Quotes from Ernesto Valverde

Wins are big boosts for your confidence, but sometimes you don't notice little things. When you lose a game, it means that the opponent has had a plan, and it's worked - now we need to see our capacity for response.

Over the season, the games come thick and fast, and in some games, you aren't so lucky.

Umtiti is a great player, and we expect him to stay at Barca for many more years and for him to enjoy his football with us.

Technology is going to be good for football, but it will take time to adjust. The important thing is that the games have rhythm; at the beginning, it will be complicated, but there are plays that require it.

The great thing about football is that it's so fast, there are so few interruptions.

Ronaldo leaving would seem to have ended the competition between Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo because people rarely mention one without mentioning the other. A lot of people are interested - me, too - to see how it will affect Real Madrid's football and what they might do in the transfer market.

I think it's something each team has to decide on, but I think the guard of honour is supposed to be a way of paying tribute to the opposing players.

I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.

Historically, Barcelona win La Liga when they win the Champions League.

It's true that Coutinho played on the centre because sometimes Messi likes playing on the right side. If that happens, we have to readjust a bit.

Messi always gets us out of trouble, and we're not going to apologise for having him.

When Messi plays the ball, everybody expects many things from him. Sometimes it's too much because we have to let Messi breathe a bit.

Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.

What I'd most highlight about Leo Messi is his huge sense of responsibility for the team. It shows in every game in every competition.

Messi is just extraordinary.

I would like to have an assortment of words, but what can I say about Leo? He is breaking all the records, and those he will still beat. He makes the public always expect something special from him, and he delivers it.

During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.

A derby is always special.

I know the names of possible signings get fans excited, but it's a very fleeting kind of excitement.

Dembele is a player who has been playing regularly, from the bench or the start, and he has quality. When he comes off the bench, he can change a game, and that's a quality that is undervalued in football. Not everybody has that quality.

Just as I don't like it when other coaches question my squads and my line-ups, I won't talk about others.

Dembele has things that nobody else in the squad has - self-confidence, one against one, shooting with both feet, personality.

Atletico is a rival who will never give up.

There's no problem with a guard of honour in any way.