Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez says he's determined to shutout the hype buzzing around him.

Fermin has enjoyed a breakthrough this season and is well aware of the stories he's generating.

He told Sport:" Well, it's not easy because, in the end, there are many external factors that can influence you to not have that discipline or those feet on the ground, as they say.

"But I think that my father, my family, have never been like that and I don't think that will ever, ever happen to me, otherwise my father will be there to give me a hard time.

"I'd like to be in the first team, to continue here. The more years the better. I hope I can always be here, but well, you never know. It's the best club in the world and every year the best come here. You never know."