@sport 🔄 (ILAIX): After a period of negotiations, the club ended the talks and gave Ilaix 3 options. #FCB 🇪🇸
• Accept the latest renewal proposal, find a club that pays a €15M transfer fee, or go back to the subsidiary and watch from the stands until next summer.
🎙️| Hansi Flick in the press conference before the game against Sevilla tomorrow.
🗣️: "What I can say is that Sevilla has good dynamics. They like to play with the ball, have possession and we will have to control it." #FCB
🎙️| Flick on Lamine Yamal.
🗣️: "The focus is on tomorrow's game. We're going step by step. It's an important game and we'll start with the 11 who are in the best shape. That's our idea. One more day, the treatments he's had have gone well for his recovery. It was a good decision by the coach to let him rest and he's ready."
🎙️| Flick on whether Szczęsny will play tomorrow.
🗣️: "It's fine for him to say he's ready, but there's no reason for Iñaki Peña not to play."
🎙️ Flick spoke in the press conference before the match against Monaco
🗣️: I think our idea when we started here was to play well. I think we've done well and we'll see what the intensity is like, how they press... so far it's going well. When I arrived I realised that there were players with a lot of quality, with players who were 15 years old and are now 16, we were incorporating international players and it's becoming more and more evident. We can give them the philosophy of how we want them to play, but in the end it has to happen on the pitch, and the latest results have been good, they are very stable and this is our key to success for now.
🎙️ Flick on Dani Olmo's replacement
🗣️: "Dani has his own quality on the ball, in front of goal and the confidence to shoot. We'll see, I hope we can continue playing at the same level without him."
🎙️ Flick on the Fernández cousins
🗣️: "I also talked about them in my first answer. They started at 15 and are now 16. It's amazing how La Masia makes them develop and perform. When we need a player, we know we can find him at La Masia. I have no doubt that they will play very well."
🎙️ Kounde spoke in the press conference before the match against Monaco on the team
🗣️: The team understands very well what the manager wants. There is a new dynamic, his staff is very on top of things and everyone does their job very well, starting with the forwards, who press very well. That gives us extra confidence and we all want to do it. That allows you to score goals and win games.
🎙️ Kounde on season objectives
🗣️: "When you start this competition the objective is to win it, we know it is very difficult, a competition with a new format, to which we will have to adapt because there will be more games, but the objective must be to compete. Last year we finished in the quarterfinals and this year we want more."
🎙️ Kounde on number of matches
🗣️: I agree with everything Rodri said. The calendar is getting longer every year, there are more matches every year, less time to rest. Nobody pays attention to us, the main protagonists, which are us, the players. The coaches have also asked for it. The only thing left for us to do is to go on strike. There are more and more injuries because there is less time to rest and more matches or tournaments, like now the Club World Cup, with which 70 matches per season can be reached.
🗣️:" We are working on strengthening La Masia as the base of our sporting project. This is thanks to the members. What they have given us is emotional stability, otherwise it would have been impossible to save the club . The attacks will continue, especially when we are doing well. Now the 'Negreira case' is coming up again and it cannot be supported anywhere. There is also a debate that the team is supported by the club, a sterile debate. Those who have supported Barça have always been the members, because Barça is theirs and they love it. We have held on and we are winning. We are better off economically, socially and sportingly. The destabilisers from outside will have to work hard to make us falter. The president and the board of directors receive criticism and we accept it in order to improve, but we reject the proclamations to destabilise Barça. We are stronger than ever, with more determination to complete the recovery of Barça."
🎙️ Joan Laporta continues
🗣️: "what we are doing is saving Barça in the shortest possible time and without putting our future and association model at risk. We are also building the Spotify Camp Nou, which is almost a reality. It is a collective dream of Barcelona fans. We have done it with the support of Barça members. We have come out of this dead end. I want to say that we are very happy with the coach we have. La Masia has an impact on the first team, it is the backbone of our sporting project. We are very satisfied with Deco's work. Thanks to him we have Flick. He has done a great job in renewing the club's youngsters. The good understanding that Deco and Alexanko have made has led us to this. Another of Deco's merits is the creation of the squad and the restructuring of the sporting structure. Deco and his team, with Bojan and Enric, have done an extraordinary job in registering players. An extraordinary job has been done that I want to recognise. He is the architect of the signings of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor."
🎙️ Laporta on return to Spotify Camp Nou
🗣️: "Everything is going according to plan to host matches at the end of the year. We don't want to set exact dates, but we are convinced that this is a reality. Everything indicates, despite the obstacles, that we will be able to play by the end of the year. This keeps us hopeful. We will achieve positive results on a regular basis. By being in Montjuïc we have stopped earning 100 million euros, so the interest in returning is maximum."
🎙️ Hansi Flick spoke in the press conference ahead of the match against Real Valladolid.
🗣️: "It's always better to win. We've done well in the first three games so far. Valladolid is a good team and defends well, but we know how to attack. It will be a difficult game."
🎙️ Flick on transfer market
🗣️: "I don't focus on that. I signed to be the coach here and I know what we have. I'm happy with the team. We did very well against Rayo. We'll miss Bernal a lot. It's surprising how he learned to play in our system. What he's done is incredible and now we have to replace him with the team we have."
🎙️ Flick on Eric
🗣️: "Yes, I can confirm that he will continue. His natural position is centre-back, but it's good to have players who can play in several positions. You have to adapt and it's good to have players like Eric or Rapha up front who can play in other positions. Eric will have to play more as a central midfielder."
🎙️ Hansi Flick spoke in the press conference before Rayo Vallecano match on Dani Olmo registration
🗣️: "I always have hope, I was hoping for him for the last game too. It would be great to have him for tomorrow's game."
🎙️ Flick continues on Olmo
🗣️: "These are things that neither the player nor the team can control. We talked about the situation, we know it's a difficult situation here in Barcelona. I believe in the club and I hope we can register him for tomorrow's game. Any player who can't play is obviously not happy. But he knows why it's like that. I'm sure that if he's on the list he'll be 100 percent fit."
🎙️ Flick on what needs to improve
🗣️: "I think I said it at the last press conference: We are very satisfied with what the team is doing on the pitch. The quality of the training sessions is good, they are very focused, the intensity is good... and that can be seen in the matches. If you only train at 80 percent it is impossible to give 100 percent in the matches. We analyse every match to improve in each match."