On Berardi and Hernandez leaving

"They have been a reference for Leeds, for the team, for the squad, for the fans, two excellent professionals, great team mates. They are footballers who have been very influential, very decisive. Sincerely, throughout the three years, I have had great respect for how they go about their profession and of course football wise they have a lot of ability too. And for the club, we have great sadness that they will no longer be part of the institution."

On fans being at Elland Road at last, for Berardi and Hernandez send off?

"It's a homage that they totally deserve and it's something that 'by chance' that they are being able to play in front of the fans in the last game of the season. It is very good luck that it is this way because it wouldn't have been fair if they weren't able to live that moment."

On top ten finish

"I didn't expect anything in particular. What I am sure of is that the players deserve to get to the placing that they have. This campaign, this performance, it was based on two great capacities. The humane group that they have formed at the club - it is very difficult to be as united on the pitch as they have shown to be without being in a similar way outside of the field. The togetherness within the people within the squad permitted them to produce what they produced, the human factor, the values, the living together, the generosity, the interest of their own but also the interest of their own teammates and the respect and gratitude of the support they have received throughout. The players are the most important thing that happens within a club and the rest of us who are employed by the club are there to attend to their needs so it is very common in professional football that human beings that receive so much attention and dedication that they are not invaded by vanity or overvalued self esteem. This is expressed in the individualism and that happens when someone feels like something happens because of what they have done and it loses sight that everyone is at the service of each one and that each one has to be at the service of the rest. That process for any collective within the squad of Leeds United, it happened in the opposite sense, there were numerous that showed and demonstrated gratitude from the players for everyone who has collaborated with them. I am not referring to the technical staff who have also been very considered with us but to those who accompany them but shine less and that collaborate so that the team can show its potential. Of course it is exaggerated to say that Leeds is a great family because that's not true but it has a structure of that nature and the players have constructed this way of living due to the very marked leadership of some and from the desire of the younger ones to follow the lines of behaviour that have been shown form the older ones. Within a club there are a lot of anonymous people that deserve to be recognised given all that they add to the team. Behind the scenes, the people that make the food, they are a great bunch, you have seen that what the players eat is linked to what they can perform. Who hasn't asked their mother to make their favourite plate for them? And all of us we can remember how we felt when our mums fed us. There is something like this within the club as well and those the most anonymous, those who conserve the cleanliness of here who are here to help us, the ones who look after the pitches, there are a lot of people around the club that have a big emotional connection and the players they remember them, they appreciate them, they have them present and they 'care' for them so all of this we have to be grateful to Pablo and Berardi as well because they have been part of forming that line of behaviour. There's some players who stay and some players that leave but they are all on the same path and Pablo with his behaviour and Berardi with his, they have left their mark, not just on the pitch."

On Allardyce

"The arrival of Allardyce helped the people to visualise with the performance and the results that the team has that you can see clearly in the performances in the team and the way they have competed. And there is nothing better than to watch the production of the team to show the qualities that senor Allardyce has."

Do you have a moment from Berardi and Hernandez that you will always remember?

"In the subject of Pablo and the same in the subject of Berardi, I would have been satisfied had they continued in the squad that I manage. After, there are decisions that each one takes, I can't lose sight of the fact that there is a lot of protagonism due to the natural nature of time, expressed in the lowering of the amount of minutes that they play, but I continue to consider them important. In relation to Berardi who is a player who is a noble competitor, he is a player whose football conditions I value a lot. I think he is a current player that still has years of football in front of him. That's why I also would have valued it had he stayed. For me he is a very complete player and he is a team player, he is a player that can resolve in every defensive position which he has done so and he is very loved by everyone given that he gives everything - the duels with the forwards - they always found him with conditions to overcome them. The example is in the last game after a very long time without having played, he enters after the opponent had been superior to us in the first half and it is a team with important strikers and he collaborates to neutralise the superiority that Southampton had had. Pablo, at the start, he was the right winger of our team and after as an offsenive midfielder and he is a player with a football intelligence that is very, very high. He is a player that finds the ball with a lot of ease and he is a player that can see the movements of the team and then pick the best pass and some technical resources that permit him to be able to do these things that he imagines that he sees. The possibilities of Pablo are not linked to his physical level - that he does have - but due to his intelligence and his experience and apart from that he is a player that always wants the ball and when the the game is easy it is not easy to want the ball all the time but when the game is difficult of course it is a virtue worth having when you want the ball when you don't have a lot of time. This last year of Premier League, I can't ignore that Pablo didn't have the minutes that he would have wanted or that he would have deserved because I think he would have deserved them and I can't ignore that I am responsible that he didn't have more protagonism than he did and I want to take on the responsibility because it is true."

What message for fans that will and won't be there on Sunday

"I think that the achievements of the team has an objective, the happiness of the fans. Other teams also but Leeds especially the public is something that helps to get the achievement so it is a good opportunity for us that is linked to the energy that originates from the fans, especially in the difficulties, the supporters of Leeds ,make themselves present and they add something to help the team. I say what I think even if it sounds demagogy."

Are any other players going on early leave and can we expect many changes to the side?

"Llorente is not with us, throughout the first half at Southampton he felt something in his muscle that if he had continued he could have got injured where he got injured before, that's why we decided that he shouldn't participate in the second half of that game nor on Sunday, Every decision that I have taken I take it thinking of the player and thinking of Leeds United, not thinking in other aspects. I hope that it goes well in the national teams and I hope that as many players as possible from Leeds United participate with their nations but these decisions for Koch and Llorente and Klich, they are not linked to the possibilities that they have with the national team because I have no information about that. The decision of Koch or Klich I had no way of knowing what was going to happen with their national teams and the same in the case of Lllorente. In no way did I want to risk Llorente having another muscular problem as he had a few throughout the season, nor did I want to take the risk of a slight problem in his hip to get worse for Koch and I consider the amount of minutes that Klich played in the last three seasons and the effect that excess of competition produced in him, it made me think that once he had recovered his level he deserved a rest like the one I gave him."