00:00On Rodri, I hear what you're saying, you don't want to get into a cycle of coming back.
00:07So, was it just bad luck that he suffered this relapse, considering how careful you were about him
00:14when he was reintroducing the team in America?
00:17This is not happening, this is a bad, difficult injury.
00:21So, statistics say that the year after always you have some muscular problems.
00:27We try desperately to avoid it, but it's difficult to know exactly how many minutes,
00:32how many games and the other one.
00:34And, of course, he's desperate to play.
00:36We need his ambition, his personality, his quality.
00:39He was nominated last season, the best player in the world.
00:42So, that's why it's really, really important to have him back.
00:45And for me, seeing him in the training sessions and in the locker rooms makes me smile.
00:50It made me so happy and he's so close.
00:53As much he's not a step back, he's so close to come back.
00:58You know, but come back for a few minutes and after more minutes and take one day rest
01:03and come back a few minutes and read that is what is the most difficult thing,
01:09to know exactly what is the best for him.
01:12Yeah, so is the truth then that despite all your medical expertise, all your care,
01:17no one really knows in this situation how he will respond until he comes back.
01:21Today we monitorise, all the clubs monitorise really well the players,
01:25but also there are the desires of the players that maybe feel,
01:28I'm good, I'm ready and maybe it's not because I've been one year out
01:33and his life and his passion and his love is playing football.
01:36And this, you know, you have to find the right way to, in the same time,
01:41to get the real, he has to play.
01:43You know?
01:44And in this balance is where we are not just with him,
01:49the players have been injured for a long, long time.
01:52Alright Pep, do you, do you know who your number one is going to be this season?
01:58Sure?
01:59Do you know who your goalkeeper is going to be this season?
02:03Right now, Eddie.
02:05So he starts tomorrow?
02:08Uh, his video.
02:12And with the amount of players you've still got,
02:15has it, how difficult has it been over the last few weeks,
02:17sort of preparing for the season, knowing that...
02:20Precision is a dream.
02:21If you have 40 players, it's not a problem.
02:23Precision is a paradise.
02:25If you have 45 players, it's fine.
02:28Everyone accepts it.
02:30From tomorrow, have players in the, not selected,
02:34that is start the...
02:36Not a problem, because they are professionals,
02:39but it's not nice.
02:41So, you know, you have to meet the mound and everybody compete,
02:43I have the chance I can play on Sunday.
02:45So that is when you come up the best of them.
02:48But you have a lot of players that every week is at home at home.
02:53It's an offence.
02:54So we have to find the right way.
02:57I was going to ask, do you think there might be some form of reality
03:01for some players tomorrow if they don't even travel?
03:04No, no.
03:05The moment the days that the guys maybe tomorrow don't play,
03:10that doesn't mean...
03:11Do you see the calendar?
03:12You didn't see the calendar.
03:14There's no space white, you know, between games.
03:18So every three, four days we have games, games and games,
03:20and everybody's going to play.
03:21Everybody.
03:22It's just these two weeks, they have long weeks,
03:24and that will be there.
03:25But absolutely not.
03:26The guys he didn't play, we're going to play maybe in the sports.
03:29So it's not any signal I said.
03:33I admire them, I like all of them, otherwise we will not be here.
03:36I will say to the club, I don't like the players, we'll find a solution.
03:39I like all of them.
03:40All of them.
03:41There's not the one I'm not satisfied to have him here.
03:43Even Makati was happy to have him here.
03:45All of them.
03:46No, no, it's not about that.
03:48Absolutely.
03:49There's no signals.
03:50It's just, I would love the Premier League said,
03:52you can allow to be on the bench, the players that you want.
03:55I would love it.
03:56Because everybody can play, have more alternatives.
03:58But it's not the case.
04:01Pep, is it easier to leave players out, such as tomorrow,
04:06because you've been clear for ages that if everyone stays,
04:10then you're going to have to leave them out?
04:12Sorry?
04:13You know, players have known for ages that the squad is big,
04:16and so some players are going to have to be left out.
04:18Yeah, they know it.
04:19They are not stupid.
04:21They see how many players are in my position, how many players have,
04:24they know it.
04:25And do you expect that some players will move on then,
04:30or will they be happy to stay with that risk?
04:32I don't know.
04:33I don't know.
04:34If they stay, it's fine, but they know it.
04:37We spoke about that, they know it.
04:39So the reality is that, they know it.
04:43If you stay for me, it's fine.
04:45It's not ideal, but it's my job, I do it.
04:47But if they want to play regularly and irregularly,
04:50maybe it's not going to happen.
04:52Hi Pep, obviously you hope you challenged for the title this year
04:57after it being a difficult one last time.
04:59Can I ask you, do you expect to be in and around you
05:01if you are at that top end of the table again?
05:03We will try to win at Wolves tomorrow.
05:06And after we see.
05:08We won six Premier League together and never said in my first press conference
05:13we are going to win this title or the other one.
05:16So I don't know.
05:17I would like to tell you, but no clue.
05:20I don't have any idea.
05:21So try to be fit, train, good game.
05:23Try to apply a little bit what we feel is good for the type of plays that we have,
05:28the way we have to play, it's suitable for the way we want to change a few things
05:34for the quality of the players that we have and go.
05:38We'll try.
05:39And I know you said your team is ready,
05:41but do you think there's any kind of disadvantage in being involved in the Club World Cup
05:45or an advantage for the sides who maybe weren't involved?
05:47It's what it is.
05:48It was a short preparation, but the preparation was good.
05:51We didn't travel.
05:52We're training here really good.
05:54We have two friendly games and maybe we should do more,
05:59but we'll have time.
06:01NPR has to train things, concepts for the season
06:07because we have a lot of games to play.
06:09So that's why I prefer to stay at home and training good
06:12and energy for 11 months that we had ahead of us.
06:17Okay, thank you.
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