As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I'm going to Inter to see if they will let me play a bit of football.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.