Bojan: We Are 100% Ready

"It does not matter which teams we have drawn because we will go into every game in the same manner," said the young goal machine on Barca’s CL draw this week. "The squad have a strong desire to really achieve something this season."

Pep Guardiola will place great faith in the youth product this season, having let Ronaldinho and Giovanni Dos Santos leave Camp Nou this summer, but Bojan remains humble and eager to continue his education. "I am a young player and, just like last year, I hope to continue to have the confidence of the coaches".

Krkic went to describe how being a first team player at Barcelona aged just18 "a privilege".

Bojan is clearly aware of the expectation, and that his achievements in the last campaign must be consigned to the record books. "I think that last [season] was very good for me, but that is now in the past. Everything is new and we all have to start from scratch. I need to take advantage of the minutes I am given this term."

And finally, as one would expect, a confident but diplomatic response concerning the question of La Liga favourites, and the main rivals to Barca in 2008/2009: "It is impossible to choose a favourite. All I know is what things are like here and that we are 100 per cent ready for the start of the league season."

Los Cules kick off their season on Sunday evening with a David and Goliath derby clash, away to newly-promoted and Barcelona-based side Numancia.