Guardiola ignoring past records ahead of visit of high flying Fulham

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Guardiola ignoring past records ahead of visit of high flying Fulham - City hasve won their past 16 meetings against Fulham  0410/2024  CFGA, Manchester, UK

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00:00Sorry for eight minutes late, sorry.

00:08Some fans have clubbed together to raise money for a banner in your honour tomorrow that will have the words in Catalan,

00:20we want you to stay.

00:22First of all, what do you think about people doing stuff like that?

00:27What's your response to the sentiment?

00:31They have to bring me the bill to pay, I will pay the ban so I don't want to spend money for that reason.

00:40What can I say? Thank you so much.

00:44I fell in love since the first day I came here, I was here.

00:49So it's going to happen, it's going to happen.

00:52Periodically you've mentioned certain things to do with the charges that the team's facing,

01:00you mentioned it with Mikel Arteta rather than questions.

01:04Because of that, do you feel there is more of a need for you to defend your football club this season

01:11and promote your football club because you're a very successful individual,

01:16the club is the most successful in England certainly over the last few years.

01:22But it feels as though you're feeling that very personally this year.

01:27I'm part of this club, deep inside of my bones,

01:33and the best way to defend the club is winning games and doing my job as well as possible.

01:36We cannot misunderstand the reason why I'm here,

01:40but at the same time I'm the person, the manager,

01:42and all the clubs are the person who talk more through all the media,

01:47send a message to the fans or whatever.

01:51And of course I'm going to defend my club because I trust,

01:57since the owner, especially the chairman for the relation and CEOs and all the people working here,

02:04for many, many years I know them quite well, much more than any of yours.

02:09And of course the people around, but the best way to defend is doing our job the best.

02:16Every one, every people working here has his own responsibility,

02:20my responsibility is try to hold my players in their hands and together to win the games.

02:27And this is the best way to defend.

02:30The rest, of course, there are situations in eight, nine years, it's always there.

02:33Some of them are unexpected, some of them are more tough to deal with, but it's what it is.

02:38So there's no complaints and do what you have to do.

02:41And of course I'm part of this club, so not just the manager, I'm part.

02:45I love this club and always will be that way,

02:48because it cannot be different for the way they treat me since day one, so it's impossible.

02:54When you give something and they give me a lot, the rest is just, you know, the consequences. Simple.

03:03Hi Pep, obviously the fans are asking you directly, do you want to stay?

03:07Do you have an answer for them?

03:09I said in the beginning of the press conferences, I'm not going to talk about this subject.

03:16When it's going to happen, it's going to happen.

03:20On Fulham then, City's record against them is 16 wins in a row.

03:25It's the longest run that any team has had.

03:28I don't like this question, I've said it many times.

03:31Don't tell me. The last time you defeated at home it was at Brentford.

03:36After one minute, 0-1 down.

03:39I would say Brentford every game is 1-0 down after the first minute.

03:43But the best way is... Don't ask me this question, please.

03:48Are you aware of the record?

03:50No.

03:51I had no idea. Do you even think about elements like that when you're preparing for matches,

03:56what the previous record has been and the matches last season, how strong you were against Fulham?

04:01Your day yesterday is the same as today?

04:03No.

04:06I would love to say we won 16 games in a row, we're going to start the game 2-0, we're going to win.

04:12Only I see the record is the last six games since the first defeat in a United game,

04:17they didn't lose.

04:19The best moment of Fulham from the... I would say this season, the previous seasons,

04:23is that Marco Sivis already a few years there in London,

04:28and they brought interesting players there,

04:35especially Anderson, an experienced guy.

04:40It's a team that always, always, always, at home especially,

04:43always creates problems in the first half a lot.

04:46They have a lot of weapons, speed.

04:51I saw the last two or three games, I've never seen him in many years I'm here,

04:55in the form that he's playing, and of course the speed from Adama Traoré always creates problems,

05:01Jimenez is back, destructive defensive,

05:05it's always been a tough game, it's the only thing I'm concerned about.

05:08What they do, not what happened in the past, the past is the past.

05:12How's the squad looking? Is Erling okay? Any other issues anywhere else?

05:17Except Nathan, Kevin, and of course Rodri and Oscar, the rest are fine.

05:31Hi Pep, I just wondered if we can get any more information on Kevin De Bruyne,

05:34who obviously...

05:35He's not, for tomorrow he's not ready.

05:37He's not ready, and we know he's obviously not going with Belgium to the international break,

05:40but he's also asked not to go in November.

05:42Is that because he's out for longer, or is that because he's...

05:46How can he go when he didn't play one game, how can he go with the national team?

05:50I never understood that.

05:53You know, I never understood that.

05:55But anyway, he cannot play with us, cannot play with Belgium,

06:01but he didn't say to me, I don't know, he's going to retire for the national team from Belgium.

06:06He didn't say that to me.

06:08I don't know in the mind from Kevin, but for that game he's injured, so he's not available.

06:16Yesterday FIFA finalised their regulations for the Club World Cup,

06:20and part of it is basically turning around to all the teams and saying

06:23you have to bring your strongest players to the States.

06:27Now, we've heard from players saying they're worried about playing too many games,

06:31players saying they're preparing for 60, 70 game seasons.

06:34What's your reaction to that?

06:35What is the strongest players?

06:37Which ones?

06:38I mean, I presume they'll say...

06:41No, but if FIFA will tell me for them which players are stronger than the other ones,

06:45I don't understand that.

06:48So are you worried that your selection issue, how you select a team,

06:53could be dictated by someone else?

06:54No, we go all the squad there.

06:56We don't go for one game, right?

06:59So I don't know how the competition is right now,

07:02but we don't go for 11 players, we go for all the squad.

07:07I don't understand how this selection, this player is stronger than the other one.

07:11I know.

07:13The stronger it means in forms,

07:15and maybe the strongest player for them is in really, really, really bad conditions,

07:19for many reasons.

07:20Personal, physical, injuries, niggles.

07:23He's going to play in other ones.

07:26I'm not going to tell them,

07:28I'm not going to say before the games which player has to play.

07:30I will decide, that's for sure.

07:36I'm not going to say.

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