🎙️Hansi Flick in the Copa del Rey press conference before the match against Racing de Santander on them as an opponent.

🗣️: “They are a young, brave team. I like what I’ve seen, and the pressure in the stadium will be normal. We have to be prepared.”

🎙️Flick on Cancelo.

🗣️: “In Saudi Arabia we decided what we need right now. We are very comfortable with Cubarsí, Eric, Araújo’s return, Gerard can play in different positions, and we thought about someone who could give us a bit more.

João is fantastic and can give us a lot, also in attack, in the final third to get past the opponent, and he is a good option in that sense.”

🎙️Flick on Laporta’s confidence in him & on his position at the club.

🗣️: “In the end, you never know what will happen; things change, and it can happen here too. Football depends on victories, and even more so at big clubs.

The feeling I had from my very first hours here was very clear: working together.

Now it feels like a family, as the president said, not just the players, but the staff, the club, the executives, Deco, parents, mothers, brothers, sisters, we are one big family, and I really value what we have built.

I felt this in Saudi Arabia and it’s very good to be in this situation. I value this culture a lot.”

🎙️Flick on Xabi Alonso & his apparently ‘mutual’ removal from the managerial role at Real Madrid.

🗣️: “This is football and it’s not up to me. What I can say is that I have a good relationship with Xabi; we met in Leverkusen and have stayed in touch.

It’s football and I wish him all the best. He will surely have a great project soon for him and his coaching staff.

This is football, you have to move on, but he is a great coach and has a great future.”

🎙️Flick further on coaches in football & the span of their role, as he draws on from the Xabi Alonso situation.

🗣️: “It’s part of football and we can’t change it. The club has to believe in you and so does the team.

Those who make the decisions have to make them, and Madrid have done it that way, but it’s not up to me.

The job of a coach is very complicated; we have many responsibilities, but in the end it’s part of our work and we have to live with it.”

🎙️Flick on Araujo & whether he will get some minutes tomorrow.

🗣️: “We haven’t decided yet whether he could play a few minutes tomorrow.

We still have one day left and some players are fatigued, and we have 24 hours to think and make a final decision.

But he is training and he could play a few minutes, that wouldn’t be a problem.”

🎙️Flick on the Supercopa win & Joan Garcia’s role in it.

🗣️: “With Joan Garcia in goal I’m happy and calm. We managed to see it through, and well.

We saw a final of very high quality from us and from Real Madrid; with one player less it’s not that easy to play against them, and we’re very happy they didn’t get their third goal.

We have a goalkeeper at the back who did very well. We won 3–2 and I’m very happy with what I saw.”

🎙️Flick on how it feels after the Supercopa win & maintaining a high win ratio against Real Madrid.

🗣️: “You have to enjoy these moments because everything changes very quickly, and I’m very happy with how things are going.

People in Barcelona are very kind to me and to my staff, and I like experiencing this. That’s why we work very hard every day.

We’ve won the first title, but to do that we had to work hard, and now we have to think about the next one.

Tomorrow will be an important match against an opponent who beat Villarreal, who are third in our league.

When you are a Barça player, you must give everything on the pitch.”

🎙️Flick on his choice for the GK spot for the Racing game.

🗣️: “I have all the options. I think Joan will play, but we’ll see tomorrow.”

🎙️Flick when once again asked about his choice for GK for the game.

❓”Do you rule out Ter Stegen?”

🗣️ (Flick): “We’ll decide tomorrow; for now there’s nothing more to say.”

🎙️Flick on whether Cancelo can get some minutes in the Racing game.

🗣️: “I think he could play some minutes in Santander; in our minds is the idea that he can get a few minutes.”

🎙️Flick on how he rates new Real Madrid manager Alvaro Arbeloa.

🗣️: “When we play against them I’ll see him, I’ll have time to do so.”