🚨 Xavi Hernández: "I think the Araújo play decided the tie. With 11 v 11 we were well organized." Xavi: "What we've worked for all season is ruined by a referee's decision. I told him that he's been very poor, a disaster."

🚨 Live thread: Lionel Messi's exclusive interview with SPORT and Mundo Deportivo. 🚨 Messi: "I will not return to Barcelona, I will join Inter Miami."

🚨 Xavi Hernández: "Marcos Alonso needs continuity in the left-back position. Today we wanted to open the left-wing for him so that Ferran could play more centrally. For me, Marcos is a guarantee and he has my absolute trust." Xavi: "We have had a great season, remarkable, but we must strengthen ourselves to compete for all titles. We need two powerful players per position."

🚨🎙️ Xavi Hernández: "Messi has the doors open here. I know that he will help us if he decides to come, but perhaps we have to leave him alone now. He told me that he will make a decision next week. I want him back 100%." @mundodeportivo @mundodeportivo Xavi: "Messi can adapt to many positions. He can play as a winger, he can play as an interior, he can play as a false nine. I think we lack some talent in the final third and Leo always gives it to you."

🚨🎙️ Gerard Piqué: "Jordi, we've had very similar careers. I also left. We have a special relationship, we had some very good times." @FCBtv @FCBtv Piqué: "Alba forgets jokes very quickly, it's not like Busquets. When I fooled him, he wanted to have payback immediately. Busi waited 10-15 days (laughs)."

🚨🎙️ Jordi Alba: "Hello everyone. This is a special day for me, thank you for being here. You gave me the most beautiful moment of my career. Thanks to the socios, fans and everyone else." @FCBtv Alba: "I want to pay tribute to Tito Vilanova today."

🚨🎙️ Ronald Araújo: "Xavi gave the club its hope back, and we’ve learned a lot with him. He's the Barça philosophy that had been lost in previous years: the need to divide, find the third man and all these things that have always been done. We're working on that." @TheAthleticFC @TheAthleticFC Araújo: "In all the exercises he makes us do, we use the ball. It makes sense because in football we play with the ball (laughs). Everything is very dynamic with him, he tries to implement the Barça style: moving it quickly, with one or two touches."

🚨🎙️ Javier Bordas (former board member): "I met Mino Raiola and at a time when we talked about Haaland, for €20m he would have sold him to us. But he wanted €20m commission too. I was just a board member who proposed things." Via @marca @marca 🚨 Bordas: "I was able to bring Courtois. He preferred Barça to Chelsea, but the coaches preferred to sign Ter Stegen and Claudio Bravo."

🚨🎙️ Xavi Hernández: "We wanted Cancelo in January. They offered him to us and we accepted him. In the end they told us that Manchester City didn't want to give him up to Barça." @esport3 Xavi: "Our fans started chanting Leo Messi's name in every game. I like this feeling but believe me, Leo Messi's return depends only on him, for 99%."

Xavi Hernández: "Things are working out. We're eight points clear, but there is a lot left." #fcblive Xavi: "We have generated many chances against a low block, which is important."

Xavi Hernández: "Sevilla are a difficult opponent despite their results. Sampaoli is a great coach and things are going to be difficult for us." #fcblive Xavi: "We need the fans at the Camp Nou tomorrow."

'At champion’s pace' [sport] #fcblive🥇 Barça have finished the first half of the season with 50 points and are proving to be favorite to win LaLiga [sport]

Xavi Hernández: "I'm very happy with the game. We have improved a lot compared to the game against Girona. We played a brilliant game." #fcblive Xavi: "Today it was key not to lose the ball and we minimised just that. We dominated from start to finish."

Frenkie de Jong: "It's a very important win. My contribution for the first goal? There was still a lot to do." #fcblive De Jong: "My best game at Barcelona? I'm not sure. When you're playing a good game people are quick to make such statements."