- Valverde: "The Clásico? It was a great game for us, both the final score and how it fell, I think it made Christmas even happier. Now I have to prepare for the year to come."
- Valverde: "The month of January is going to be intense, we need to prepare."
- Valverde: "This is a team that's very competitive, the players are fully committed to competing, they're winners. You can see that, you can see it when they train and play games."
- Valverde: "FC Barcelona players are different; with different characteristics and we all have to adapt. Me as a coach have to adapt to them. Dembélé was a player with specific characteristics that at the time we lacked."
- Valverde: "We have a deep team, and luckily we had the players to step in for Dembélé and in fact they've done pretty well."
- Valverde: "It's true that in that moment [moment when Dembélé got injured] it was tough to take, above all for him because he's a young player and with all the attentions surrounding his signing, who knows whether that played a role in his injury."
- Valverde: "We have to have the ball and we have to generate scoring chances through that possession."
- Valverde: "It's true that when we don't have the ball we organize us in a certain way, but it's also true that when we do have the ball we organize o
- Valverde: "When we have the ball everybody becomes an attacker and when we don't have the ball everyone becomes a defender. It's kind of like what happens in basketball."
- Valverde: "Our intentions are always to try to win the game from the very first minute, I don't have any doubt about that. I don't believe in waiting to see how the game goes."
- Valverde: "Messi is the best player you can possibly find in the world. He's a player who can take anything and make it extraordinary. Whatever ball he touches, he's just an absolutely incredible teammate and we're incredibly lucky to have him."
- Valverde: "We see how Messi approaches competing, his level of competitiveness, his commitment to the team and the club, he motivates all of us."
- Valverde: "I place a lot of importance on the players and especially the forwards having a lot of contact with the ball. So what if they miss chances? I want them to have those chances, goals will be scored."
- Valverde: "Suárez? Get him the ball as much as you can because he's going to put them in the net."
- Valverde: "I haven't worried about Suárez because I saw him getting chances, he may or may not have been on target, but it was just a question of time and in the end it's exactly what happened."
- Valverde: "Paulinho is a player with a different style from what we had in the team. He's something else, he's a player who perhaps moves around a little bit more. He surprises teams by getting into their penalty area."
- Valverde: "Of course he [Paulinho] is incredibly effective, but above all because he has a lot of faith. He follows the play a lot, both on attack and defense. He really helps out at the defensive end and he seems to really understand Messi in the final third."
- Valverde: "Gap with Real Madrid? We are not thinking about it, we have to move forward, we don't have to look at anything else."
- Valverde: "We'd like to win it all wouldn't we? That's what we'd love to do, but we haven't won anything yet. What I want, is for the team to keep the faith."
- Valverde: "I am delighted with the players we have, but we are always open to improvement."
- Valverde: "Neymar's departure was a difficult moment for the team, it greatly affected the environment."
- Valverde: "Playing behind closed doors on October 1st? It was a very strange situation."
- Valverde: "The B-team? I especially pay attention to certain players who could serve us well. Nowadays, these players are Aleñá, Arnáiz and Oriol Busquets."
