When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice.

When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.