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Guardiola claims Manchester Utd can have any of City players if they want to leave
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00:00 Good afternoon, guys. Hope you're well. Same process as ever.
00:13 Max on either side. We'll set an embargo part way through for 10.30 this evening.
00:18 Start with Simon, please.
00:21 Hi Pep, hope you're OK. Could you just update us first on Calvin Phillips? We're led to believe that the agreement is there for him to go to West Ham on loan for the rest of the season.
00:36 The club told me it's still not done, but he travelled yesterday to make a medical test. But it's not completely done. But apparently he's going to be on loan for six months.
00:51 Hopefully he can play the minutes he deserves and I can give them to him.
00:56 It's just not happened for him here, has it? It's never appeared as though he could get a regular place in your squad.
01:04 It's what it is. I've said many times he's an exceptional human being. Even a football player, why not be in a national team from the UK?
01:16 Hopefully we can prove what it really is.
01:21 Just on your team selection, it's a couple of weeks since you last played. Is Erling Haaland going to be available?
01:29 He's on the verge to come back. Tomorrow is still not ready, but it's close.
01:36 Training camp was good, he trained some sessions and the last two days he trained. But it's not perfect and we wait a little bit more.
01:47 Hi Pep, just following on from the rest of the team, can you update on some of the other players who have not been with you lately?
01:53 Manokan is out and Jon is coming back. He will be with the team selection, but he's coming back.
02:00 And Ederson, is he okay now?
02:03 He's okay, yeah.
02:04 And also the announcement earlier today about the signing of Claudio Echeverry, can you comment on that at all, please?
02:11 Yeah, the club Alex informed me a few minutes ago that he's done, so congratulations to the Vipar, our club.
02:23 Hi Pep, earlier this year you joked about the next target being scoring away against Spurs.
02:30 Do you understand why the record is so poor there? It's like six games, six defeats and no goals scored.
02:38 Different managers?
02:40 Yeah, that's the reality, how tough it is for us. Of course it's a final, it's a knock at the stage and to go through you have to score goals.
02:49 Otherwise it would not be possible to go through with a team who score goals.
02:53 But always it's a new opportunity to break it. The feeling is most of the times we were exceptional.
03:01 Exceptional is not the right word because we could not win, but we played really good.
03:05 So you see how we played, the stats, I don't really imagine the stats, but the way we behaved and the way we played was good.
03:12 But the reality is that no goals, six defeats, so they are much better than us. We had a minute.
03:20 Does it look like a more dangerous totem now with Ange? When did you like?
03:27 If we were not able to win any game, so we have been dangerous all the time.
03:31 But the way they played is quite a little bit different than the past.
03:35 Hi Pep, can I get your reaction to Omar Barada leaving to join Manchester United?
03:42 How did you find out about it? How much of a big loss is this for City and did you try and convince him otherwise?
03:48 Well, all I can say personally is I wish him all the best and good luck.
03:55 He changed the street, not the city, so he has been an important person for the organisation.
04:02 The right hand from Ferran. But he decided for himself to leave and the club will move forward.
04:11 So the club will find the right way, the right person to move forward and do what he has done.
04:19 Personally I wish him all the best.
04:21 Is there any sense of shock that Man United made a move like this?
04:25 And is there any sense of worry that there might be more of a force to be reckoned with now with Ineos on board?
04:31 I don't know the ideas from Man United. We try to keep the best persons and people here.
04:38 But this kind of happens. When I arrived here eight years ago, especially in this building,
04:46 I came not quite often, just in the press conference. Now I come here and I don't recognise one face.
04:53 Honestly. People change a lot, move to other jobs and people knew he was coming.
05:01 I think the club was so happy with Omar, but he decided for himself to leave.
05:10 The same. All the best.
05:15 Alexander Seferin has spoken about the club's charges for the first time.
05:21 Were you upset with what he had to say, specifically the wordline about UEFA knowing they were right?
05:27 As a lawyer that he is, the president of UEFA, he should wait. Wait.
05:34 And after, do whatever he wants. It was the same thing. He has to sentence about UEFA, he has to respect it.
05:41 He has to wait. He has a lot of job to do in UEFA.
05:48 To be involved in the cases that the lawyers should respect the procedure.
05:53 And after, he knows we have the right to defend ourselves.
05:58 So, only I can say.
06:02 Can I ask you another one on Calvin Phillips as well?
06:06 He was a really popular player here, you obviously have a lot of affection for him.
06:10 When you look back at his time, is there any personal frustration?
06:14 Do you think you could have done something slightly differently to make it work here?
06:17 No, of course.
06:19 If I give him 10, 15 games in a row, he will play good. I didn't give him to me.
06:23 I feel so responsible for that.
06:26 But at the same time, I'm honest with me. I have a disposal of players, a squad,
06:31 and I have to decide what we are looking for, for different things.
06:37 Only I can say, I'm regretful for his behaviour, on and off the pitch,
06:42 in many, many situations.
06:45 Hopefully he can find the minutes, he can come back,
06:49 and next season we'll see what happens.
06:52 Finally, finally, he goes to West Ham.
06:55 There's no one person we don't want.
06:58 We wish him all the best in his short time, four or five months in London.
07:03 Given he was very much a part of the first-team squad,
07:07 he came in for a lot of money, are there any plans to bring in any first-team players?
07:11 I don't think so.
07:13 I don't think so.
07:15 OK, so then Magoff 10, 13, 16, please.
07:19 Hi, Pep, you had six nights in Abu Dhabi,
07:26 how much of a benefit was that to be able to go and do that?
07:30 Really good. You see my tan?
07:33 Kevin obviously had a big influence in his half an hour at Newcastle,
07:39 do you feel like he's ready to start?
07:42 Yeah, he was ready in Newcastle as well.
07:45 But I'm always happy with the process, it's like Sam Erling when he comes back,
07:49 I don't think it's for 90 minutes,
07:52 but of course it's really soon to play from the beginning.
07:56 The most important thing is he trains really, really well in Abu Dhabi,
08:00 and every training session he does as well,
08:03 this is the most important thing, accumulate training sessions,
08:06 recovery sessions, and he's behaving well.
08:09 He has to continue to work on the pitch and off the pitch,
08:12 and what he has to do to prevent more, but yeah, it's good.
08:17 Other than getting a tan, Pep, what did you get up to in Abu Dhabi as a squad?
08:23 No, it's been together, we make dinners together,
08:27 we make good training sessions in a good environment,
08:31 we know quite well the country of our owners,
08:35 they always take care of us really well,
08:37 and we work together, we make some ceremonies, and that's all.
08:42 It was a short time because we play tomorrow,
08:45 otherwise we had to stay one or two more days,
08:48 but it was fine to change a little bit, it was always positive for us.
08:51 The people are fresh, and we came back home.
08:55 In your experience, because obviously you've been there before for similar breaks,
08:59 what kind of impact does that have on the squad,
09:02 you being able to spend that time together?
09:04 The impact is good, but it would be good if we win,
09:07 and the people would say it was not good, because it's just in case we don't win.
09:10 The impact is good, whatever happens from now on, tomorrow's game or in the future.
09:15 In that period, here it's cold, we don't have games,
09:19 we don't have the opportunity.
09:21 Most of the teams, I've heard other teams,
09:23 one has been in Dubai and the other ones,
09:25 it's typical to do it in the past.
09:27 The people take a break when the calendar allows us to do it,
09:31 and that's what we have done.
09:33 Hi Pep, you spoke a few times last season about how well the medical team here
09:37 did with Erling to keep him fit and available every week,
09:40 given the kind of niggling injuries he had at Dortmund.
09:43 Now he's had this problem that's been hard to shake,
09:45 do you have to change the way you manage him?
09:48 Do you think going forward is there a chance now that it could return,
09:51 you have to look at building more rest into him, do you think?
09:54 It's a bone, at the end we thought it was a bit less,
09:58 but at the end it was a little bit of a fracture of the bone,
10:01 and the bone is not a muscular issue that you can do a little bit...
10:04 When you have these kind of injuries, there is a question of time.
10:09 People say between six and eight weeks, it's between six and eight weeks.
10:12 It's not about as much you work, as much you go to Abu Dhabi,
10:17 we'll be short.
10:19 The bone needs time to close, to make it proceed.
10:24 Now it's at the end, I think it will be eight weeks now,
10:30 almost two months, and next weekend, this weekend or next week.
10:36 The process feels good, now he needs time to take the rhythm
10:40 and start to give him minutes when he'll be fit.
10:43 Is that pain that he was feeling in the bone gone now?
10:47 In Abu Dhabi, and here, the last week, ten days, he doesn't feel anything.
10:51 That is a good way.
10:53 When we came back after two or three sessions, he felt a little bit disturbing,
10:58 and that's why we were a little bit cautious,
11:01 after we waited a long time, when in December he could not play for a long time,
11:06 to try to avoid it.
11:09 Now he feels good, and now we give him three or more days,
11:13 and hopefully in Berlin he can play some minutes, first minutes, we'll see.
11:17 How important has Chiqui been to the success of City?
11:22 And for him to stay long-term as well, would that be important for the club?
11:26 A lot.
11:28 If you take a look at all the clubs that have had a big success,
11:34 they have the same hierarchy, the same sport director, managers, for a long time.
11:38 When that happens, in the big clubs you have success.
11:42 To change the sport director, change managers, is more difficult,
11:46 because Bill something, take his time, in the big clubs you have time.
11:55 If they believe in the hierarchy, believe in the sport director, the job,
11:59 and the sport director with the manager, and the manager with the players that have at disposal,
12:03 then you lose a game, that's part of it.
12:05 But you know exactly what you have to do at the end.
12:08 Chiqui has been massively important in this club, before I arrived,
12:12 and was a staple of the club.
12:16 He's been really important in these years,
12:20 as part of the enormous success that we had in terms of results and many things.
12:28 Chiqui has been so important.
12:30 He's been here for so long, is it taken for granted that he will just be here forever?
12:36 Forever? I don't know, it's a question for him.
12:39 I know, always I ask him, come on, help me to take responsibility with the media.
12:45 Sometimes the PR goes there and talks a little bit, but he's so shy.
12:49 He doesn't want behind the scenes, and all the shots and the weapons, it's direct to me.
12:56 He doesn't want once, but it's very easy.
13:01 The same it was in Barcelona, so he likes that position.
13:04 I respect him a lot.
13:07 Apart from being a close friend, we played together in Barcelona,
13:11 so we met each other since 25, 30 years.
13:16 He's more calm and I'm more energetic, so this balance helps us to work perfectly.
13:25 Hi Pep, you spoke earlier about your record away at Tottenham.
13:30 Have you ever had a situation in your career where you've had a ground like that?
13:34 No, but it happened in White Hart Lane, not in this stadium.
13:38 In my opinion, they are an exceptional team, since Maurizio Pochettino was his manager,
13:44 and all the managers always have exceptional players.
13:47 I always think why they are not able to be at the last stages.
13:52 It was in the final Champions League a few years ago,
13:56 but I've been in the Champions League qualification many years,
14:00 so it's a nice stadium, a historical club.
14:02 It's a fantastic club, the players always have the feeling they are really good.
14:08 But when I see and analyse the performance,
14:11 what we create, we'll concede, there were some mistakes and transitions.
14:15 It's quite similar to what happened in our home game here.
14:20 We played really well, but we were not able to win.
14:23 It happened many times, hopefully we can break it.
14:26 We know that before it was in a home away game in the Premier League,
14:30 never played in a Carabao Cup, but in the Champions League we played two games.
14:35 But now it's a fair cup, one game.
14:37 We have to play well to score goals, otherwise we will not continue in this competition.
14:44 In the time since Kevin started again, if you'd known you were going to be without him for that long,
14:52 have you done better than you might have expected for such a long absence?
14:56 The team?
14:58 Since he started.
15:00 The team.
15:01 Without Kevin.
15:02 Without Kevin, yes.
15:03 We are stronger with Kevin, we are stronger with Erling,
15:07 but we can cry and wait five months and we have to move forward,
15:12 and we have done.
15:14 I'm a big fan of 'don't find my chicks' excuses in terms.
15:23 We don't have that situation.
15:24 Okay, what it is?
15:25 I would prefer, honestly.
15:27 But take the benefit, maybe it's cleaner for his mind after playing,
15:32 I don't know how many years, years and years, a lot of games.
15:37 So be fresh and now be positive and he's back and Erling is back soon,
15:43 John as well, and now we start the second part of the season that we know,
15:47 start to play competition.
15:49 So we don't lose games and in the Premier League maybe we don't have time to recover,
15:53 we play and lose games in the Champions League, in the local stage soon,
15:56 around the corner, and in the FA Cup we are out of competition,
15:59 so we know the reality.
16:01 And we travel tomorrow to London to do a good game and try to go through.
16:06 Hi Pep, just on Calvin, is it possible that he goes to West Ham,
16:10 plays a lot of games, plays really well,
16:12 and then comes back here and is more ready to play a bigger role for you?
16:15 Yeah, why not?
16:17 It's not a case that he just happens to be a very good player
16:20 that perhaps doesn't fit with you?
16:22 You have to play to make me realise how wrong I was.
16:26 For the guys who behave well, I don't care.
16:29 But in this type of person, and how he helps us in every training session,
16:32 and the minutes he plays, and how he's in love with that,
16:35 I always feel I could do more.
16:39 So hopefully he can find an environment to play regularly, and of course, why not?
16:44 Hi Pep, just back on Omar Barada,
16:48 how much concern is there amongst yourself, Tchiki, Ferran, Khaldun,
16:53 that the knowledge that he's got of this club and the expertise he's built up here,
16:58 he's taking that to your local rivals,
17:00 how much that will significantly weaken you and strengthen them?
17:04 There must be a concern behind the scenes.
17:07 Obviously, all that knowledge goes to United, his knowledge.
17:11 That's a reality.
17:15 When you bought a player for another club,
17:18 you bought the knowledge that this player had in the past
17:21 with other managers and other teammates.
17:23 That is normal.
17:25 But in this club, these kinds of situations happen.
17:33 What the club is going to do is move forward.
17:36 They will find a way to replace him, and we continue.
17:43 Because the new guy is coming, maybe from here,
17:47 the guys are here, I don't know.
17:49 Ferran will decide, Khaldun will decide.
17:51 The guys will be well prepared, and we will adapt.
17:56 The people will adjust the new knowledge for this person and move forward.
18:00 But it's normal.
18:02 The club learned a lot from Omar, but Omar learned a lot from the club.
18:07 This combination now goes to United.
18:10 That's what I was going to say, though, because he's taking a lot of your trade secrets.
18:15 Kevin De Bruyne is still in Man City.
18:18 De Bruyne will play here.
18:21 Erling Haal will play here.
18:23 So at the end, it's not simple like that.
18:26 Otherwise, with the power of United, we have done before.
18:30 Maybe United thinks with this person, everything is going to change.
18:34 Congratulations.
18:36 So I don't know if this is going to happen.
18:38 I don't know.
18:39 He's a lovely person, incredible character, incredible professional.
18:43 I wish him--yesterday I saw him.
18:45 We hugged each other.
18:46 I wish him all the best.
18:48 Deeply, I wish him all the best, because he's a fantastic person.
18:52 What can I say?
18:53 But I don't know if doing this, everything is going to sort it and work.
18:58 If it does happen, oh, my God, they have to make a stand for Omar Morad in the future.
19:03 If it does happen.
19:05 You mentioned Haaland and De Bruyne will still be playing here,
19:07 but can you see a time when United and City will deal directly in transfers?
19:11 Because you've sold to Arsenal, haven't you, with Jesus and Zinchenko.
19:14 Can you see a time where you would--
19:15 Why not?
19:17 If one person is unhappy here, want to go to United and the players,
19:21 and they have a deal for the right price and three, four parts are agreed, why not?
19:26 What is the problem?
19:29 If Omar is unhappy here, want to go there, they have to go.
19:33 What can we do?
19:35 There's nothing wrong with that.
19:36 In the clubs, in the transfers, always has happened this kind of situation.
19:40 We want a player from United.
19:42 If the club has agreed to sell it and the player want to come
19:46 and they arrive to agree for the transfer, why shouldn't they do it?
19:50 What is the problem?
19:52 Because the winning or losing doesn't depend just for this specific thing,
19:55 for many things.
19:58 To win inconsistent for many things.
20:01 So this is what I believe.
20:03 Hi, Pep.
20:05 It's on Calvin again.
20:07 It may be a difficult one to answer because you said you feel sorry
20:09 for not being able to give him the minutes.
20:11 Why has he not been able to make the impact here?
20:13 He's obviously a quality player, I'm sure.
20:15 For my decisions.
20:16 You agree with that too.
20:17 For my decisions.
20:18 I need a typical player for that.
20:20 Is it a style thing?
20:21 Yeah.
20:23 We need in that position, we need another thing that sometimes myself,
20:29 you know, struggle a little bit to see him, that's all.
20:32 But the qualities are there.
20:34 Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a national team.
20:36 Incredible what they have done in Leeds United.
20:40 The qualities are there.
20:41 I regret more myself than Calvin.
20:44 And other players I would say, but how he behaved,
20:46 he tried, it's my responsibility.
20:48 At the end, I have to be here to help the players to develop,
20:51 to help the players to be better players, to suit with what we want to do.
20:54 And I was not able to do it.
20:57 Just to explain that, because everybody knows he's a quality player,
20:59 like you've said a lot, when you say you need something specific
21:02 for that role like Rodri, if you can explain that,
21:05 then it might be easier for us to understand why Calvin hasn't worked out here.
21:09 He probably will at West Ham, for example.
21:11 He has not to do like Rodri.
21:13 Rodri is unique and the other players are unique,
21:15 has his own qualities, and it didn't happen.
21:17 So, that's it.
21:20 Thank you, guys.
21:21 Okay, thank you.
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