“We’re doing well. We’re the best team in the last 14 games. On one hand, it’s great to see how well we’re doing, on the other hand, there’s the bitterness for how we started. If we could restart the campaign from now, we’d get a Champions League spot for sure but as things are we’re 6 points from Europe. That’s still the objective though.  We have a good team and we’re on an average of 80 points a year. But we’re still behind the other teams and the problem with that is that you can’t afford to lose.”

“Zapata is a formidable player. But we’re also seeing some good French players coming to the fore. I’m happy for Flamini. He has good legs and when you come back from the injury that he had, it takes a year to get back to top shape.”
“We have to keep on going like this. It’s a nice battle between the front pairing of Pazzini and El Shaarawy and that of Cavani and Hamsik. 5 weeks ago it would have been unthinkable to imagine the team where we are now. I think we’re doing even better now than when we had much more resources to call on. We had a tough period at the start but this team can play with anyone in Serie A. Zaccardo’s arrival was linked to the departure of Acerbi. We didn’t make any money by sending him to Genoa as we got the other half of Constant’s signing.”
“As for Balotelli, I’m 99.5% sure he won’t be coming. The market is closed until tomorrow.”

“It was an important game to get back up the table. We knew we’d have to fight and that’s what we did. I always try and give everything I can and work well during the week and do what I can for the team. It’s tough to look at the league table because with only 4/5 points more at the start, everything would be different. We can’t take our eyes off the prize though because when you’re playing catch up, it’s easy to lose heart. I’m happy to be staying here.”

"It’s good to get compliments from Adriano Galliani and I’m very happy. I still have to work on improving though. It was important not to concede, the pitch was very tough to play on and we did well to keep a clean sheet. It’s normal that when the other team goes down to 10 men, you fall back a bit. I really want to win against Udinese and I think we will.”

"It was an important and decisive goal. It was important to get all three points and we’re happy that we did and about the performance as well. Pazzini and I are doing well and we have to continue. Niang is really doing well so credit to him. We’re in the top five and so we have to believe and to keep looking ahead. It’ll be important to win against Udinese.”

"We won, three points from a difficult place to play. It was important to win and credit to all involved as we did it. We’ve been doing big things for the last 2 months and we have to keep on going. We’re all a bit curious to see what may happen in the transfer window.”

“At the moment, I’m very happy with the players I have, they’re doing well and they’re growing. We have to work with them as we’re doing. We’re growing and we need to work n our league position. We canì’t celebrate just yet, we knew about the difficulties we would face at the start of the season. When you play catch up, it’s tough. You can’t win them all but we have to keep the balance that we have and we’ll see where we are on 16 May.”