Guardiola on City new signings and Manchester derby against Utd (Full Presser part one)

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Pep Guardiola on City new signings and Manchester derby against Utd  12/09/2025  CFA, Manchester, UK

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00:003.4, 10.30 p.m. on Saturday evening.

00:02Somebody start.

00:04Perfect.

00:06Injury news, there's been a whole host of stories

00:08during the international break.

00:09Can you give us an indication?

00:12Omar is injured.

00:14Came from Egypt.

00:16What else?

00:17Ran Nuri, Ran Cherki.

00:19And the rest, fine?

00:22The rest is fine.

00:23Sorry?

00:23The rest is okay?

00:24Yeah.

00:25Apparently.

00:26As long as well.

00:27As well as doubt.

00:30It's not a big, big issue.

00:32But it's doubt for Sunday.

00:36Fraser?

00:38How long is he likely to be out?

00:43Not yet.

00:44I have to make the last test.

00:47But a few weeks, I think so.

00:50Before the international break, we'll be ready.

00:54You brought in Gianluigi Donnarumma

00:56obviously before the international break.

00:58First of all, how pleased are you to get him in as a player?

01:01And secondly, how will the dynamic work now between you?

01:03Well, first of all, I think it deserves some words from Eddie and Gundo and Manu

01:10that have been unthinkable to what we have done in this time without them.

01:17Eddie helped us to create a special way.

01:21We have been our keeper for the best decade for this club.

01:26Gundo the same, one of the best signs when I arrived.

01:29How smart, intelligent players and Manu for different reasons.

01:34He's not here.

01:34I wish him, I wish personally, all the best of all three

01:38because they helped us a lot to be who we are.

01:41And we had the chance after that when Eddie had one or two seasons

01:45thinking to take another experience.

01:48At the end, it happened.

01:49And the market gave us a chance to take Gigi that, you know,

01:5426 years old, incredible experience with the big clubs,

01:57with the national team from Italy.

02:00And, yeah, we are looking forward to help them and do it.

02:03Just a reminder to hold the mics, please, guys.

02:05Jordan.

02:06Hi, Pep.

02:06Just on those players that you said goodbye to,

02:09have you had a chance to personally say goodbye to them?

02:11And have you got anything planned for the squad?

02:13Yeah.

02:13Just on them, you know, there's a lot of senior players that have left.

02:18Gigi has also left this summer.

02:2010th new players since January.

02:22Does it feel like you're almost back in 2016 starting over again?

02:27I had her in that time.

02:30I was younger.

02:3110 years is a lot of time.

02:33It's not the same.

02:35Any one of us is the same after 10 years.

02:38But, yeah, that's true.

02:39When you change 10 players, it has been really, really important.

02:42And every time we have made a process.

02:44So last season, before we started, we just bought Savinho.

02:48And because I rely a lot with the players that we had.

02:51But after last season happened many, many things in terms of injuries,

02:56in terms of many, many problems that we had.

02:59And the club decided not from now, for the next years, you know,

03:02to make the first step to do it.

03:07And I would love to have, you know, for the players for eight years ago,

03:11seven years ago, or six years ago.

03:13But it's impossible.

03:14In any club, always there are changes.

03:16And, of course, when you change 10 players in a period for four or five months,

03:20of course, everything needs to be settled, fixed, and coordinated.

03:25And we are doing very, many good things.

03:29But still, we have to be, of course, more consistent than we have been.

03:33But step by step, we'll do it.

03:35I know you were probably bored with us asking about the squad size

03:38during the transfer window.

03:40Has it been slightly easier for you to pick a squad for this weekend,

03:43having let a few players go out the door?

03:45Yeah, I have 16 players available now.

03:47Yeah, it's easier.

03:48I don't have 26, yeah.

03:52Hi, Pep.

03:54Back-to-back defeats going into this game,

03:57behind United in the table as well.

03:59They've had issues of their own.

04:02Who do you think this game is bigger for, yourselves or for United?

04:05No, I think, you know, ourselves.

04:07I've always had respect for our city rivals.

04:10So, but, yeah, we came back yesterday.

04:15Players came back good.

04:17And I'm looking forward for our fans.

04:20I know how important it is.

04:21And it's a really, really important game for us

04:23to change the dynamic and be our mood.

04:25And I trust a lot with the players, a lot.

04:30And, yeah, we're going to do a good game.

04:34Sunday starts a run of seven games in 22 days for your side.

04:38Just looking to next week, Arsenal play early on Tuesday

04:42in the Champions League.

04:43Yourselves play Thursday late.

04:47Just what are your thoughts on the schedule

04:49and if you think it's fair?

04:51It's where it is.

04:51One game at a time.

04:52Now United, after Napoli, after Arsenal,

04:56and after the rest, one step at a time.

04:59Hi, Pep.

05:00Just back to Ederson.

05:02His exit, was it more his decision then than the club's?

05:05The end is kind of players' decisions, you know, both.

05:12There are players that want the agent, right?

05:14There are decisions that have been made for the players.

05:17There are decisions that have been made for the club.

05:19And I'm part of the club.

05:21So Eddie was two years.

05:23I was thinking, okay, I've done everything.

05:25I have to win the Champions League.

05:27I won the Premier League and the other one.

05:28From my family as well.

05:29To me, my experience didn't happen.

05:31It happened this summer.

05:32This, yeah, this moment.

05:33And in terms of the change,

05:36do you see a change of style between Ederson and Donnarumma,

05:39especially footwork-wise?

05:43Apparently, always I try to doubt the quality of the players.

05:47I would not demand to Gigi to do something like he's in comfort.

05:52We are talking about the best players I've ever seen in the distribution in short and long I've ever seen with Ederson.

05:59So we didn't take Gigi to do what Ederson has done.

06:04Gigi has another quality.

06:06And you're talking about the wingers that he had in the past.

06:08For example, Riyad Rahim or Leroy is completely different than the wingers that we have.

06:13So it's not.

06:14So when you say one analogy of one player, it looks like you want to undermine the other one.

06:18It's not about that.

06:19So it's just, I said, the players, they're central defenders.

06:22For example, Kusanov, they are faster than all the other central defenders they have.

06:27When it's faster, it's faster.

06:28Because mom and dad gave him a genetic that the other ones didn't give it to him.

06:31But the other ones have something that Kusanov doesn't have.

06:34So at the end, we have the potential from Gigi or for James or for the players,

06:38the keepers that we have, use them.

06:42Pep, this morning, Anis Lott described Alexander Isaac as, to quote him,

06:49probably the best striker in the world.

06:51Where does that leave Erling?

06:53Erling, he's above.

06:55He's above.

06:57His statistics show it anyway, don't they?

07:01His goal scoring.

07:02Listen, it's the same way I answered before.

07:04Isaac is an exceptional player.

07:05You ask me what Erling is as a striker.

07:08So it's top.

07:11But of course, must be top player, Isaac, because what they paid.

07:15So it's obviously.

07:17I mean, nobody's saying Isaac's not a good player,

07:19but Erling's statistics suggest that he really is a phenomenon.

07:23Another one would say Mbappé.

07:24And I would say that another one would say Messi, another one would say Cristiano.

07:28That's fine.

07:28You know, that's why it's a game of opinions and everybody can have his right.

07:34So I'm not saying that this is what I'm saying, that I would not change Erling for anyone.

07:40Because I know him and a part of being in crowd pay is adorable as a person.

07:45And so, and I like him.

07:49Jack?

07:53Just going back to Donnarumma, what does he give you that you didn't have?

07:59He's so tall.

08:02That gives us.

08:03He's so huge.

08:03You've not always had that, though, haven't you?

08:09All the keepers we want to save both and give us confidence to the team

08:14and personalities, a big presence and the biggest stages.

08:19So the Champions League has done last season in Villa Park, in Anfield,

08:23and in many games, proof how good it is.

08:26And he's going to concede goals.

08:29That's for sure.

08:30He's going to concede goals.

08:32But all of us, we're going to try to hold in.

08:35That don't happen.

08:37Where does it leave James Trafford now?

08:41He's a keeper for Man City.

08:45Listen, the keepers play one.

08:47I can play with two fullbacks at the same time,

08:49two central, three central defenders, a keeper.

08:52It's not happened.

08:53And, of course, the season is so long.

08:56Now we start the real season with many games,

08:58and everybody will be involved.

09:00They don't believe it, but it's going to happen.

09:03Hi, Pep.

09:04At Manchester United, Sir Alex did 26 years.

09:1027.

09:1126 to 27, yeah.

09:1327.

09:14Yeah.

09:15Wow.

09:16How many more years do you think you can do,

09:18and will anybody ever do 26, 27 years again?

09:23So many times.

09:24I don't know.

09:25It's going to happen.

09:26I don't know.

09:27So I know the results dictate all the positions,

09:30the teams,

09:33and I have to make a good season for that.

09:37I will not stay here when I will feel that the club needs a change.

09:41But right now, I feel I want to do it more than ever.

09:44It will happen last season,

09:45and especially now in that moment.

09:47I want to be in front of all of the club to take my shoulders bigger and bigger to keep the weight of the situation,

09:56and with my players I try to do it.

09:59I'm not here just because I've done in the past.

10:06So I like to look forward.

10:08That's why we had incredible success.

10:10Because all the time we are thinking about what's the next.

10:13But the time I'm going to stay,

10:15I said many times when I arrived here for the first time and sang for three years,

10:19I never, ever could have expected one decade.

10:23Yes, my tenth season here.

10:24I'm so proud of that.

10:26And I want to help, yes, the team, the club,

10:29you know, staying there, being there again and again.

10:32Hey, Pep, you told us in America when you announced that Bernardo was captain,

10:39that you got Rodri, Ruben Dias and Erling as the other members of the captaincy group.

10:43You said that you might add one or two more.

10:45No, we'll not only stay like this.

10:47It is, right.

10:48Yeah.

10:49In terms of Donnarumma, can you just give us an idea of the first impressions that he's made,

10:53and will he start on Sunday as well?

10:56Arrived the day before.

10:58Today is Friday.

11:00I met him Wednesday.

11:02It was day off, but still, please don't come.

11:06We make a good chat.

11:07And Thursday was training, and I take a day off, stay in my office yesterday.

11:12So I did a training, so I didn't see him, but the comments are pretty good.

11:16Will he start with you?

11:18I will see.

11:20Embargo there for 10-30.

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