He reiterated his determination to keep Alonso, saying 'we don't need to sell him to buy new players, but even if we did have to sell we would sell other squad members'. On Babel he slipped in a 'you never know for sure what happens' but did talk about wanting to see him show more of his potential for us next season. He was interesting on how calculated the 'facts' conference was and how he expected the reaction because 'I knew Mr Ferguson has good friends in the press'. His kidney stone operations sounded really bad, putting him out of action for longer than it seemed at the time and admitting that, as he'd never had an op before in his life the whole thing shook him out quite a bit. He was candid about how gutted he was at the Boro performance, but how he feels he and the team learnt from it. They're showing the OT win at present...