Sid Lowe

He was thinking, you know what, let them talk.

And remember that comment that he said, which came back to bite him a little bit around the time of the classical, when he'd said that, he'd made that remark about how people can talk.

And for as long as I'm winning, they can't say anything to me.

And the problem is, of course, as soon as you don't win, then those people will be waiting.

And I think that, again, and that feeds into his own mindset, not everything else.

It's just like, you know, if I'm not playing well, then yeah, this kind of noise, I actually realise now that this isn't fun.

But as you say, it's about getting back to that fun thing.

And that comment he made today about wanting to be the person that just enjoy playing football.

And as you say, when he's playing well, now I can't say for sure how much he enjoys it, although talking to Mo Yodens there, he was saying that he did.

but we enjoy it.

And maybe there's a bit of us that just sort of take a step back and say, you know, thanks.

Thanks because it's a lot of fun.

Yeah, they do.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think everybody knows that.

You talk about the quality of Lumi and Jamal.

We talked a lot, obviously, when we analysed them tactically about the high line, but it's about Pedri who keeps the game flowing the way they want it to be.

There was a really interesting interview, actually, Dan, this Saturday in one of the Spanish papers with Comisanya, the Villarreal midfielder, and he talked about how the thing with Barcelona is that, yes, you know there's a high line, but it's all about whether you can escape the pressure to be able to play that pass and all about whether you can get onto the ball enough to be able to play that pass.

And that Pedri is a key reason why you can't.

Now, we look at Pedri and we look at the gloriously smooth touch that he's got.