule anything out.

"While he wants to come, we will do what we can to bring him back," Bordas explained in an interview with EFE.

"What happens will happen, everything is constantly changing in football, but Neymar is Neymar.

"The case of Neymar is a special one. He's an exceptional player and he wants to come to Barcelona; he hasn't adapted to Paris; he was wrong to go there, and even he has said that."

One of the concerns emanating from the early stages of the 2019/20 season is both Lionel Messi's fitness and whether or not he will continue with the Catalan club for the foreseeable future.

"I don't see him at another club. There are few people more connected to Barcelona than Messi," he added.

"Messi is from Barcelona [having moved as a child and spent most of his life there]. Messi is Barcelona.

"People are worried about his contract clause, but Messi will stay because he is at home here, he feels it; he comes from La Masia, you only have to look at him when a match has been lost."

Not every supporter was left delighted by the Blaugrana's activity in the summer transfer market, yet Bordas believes that it's difficult to improve such a talented team.

"When you are reinforcing the best team in the world, it's very difficult," he confirmed.

"I don't that the signings that have been made in recent years have been wrong.

"Who is going to replace [Luis] Suarez or Messi? Who can play instead of [Ivan] Rakitic or [Sergio] Busquets? This year, with the economic effort involved, we have signed two players to be starters: [Frenkie] de Jong and [Antoine] Griezmann."