00:00I would prefer to start with something positive,
00:24which is not positive, but the tribute we gave Matt Beards
00:28was, I think, of Liverpool standards.
00:32So how the fans always do this is something that makes me proud
00:38to represent this club, how we always find a way to be so respectful
00:43for people that have done so much for our club.
00:47And then we go immediately, because of your question,
00:53to the last minutes of the game.
00:55Where Hugo got a second yellow card that is...
00:59What were your two words?
01:01Did you think it was needless?
01:03That was needless, yes.
01:05Did you think it was a bit stupid?
01:07And it was stupid, yeah.
01:09It was.
01:11The first one was already needless, and to a certain extent stupid,
01:17because you have to control your emotions.
01:19And I know how hard it is if you play Premier League,
01:21or every league in the world if you are number nine,
01:23then the defender can almost do everything he wants.
01:27And then when you push him a little bit, then you get a free kick against you.
01:32But it's always the best to control your emotions,
01:36and if you cannot control your emotions, do it a way that it doesn't lead to a yellow card.
01:40So I think I said when I got my red card against Everton,
01:44that's always stupid, because you can show your emotions,
01:48but if it leads to a yellow or red card, then it's stupid.
01:51And that's what happened in the first yellow.
01:54And then I told him as well, and I said it to numerous media already,
02:00if you score in the Champions League final in the 87 minutes
02:03after outplaying three players and hitting it in the top corner,
02:06I can maybe understand that you are like,
02:09this is all about me, what did I do?
02:11But I'm old-fashioned, I'm 47, and old maybe,
02:16and I haven't played on this level, but I did score a few goals,
02:20and if I would have scored a goal like this,
02:22I would have turned around and walked up to in this situation Federico Chiesa
02:26and said, this goal is all about you, this is not about me.
02:32So yeah, needless, not smart, you call it stupid,
02:39I call it stupid by the way as well.
02:43Paul?
02:45And how's Leonie?
02:48Yeah, how's Leonie?
02:53Of course, he's down, he's down, in the way to say it, yeah.
02:59Because for him it didn't feel good immediately,
03:04but this is something now we have to do research on?
03:10Assess.
03:11Assess.
03:12And normally these things don't happen in five to ten minutes,
03:17you have to wait for tomorrow to see how he comes in,
03:20and then maybe do an MRI scan to know more about how serious it is.
03:25But normally the emotions of a player tell you a lot.
03:30I saw during the weekend a player in the Dutch Serie Divisie,
03:34who went out completely in tears and he felt himself what was also...
03:41Rube van Bommel, by the way, at PSV.
03:43And a day later it proved to be that he was right,
03:46but let's hope for the best.
03:48It's not his shoulder.
03:51It's not his shoulder.
03:53I think what you want to see.
04:09So I can accept completely that a team that plays for the first time together,
04:13players that haven't played for a long time,
04:15that they don't play as a team perfect,
04:18but what I always want to see is players that try and work hard.
04:21So I said at half-time, for me it's completely not a coincidence
04:25that Federico picked the ball and assisted on the first,
04:29because he was the one, in my opinion,
04:31that was most involved in the game, tried the most, worked the hardest,
04:35and then it wasn't a coincidence again that he was the man that made a deep run.
04:40Great ball by Robbo, by the way, who also has won so much at this club
04:44and also understands how to play this game.
04:47Not underestimated, just always be ready to play.
04:50And that's also the way to get yourself either back in the team
04:54or get as much playing minutes as you want.
04:56That's why I was happy with a few individual performances,
05:00but far from happy from a few other individual performances.
05:05No, but I think these players, who I mean, I think they know already.
05:17Yeah, it's nice, because it's only six or seven days ago when he made his debut.
05:30I just asked, was it two weeks ago when we played Burnley?
05:33He said, no, it's only one week ago.
05:35So time goes so fast that sometimes you don't understand how long it took.
05:39But we got him not in the best circumstances in terms of match fitness,
05:45so we have to build it up.
05:46And the downside to that is that you cannot play a player 90 minutes,
05:49and if you only play him 45 or 30, or again like today 45,
05:53it might then normally take a while before he scores his first goal,
05:56because we can all understand if you play a player three times 90,
05:59it's a bigger chance that he scores a goal than when you play him 45, 30, 45.
06:03And he's the British record signing,
06:10and hardly anyone talks about this,
06:13so maybe it's smart for me to talk about this.
06:15So there will be pressure on if it takes a while before he scores a goal,
06:20because he's the record British signing.
06:23No one says this, so I repeat it.
06:26So yeah, I think the best moment to start to see where he is
06:32and how much he can help us.
06:34You can already see that he can help us,
06:35but the best when he comes back hopefully from the Swedish national team,
06:38when he stayed fit, played there many minutes,
06:41plays for us in the upcoming weeks a few minutes,
06:43then I think after that his pre-season has ended
06:47and we can expect even more from him.
06:51But till now I'm very happy with what I've seen from him.
06:57Brilliant, thank you guys.
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