Guardiola on City Premier League court battle and questioning how they can play twice in 49 hours
Guardiola on City Premier League court battle and questioning how they can play twice in 49 hours
13/09/2024
CGA, Manchester, Uk
13/09/2024
CGA, Manchester, Uk
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00:00I didn't watch the first game, I saw the second one, I saw Jack really well in the position
00:15behind the striker, more central position, and Rico playing the left but playing more
00:19inside, that is intelligent play, I think both play good, John also played good minutes
00:24in the second game, very pleased, they came back no injured, fit, and yeah, good.
00:31Would you consider playing Jack as a number 10?
00:34Yeah, he can play, we know it.
00:37And also Rico is on the left, do you think that...
00:40Well, if you need Rico to go up and down for the left and crosses for the left, it's not
00:46good, but you have to play more central position, short passes, attack, more central position,
00:52it's really good.
00:55Kevin didn't seem very happy at the end of the Belgium game, did he give you a chance
01:01to speak to him?
01:02No, I saw him really happy yesterday, in the training these two days, I saw him really,
01:08really well, but I didn't speak about that.
01:12In the last few days, it seems you brought out the fourth kit, inspired by Ron Callum,
01:18what are your thoughts on it?
01:20It was a good design, apart from being a great, unbelievable musician, I think he's a good
01:26designer as well, so the kit is marvellous, it's so beautiful, the colours and everything,
01:33and yeah, it looks like destiny, right?
01:36The moment the US is back, he created this kit for our fans, for ourselves, so yeah,
01:43the destiny was there together.
01:45You were on the picture holding a guitar?
01:48I don't think so.
01:50If you see the picture with the guitar, don't think about it, I was playing.
01:54Not at all.
01:57Sorry, it's a schedule question I'm afraid, but I know you've talked a lot for many years
02:03and rightly, players and managers have just ignored their feelings on it, you don't know
02:10what impact the Club World Cup at the end of the season is going to have on the players,
02:14but is it your view, you haven't been at the top level of the game for so long, the cumulative
02:20effect of all these games in no rest of the season, do you feel like it will reduce the
02:27quality of the top games that we see towards the end of the season in time, are you concerned
02:34that the quality of games could be affected?
02:38I don't know, hopefully not, I don't know about the World Cup, I'm not thinking about
02:43it one second, the future is far, far away, I don't know, apparently when you are fresh
02:51it's much better, that's why in the training sessions it's nothing, it's come up to say
02:57hi, to laugh a little bit and prepare for the next game, so that's why it's so important
03:02to try to see, select with images, to learn exactly, understand what is going well or
03:06wrong and understand that, but you cannot apply, you cannot train, now maybe a little
03:13bit more, but when you are in February, March, April, December, January, February, the schedule
03:17is terrible, so in that situation it's just, you know, it's a rough energy to the game,
03:24it's what I learned, so when you are in clubs that play a lot of competitions, it's keep
03:29the energy to the moment of the game, so it's not interesting the day before training good
03:34or the day after, because you need energy for the 95 minutes you are going to play,
03:39and this is what I think, for the quality, for more injuries, less injuries, I would
03:44love to know, but honestly I don't know the consequences direct to the injuries or the
03:50performance, so honestly I don't know.
03:53On the players, they never make excuses, they just get on with it, but last season,
03:59towards the end of last season, Bernardo, he was very angry...
04:04Yeah, me too.
04:06Do you sense from your players that the players think the situation has become...
04:13No, it's something like, because we are playing on Wednesday, Real Madrid,
04:20the Champions League, so extra times, you know, and why are we playing on Saturday and
04:27Sunday, and the broadcasters say, no, because there is more audience, you know, more rating,
04:33audience, no, it's completely the opposite, so United with a championship team that play
04:39Coventry that was amazing, they have more audience, so the players, the game is good,
04:44the people will watch it, so why we cannot play on Sunday, this understanding is difficult
04:49for me to understand, and I said, we have to defend our product, the broadcasters, I
04:55defend my product, I defend my club, I defend my players, so this is the thing, it's difficult
04:59for me to understand it, you know, it's why, why, now the problem on Tuesday against Watford
05:06is a problem of schedules, no more days, a week is seven days, we are not creating eight
05:11days a week, nine days a week, no, nothing is going to happen, just seven days, so you
05:15have to fix all the games and the schedule is so tight, a lot of games, so it's impossible
05:20to handle it, so we just, you know, go for it, so that's why Bernardo was, me and all
05:27of us, because we were absolutely destroyed, so I said before the game, you are sad, right,
05:33you are tired, yeah, so we are not going to change that feeling, we went through against
05:38Madrid, we could not do it, so we are disappointed, you need time, you know, to process that defeat,
05:43to process that, and even you play against Chelsea, you know, give me one more day, why
05:47not, give us one more day, why not, it's the same for them, but yeah, that's why I said
05:53next season is going to happen the same, it's going to happen the same, when they decide
05:56they will not think about it, but it's what it is.
06:00Pep, just back on the independent commission next week, Javier Tebas has been talking about
06:07it in Spain, and claims he's spoken with a lot of Premier League clubs, and privately
06:12they all think City should be sanctioned, first of all, do you think he should be commenting
06:16on it, and secondly, do you think that's correct, do you think he's got a point?
06:20No, for the fact they've played with the Premier League teams and want to be sanctioned, that's
06:24for sure, I'm agreeing with Tebas for the first time, hopefully the last, I'm pretty
06:29sure I'm agreeing with that, so that's why I said Mr Tebas and the Premier League teams,
06:33wait, no independent panel, so you know, the justice is there in the modern democratic
06:41countries, so yeah, wait the decision, it's not much complicated than that, but I don't
06:49know if he's a lawyer, or all the Premier League teams are lawyers, so what I ask is
06:54that, is wait, it happens in the UEFA every time, so if there's something wrong, we believe
06:58we haven't done anything wrong, so we go to the independent panel, and we are going to
07:04wait.
07:06Good.
07:13No, not yet.
07:14We are on our way.
07:18They decide, I don't know if we want to vote or not vote, we'll see, next day we'll know it.
07:24Me vote?
07:25No, no, no.
07:27Don't make me discompromise.
07:29Two more questions, just one here.
07:34Just on Jack Rulish again, he's been up by today for instance, and a lot of talk about
07:39his form of strength, he's been here three years now, how do you think Jack has changed
07:44and developed and improved as a player since he's been here, from the guy who arrived from
07:49Aston Villa...
07:50It's a question for him, I think he's an exceptional player in Aston Villa, he's an exceptional
07:54player here.
07:55I think he made a half-half, good first season, the second was an unbelievable excellent season,
08:03last season was not good, and this season started a part of the niggles, really good,
08:11so hopefully he can do a good season.
08:15Armenia, FastMedia Armenia, midfielders playing in the pockets are very important to your
08:23teams, especially this season we see Pico Luis coming inside many times, how do you
08:35choose a player from another position who can play also in the pockets?
08:40The quality they have, there are players who can play inside and players who cannot
08:44play inside, it depends on the quality of the skills they have, not because I want one
08:48player there, they have no skills to be there, people feel more comfortable being outside
08:53than inside, so it depends on the quality of the players.
08:58Thank you guys.