00:00Talk today and here in Madrid has been about Xabi Alonso and his position.
00:05Do you have sympathy with your opposite number in this match? It's obviously a huge game.
00:10You know what it takes to manage these kind of clubs in this particular competition.
00:15Do you have sympathy with the questioning he's facing ahead of what is a huge game for the club?
00:19Of course, I have sympathy because we were together one year and a half, two years. It was an
00:24incredible experience being with him, not just as a manager. So we share many,
00:31many things, families as well. So Barcelona Madrid are the toughest opponents, the toughest clubs,
00:37I would say, to be a manager. The more difficult ones for the pressure, for the environment. So
00:43last season, I've done last season, I have been sacked six months before the end of the season. So
00:48it's a difficult place, but he knows it. He has been here. He knows the reality. It's a
00:54question of winning games.
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