Álvaro 
Internalising his idea of the game
"I am very grateful to the players for how they have received us and how they have had the interest and involvement to want to understand what we want from them, practically without being able to work on the pitch. No matter how much we explain to them what we want and how much we teach them, when a football player really gets to internalise what a coach wants is on the pitch and it is by training together. That's what we're lacking right now: hours of training, getting to know each other and working. That's what we're going to have ahead of us, what we're looking forward to and I'm very confident that things will go well. We're going to get to the level we want, we're going to understand each other, players and coaching staff. Above all, our main objective is to get the best out of this great squad."
 
Finding the right level
"We are thinking about the Rayo game. We are aware of how difficult the game is and how demanding a team like Rayo is going to be for us. We also saw it in the first leg. That's what we're focused on: finding that high level again, continuing to improve, working and knowing that everyone's performance, on a general and individual level, needs to be very high to win every game. It's not just us but any team in the world today if they want to win a game; they have to be at a very high level both collectively and individually. That's our goal.”
 
Learning from defeats
"Regret is a dead end. I always try to learn from mistakes and failures, as they say. That's the most important thing, when things don't go well, to learn. That's my way as a coach; to try to know where I can improve and where I haven't got it right. Obviously, I'm the first one to tell the players that I'm going to make mistakes. I'm sure I will make many mistakes because I have to make a lot of decisions. But every decision I make will be for the good of the team. That's what I always do and that's what I will continue to do."
 
Message to the group
“I understand that you would like to know, but that's between me and the group.”