MILAN – Suso spoke exclusively to the Milan Channel earlier today. Here were the Spaniard’s comments:

“The week has started on an enthusiastic note I think. This weekend we have an important match. I hope to feature. I train hard and I am always available, but I know there can be some periods in which you play less. I’ve improved following my arrival at Milan, I knew that the Spanish and English leagues would be different to the Italian one. I just needed time to adapt. Now I know the club, the Italian league and my team-mates. It’s a nice group, I get on with everyone. I get on well with Van Ginkel who is more or less my age and with whom I speak in English. We have to work intensely, it will be a hard match against Palermo, we have to prepare for it well. We shouldn’t focus too much on Palermo, but more on ourselves and find the right concentration levels. We want to come away with a good result. The future can be bright but I am thinking about the present. I want to feel like an important player here.”

MILAN – Rino Gattuso, speaking on the weekly programme Radio Anch’io Lo Sport on Radio Rai, had this to say about Milan:

“After 25 years or so, a negative moment can happen, the Berlusconi family have invested a lot, they’ve won a lot, but what leaves me a bit perplexed is that I don’t see a plan, it’s all done one day to the next. Milan have spent many years at the top, it might be a period of decline but they need to be clear. Negative seasons can happen, but the important thing is to be clear with the fans.”

On the coach: “It’s normal that when you’re young and they ask you to coach Milan that you can’t say no. But I think it was a hurried move on both sides, a bit like my experience at Palermo. You might have been a great player, but coaching is a different job, it’s very complicated, you need to get practical experience and even if we were top players and won a lot you need experience, you have to move around, stay up to date, be out on the pitch.”

Closing comments: “I know more about football now as a coach but I have to learn a lot more, I’ve chosen a different path because I know that I want to do this job and I know that I have to gain a lot more experience. My next job? I only know that I have to choose well, because I’ve had two and a half troubled years. I hope to find a project because I don’t work anymore for money but for the passion and I hope to find a club that has a project and that allows me to work in peace.”