00:00Hi Reuben. In terms of the squad for tomorrow's game, how's Mace, Mal, Matheus, Cunha, Martínez, Dalot?
00:06Dalot is out. Mace is in the squad in Cunha. He's in the squad. Licha is still out. I think that is it.
00:18Obviously some windows have shut around Europe since we've had a chance to speak to you.
00:22What's the situation with Tyrell Malassia?
00:24He's returning to the contact with teammates and the ball in the under-21 and then we will see.
00:35Let's believe that Jim Ratcliffe was here yesterday. I mean obviously there's a lot going on at the club but everybody kind of focuses on you.
00:45Could you just tell us what you spoke about with him?
00:48New contract. He was offering me a new contract. No, it's normal things just to show the support.
00:58Explaining that is a long project. He said many times this is my first season. For me it's not.
01:07But normal things. Spoke with him, with Omar, with Jason. Just trying to see all the data around the team.
01:15So a normal meeting and we had several. But in this moment it's normal people pay attention to that.
01:21I mean, I understand you will appreciate the support, I'm sure. But you also know you do have to win matches, don't you?
01:29Oh, that is... Guys, this is football and this is the club with more pressure maybe in the world.
01:35But we want to win. And again, I think we are... You can say whatever.
01:42And I think last year I was a lot of... Very critical of the way we play.
01:48I think we are playing well until the boxes. Defending and attacking.
01:53We need to be more aggressive in the boxes. We need to be more clinical.
01:57The rest, I think we are improving in comparing to last year. I think we are in the better place.
02:03But again, we need to win. We lost against Arsenal and we lost against City.
02:10And here losing, especially in the beginning after last season, is a problem.
02:16Afternoon, Ruben. You said after the City game that there are a lot of things that have happened in the last few months that we don't know about.
02:22I appreciate you might not be able to say everything, but can you give us some context as to the type of things that may have been...
02:28You know more or less. And you are here for a while and you have your sources.
02:34So you know what I was talking about. But now I'm focused on Chelsea.
02:39I just wanted to ask you, in terms of Chelsea, the returning Alejandro Garnaccio to Old Trafford.
02:44You talked about him needing a new environment when he left the club.
02:47I just wonder what conversations did you have with him to kind of conclude that that would be best for him in his career.
02:53Garnaccio is not our player. I'm focusing on our play.
02:57I'm really happy with Mason and Cunha returning. That is my focus.
03:01And then the rest you have to talk with the Chelsea manager.
03:04You've had a full week with the players. So I was wondering what you've managed to do this week and how helpful it's been to have that time with them.
03:16We use the time to analyse the last game and to analyse the next game and to prepare different things.
03:23I think, again, I think we are playing well until we reach the boxes.
03:26We need to be more clinical. And if you see the number of shots, the X-key, all these things are good.
03:32But if you don't score, it doesn't matter if you don't win games.
03:36Then, again, I said that after the last game, the way we suffer the goals, we can avoid that.
03:43We are being naive. We need to be more aggressive in order to win games.
03:49We just have to maintain to play the way we are playing, but improving on the opponent's box in our box.
03:58That was the focus of the week, especially if you play against Chelsea.
04:02That is the team that when he crosses, he has more guys inside the box.
04:07And we suffer a little bit against Fulham.
04:09And we work a lot during the week to be better on that.
04:14So it's always the same cycle. It's to analyse what we did wrong in the weekend and to improve for the next weekend.
04:21And essentially the start of some good news for Lissandro Martinez.
04:25He posted a picture this week of him running out on the grass again.
04:28And while I appreciate he's probably a little way away from coming back yet because he's been out for so long,
04:33what might that do for him, maybe mentally?
04:36It's really important. When you have that injury, you have a time that you recover a lot of things really fast.
04:43And then there is a boring part that you are just, it looks like you don't go to the next step.
04:50We miss a lot Licha.
04:52Especially in this moment, we miss the aggression, how aggressive he is in everything he does.
05:00I think we miss him.
05:02But he's always there in every meeting, in every training.
05:05Sometimes he finishes the training and stays there to watch the training.
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