Mikel Arteta

"Go to San Sebastian, come back and then ask me the question."

"It's probably the passion, the food and the education we all had."

"Look at the top players in the world. They play 70 matches - every three days - and make the difference and win the game."

"We need to increase the competition internally."

"We need to make sure we identify the things that we don't have in the team."

"I think he describes himself as a warrior."

"If we have the right player in the market to make us much better. We are very much looking forward to that."

"No, they don't have to worry about any of that because I want to be here, I'm extremely happy."

"I think because my will certainly is to be here and I'm very happy here."

"It's big that we want to improve the squad, we want to evolve the squad in order to achieve that."

"I think he describes himself as a warrior. I think he's a warrior with a tremendous quality as well and intuition and leadership and charisma that is going to help us."

"Well, he missed five or six months for different things and it was extremely difficult for him to get any momentum."

"It's extremely disappointing. It's a big punch in the face; it's about how we react now."

"Extremely disappointing. It's a big punch in the face."

"It's a big punch to the face. Now it’s about how we react to that, because it’s game on, it’s going to require now a big spirit, a lot of fight."

"There are no gray areas now."

"The fact that as a club we haven’t done it for so long, there's a reason for that, it talks about the difficulty."

"So today we have to suffer, it’s painful, it’s a terrible feeling, but tomorrow is a different day, and if somebody had said to me in August we are in this position right now in April, I’m sure we would all take it."

"It's a big punch to the face. Now it’s about how we react to that, because it’s game on, it’s going to require now a big spirit, a lot of fight."

"There are no gray areas now."

"The fact that as a club we haven’t done it for so long, there's a reason for that, it talks about the difficulty."