The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

Let slip the dogs of champions.

The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.