Guardiola on schedule congestion and need for bigger squads
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00:00 Hi Pep, the European Super Cup next week and the World Club Cup,
00:08 when you talked about it just then you sounded a bit annoyed that you're playing in these competitions
00:13 because it's extra games, would you rather not play them?
00:16 I love it, I love it to play the European Super Cup and even the Community Shield,
00:25 first because it was a club we never won it, this club never won the European Super Cup and of course
00:31 to play the World Cup you have to win the Champions League, so
00:35 win the Champions League gives you this opportunity and it's a pleasure to go to Athens and
00:40 play there, absolutely not, I love it, I love it, we like it.
00:45 Okay and just talking about, I think you've talked about this and players definitely have about this
00:50 season about maybe games going to 100 minutes, isn't that only happening because players and
00:57 managers time waste during games to sort of try and save the result and so therefore it's actually
01:03 down to the players and managers themselves that they're having to extend games and if you think
01:07 about it logically, does this then mean that 100 minute games are going to be time wasted and then
01:11 you have to go to 110 minutes and so the actual issue is kind of with great people like yourself
01:16 and the players who have sort of caused this? I told my team, we are not a team, like I'm not
01:24 saying that the last one or two minutes left where we were in 2-1-1-0 I'm going to the corner to
01:28 Bernardo keep the ball to waste the time, we're going to do it but I'm not thinking it's a team
01:32 like we're going to waste time for my career, that's the point, if you want to control it make
01:37 it like basketball, stop the white 8 minutes last game and not 12. 0-1-4, I don't know exactly what
01:50 happened, it was one goal and it was a four or five substitutions, it was not injured like the
01:55 first half, Odegaard was down, I don't know, it was 8 minutes, 10 minutes, it's okay we're going
02:03 to play the 10 minutes, it's the same like I said before, so they decide 10 minutes, 10 minutes,
02:07 we're going to do it, but if you want it make it, Ode, stop.
02:11 Yeah because in this 10 minutes you're going to waste time too, so it's natural way, it's not
02:25 the issue but it's the same when the Premier League decide that for the World Cup or for the
02:31 International, I don't know who's the reason why, they want to do it and play every game 100 games,
02:36 sorry 100 minutes or 105 minutes or 110 minutes, so we're going to play 105 minutes, 110 minutes,
02:43 what can we do? So now I have to use it, so guys we're in 90 minutes, you have to know mentally
02:48 they still have 10 minutes, in 90 minutes you have to keep going playing, you have to still
02:52 playing, you have to attacking or defending better, it depends on the circumstances,
02:57 you know, but of course for the teams like play every three days in competition, real competitions
03:02 travel and extend because at the end with 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, every game is
03:07 like you are going to play three more games at the end of the season, we're going to play 41 games,
03:11 this is not 38, 41 that's for sure, so it is a lot with all the games because I said many times
03:18 our players, I defend my players when I'm going international break, they go to the national team
03:22 and they play 100 minutes, 100 minutes and I said okay you play 50, 60, 70 games, it's okay,
03:30 but after you have two months off or have three months off or you have time to recover mentally,
03:34 but it's not the case, we have just two, three weeks and it's not enough for that and next
03:40 season World Cup is two more weeks, finish the season, the Champions League final or FA Cup final
03:46 is two more weeks in the United States of America to play there, they finish I would say maybe mid
03:51 of July, on 5 August is played the Community Shield, the first game of the season, how are you
03:55 going to rest to the players and for that we have to do, we have to be 40 players and for the players
04:01 in sustainable for the clubs, because the salaries are so high, it's impossible to in the long term to
04:07 do it because it's with what is the society I think so, no, it's more time, it's more quantity,
04:14 quantity, more minutes, more everything, no, I have to be the opposite,
04:20 make 30 minutes and 30 minutes and extend 10 minutes, go to the quality, otherwise the players
04:26 at the end will be difficult, but for them it doesn't matter, but for them the players are
04:31 numbers, they are treated as numbers, if it's not the player, will be another one, if it's not this
04:36 player, will be another one, if it's not this manager, will be another one, what is the problem?
04:41 It doesn't matter and they are more and the players need and everyone needs,
04:48 the people need to go to the theatre, the cinema, to go to the parks, to go to the gardens, to do
04:53 other things that all the time football, football and when you arrive be nice, you know, but it's
05:00 not going to change that for sure because it's getting worse, you know, start that more games,
05:04 more games and more on that. When Manchester United completed the treble, they've said since
05:13 that they felt the standards dropped the following season because of the intensity
05:17 of what they've achieved and the effort it took, do you think it's inevitable at that?
05:22 It's a good question, I didn't, what happened? When Manchester United won the treble the following
05:27 season, what happened? They felt that their standards dropped a bit because of the intensity
05:31 of what, even though they won the title again, because of the intensity of what they've gone
05:35 through, is that inevitable? But won the title? Yeah, but they still won the title, but they felt
05:42 that overall. Yeah, they've said that. Yeah, it's inevitable, yeah, a little bit, a little bit,
05:48 yeah, we try to avoid, you know, as much as possible but yeah, it's inevitable.
05:54 So what else we can do better, you know, we won the quadruple years ago, now we're the treble in
06:02 Europe, so yeah, what else? You have the European Cup we didn't win it before, we have the Saudi
06:07 Arabia World Cup we didn't do it before, but what else? So it's not the motivation, it's not the
06:13 targets, the Premier Leagues or this kind of things, it's, okay, Barley, we can do in football-wise or
06:20 the way we play, do it something, you know, do it better individually, but in terms of that,
06:28 it's difficult to find right now when it's 11 months to leave the trophies, when we have two
06:34 or three months left to leave the trophies possible, challenge after, okay, we can talk about
06:39 that, but now, big mistake thinking about trophies and titles, big mistake after that we've done,
06:45 to do in specific football, what do you have to do to win tomorrow? No, no, no there, because
06:52 we won five, you know, and another one, yeah, would be nice, yeah, that's good, but nothing
07:00 changes much, it's the way we play it, you know, and take the motivation individually to enjoy
07:05 playing football, to enjoy being here, in everywhere, to prove ourselves, and if we are able to maintain
07:10 the level and close to the other contenders to arrive until the end, I have to fight,
07:15 like we have done all the time.
07:17 Hi Pep, at the start you said it feels like last season ended just yesterday,
07:26 how have you been able to kind of switch off this summer, and do you get the sense that the players
07:31 have kind of been able to switch off? Many players ask me, give me more days, Pep, give me more days
07:36 off to come back later, I said I can't, I have to go to Asia, to prepare a little bit, but the club
07:43 needs, you know, to pay our salaries, and after we have a competition already, so we have to come
07:49 back earlier, so it's normal, it was so demanding last season, so demanding, right when we arrived
07:55 was, you know, one more game would not be possible, so now after two, three weeks we are here again,
08:02 start again, you know, and it's not much, but the players went to the national team,
08:06 you know, went to the play, to the national teams, and said, yeah, but not just you,
08:12 all the other players, they had two weeks off, you know, before, so it's a lot, it's a lot,
08:20 but you had that feeling, but you have to recharge ourselves, to challenge ourselves, and behave,
08:25 I don't have any doubts in the kids, because what I saw against Arsenal, and the training sessions
08:31 every day, even the games in Asia, it was really good, really, really good, but I don't know how much
08:36 we'll sustain, you know, for 11 months this situation, I don't know, I don't know, because
08:42 I've been before in Barcelona, but a long time ago, and but the Spanish league is not so demanding,
08:48 like it is this one, and I don't know it's going to happen. You also said that you told the players
08:54 to forget about last year, about the achievements that you did, how important is that for them to
09:00 kind of move on? No, no, I don't want them to forget what they achieved, I said at the previous
09:05 conference before coming to Chile, I don't want them to forget what they achieved, I should do it,
09:09 they have to know, we have to, we were up there, now we're down, and start again,
09:16 is do it, yeah, when we arrived here, the the century was completely different, to build
09:21 something, to create something, I wasn't expected to do five Premier Leagues in seven years, honestly,
09:28 and the people say, ah, without the Champions League, will not be enough, okay, now we have it,
09:32 what's next? So, next next is Burley, being what they do, what they have to try to,
09:40 here, one hour away to do, and after enjoy all the group, with the people enjoy this Europe event,
09:46 for the Super Cup, and yeah, and no more than that, I'm not going to promise you, never done it, but
09:53 thinking, oh, I have to win the Premier League, or no, it's far, far, it's too far, many things
10:01 is going to happen, many things, in Lebanon, but not just city, all the clubs will be up and down,
10:07 and just to see after, like your colleague said, and a bit about maybe we fell down, not too much,
10:12 not too much, we're going to drop, that's for sure, that's for sure, it's not drop too much,
10:17 to stay there, stay there, stay there, close to the our rivals, that I had the feeling will be up
10:22 front of us, being there, being there, and try to, at the last four, five, six months, okay, let's do
10:28 what we have done every single season, and the moment we should do it, we did it, and I don't
10:36 want to do it now, now is not drop much, this is my feeling.
10:40 Time for two more guys, one from me and one from Mike, please.
10:42 Hi Pep, a lot of your players when they come here, they show a sort of improvement in the
10:47 second season, like it almost takes them a year to get used to the way you do things,
10:52 obviously in the case of Erling Haaland, it would be difficult for him to score more goals,
10:56 but are you looking for improvements, do you expect improvements in other areas,
10:59 and if so, what areas of his game do you see improvements coming?
11:02 No, I would say that Erling didn't need the second season,
11:06 and need maybe one competition game to realise, no more than that, I will advise him don't put
11:15 too much pressure and market about the goals and so on, so what I would say to Erling,
11:20 come back at your best, because he's 1.90m, I don't know how tall he is,
11:26 and try to, you know, your best, physically, mentally, if you score fine, if you don't score
11:34 fine, try to improve in your details, in your quality, in your skills, in the spaces where you
11:42 can be a better player, and if the team is going to help you, to give you as much chances as
11:48 possible to score goals, this is what you have to do, I don't want Erling to score 50 or 60,
11:55 so try to be happy as it was last season, relax and try to get back your best,
12:03 after holidays, after last year, still needs a little bit of time, so every training better,
12:09 every game you play, play demanding yourself to make the efforts, and after the goals, as he knows,
12:16 we'll come alone, we'll come naturally, don't force it, but we have to do something, him and
12:23 everyone, to make the situation happen, we cannot wait, we have to do something,
12:29 we have to do something to the chances, to defend well, to score goals, not concede,
12:35 save, we have to do something to make it happen.
12:39 New regulations from the referees on managers, Mikel got a yellow card, maybe for not very much
12:49 last week, do you think it's inevitable you'll receive a red card at some point?
12:56 Me?
12:57 This is the only title I don't have here in England,
13:03 this is the only one, listen I understand the referees, but sometimes we behave really,
13:10 really bad in front of the referees, and I had the feeling always that when we review after,
13:18 we feel ashamed, and the other side is,
13:22 we have to control it, but the emotions is there, and if we cannot celebrate,
13:33 we can actually say, what happened, and it would be so annoying, you know,
13:38 you're in there like this all the time, we have nothing, anything, it's not nice either.
13:43 I remember the first season, maybe you remember, the first season when I arrived,
13:46 it was a rule of the referees that every single touch is a penalty, I remember the first game
13:52 away in Stock City, there, like Mark Hughes was there, my colleague, and it was a two penalties,
13:59 like a penalty, and after a month or two months it changed, you know, now I understand that,
14:06 that it's a sensitive, we behave most of the time really bad in front, and we have to improve that,
14:13 but at the end, hopefully, we can find the balance, you know, as much you make something,
14:18 and not over the gesture already, the people, you know, can, can behave, but now we know,
14:24 now I know every time we're going to talk, will be yellow card, and every moment that will be
14:28 yellow card, now we know it, so we have to adapt, and accept the consequences, and hopefully,
14:33 at the end, we can arrive at the moment that we can talk to the referees, the referees can talk
14:39 with us, we can talk with four officials, or officials can talk with us in, in a normal way.
14:43 Thank you guys.
14:45 Okay, thank you.