All the English teams are fighting to try and get him to return there, but we are delighted with him.

The club needed a change. We're not in the best shape. We had tried changing coaches several times and that didn't seem to work, so the only other option left was for me to leave.

Garcia Remon will be here the whole season and we hope for many more,

I think our honorary president is going to stay with us for a long time to come.

I really enjoyed the first four years. It was the happiest stage of my life but everything went wrong after Camacho quit. He showed he was a Madrid supporter but he left the club less affected than me.

I must repeat that my policy is to try to sign the best player in the world in every position where we do not already have that. Patrick Vieira is, in my opinion, the best in the world in his position,

The confusion that day was because we considered winning the league as normal. We were so confident and convinced we were best. The day this confusion hit us we stopped winning. We need to stop being confused and that's why I'm leaving.

The voice of the Real Madrid members has been expressed clearly and emphatically,

It will become a symbol of the club, and will be the base from where we work day by day to continue being the most important club in history,

Never, never, never, never. Nothing, never, never, never. Not now. Not ever.