When the balloon bursts, the ideal situation is the recovery team is under it,

I don't want to get into a situation like 2002 when we picked the team so early and then some players got hot later and we got criticized,

I never discount the team part of the tournament. You just never know when you get in that situation.

He had a bad situation when he was in Sacramento. He didn't have a very good team. Since he's been here, he's had his team playing well. They play together and they play hard. He knows what he's doing.

I said that my ideal situation was to start the season in the Real Madrid first team and if not I would prefer to return to Liverpool,

You always want to start, ... The situation here with this offense is ideal for me.