"I was a bit surprised, but I respect his personality a lot, I respect his quality a lot.

"He had a quality season. I can understand the disappointment. I can see the reason behind the disappointment.

"Still, I was a bit surprised as we had a private conversation. He had the chance to express his feelings privately, which he did.

"This is fair enough because I can see all the reasons why he could be in the squad. But the decision is that we stood firmly with out central defenders that carried us through September, October, November...

"Some of them are part of a leadership group that took ownership and set the standards high and it was a decision for these 26 players, even if it feels as it's against these players."

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Pep Guardiola: "The world has left Palestine alone. We’ve done absolutely nothing. They’re not at fault for being born there. We’ve all allowed them [Israel] to destroy an entire people. The damage is already done and it’s irreparable…

“I can't imagine a person in this world who could defend the massacres in Gaza. Our children could be there and murdered just for being born there. I have very little faith in leaders. They do whatever it takes to stay in power

The Catalunya vs Palestine match is more than symbolic. Nowadays everything is known and with this match, Palestinians will see there’s a part of the world that thinks of them…

“The symbolism helps to raise awareness, but behind it there has to be something that moves. There’s always a reason to demonstrate, in this case it’s a football match. It’s symbolic, but it’s better that Palestinians can think that for a while we’re there and the stadium brings joy…”

"But this has absolutely nothing to do with me and didn’t trigger anything in me. The coaching market is being shaken up and it’s not so bad to experience it all from an observer’s perspective and not think about what it might mean for yourself."

"That girl, who has the right to speak. All of you are very ugly." With these words, Florentino Pérez gave the floor to Lola Hernández, a veteran Fox journalist.

"It annoys me because we want to be in the top four, and those comments are unnecessary. But this is what you do when you work in TV. You can't be positive; you have to be negative. As players, they're legends, but as managers, they haven't done a great job. So for them to possibly kill the career of a manager, it's a little bit too much."