00:00Good afternoon, Reuben. Looking ahead to tomorrow, what's the availability?
00:10I think Leach is out, Casemiro is out because of the red card. Ahmad is not here, someone
00:18in his family passed away, so we are giving all the support to Ahmad and we understood
00:26that it was important for him to have his time and to return home. The rest is fit and ready
00:34to play.
00:35I was going to say, is Nusem Masraoui?
00:37He's not also. He's not going to be until we stop for national teams, so he's out also.
00:45You obviously got a very important win last weekend. How important is it now to finally
00:51get back-to-back Premier League wins? Is it something the club haven't achieved for longer
00:55than anything?
00:56Yeah, it's really important. I think that, and we talk about that in the end of the game,
01:01it's really important for us to have that sense of urgency that we need to win no matter
01:06what. And it's going to be really difficult. Every time we start preparing the game and
01:11you watch the next opponent, you think it's going to be really, really tough. I have that
01:16feeling. But for me, we cannot control the result of the game. But for me, the most important
01:22thing is to start the game the way we start against Chelsea, the way we start against Burnley,
01:27the way we start against Arsenal. These kind of games, we need to be really focused and
01:33to have that feeling that we need to win every match.
01:37It's true.
01:38Hi, Rune. It's a big game for Brian in Burma on his return to Brentford. Any short time here,
01:46how important has he become to your team?
01:49It's really important for everything that he has been doing. The light that he brings to
01:57the dressing room is not the guy that talks more. But you can feel that he is always there
02:04to help us. He runs a lot. He presses a lot. It's a different threat compared to last season.
02:12He can take set pieces and that is really important in this league. So I'm more than happy with
02:18Brian.
02:19Has he surprised you at all? Because some players struggle to deal with the demands of playing
02:24for this club, but not him, obviously.
02:26That is also the good thing to have time to know the player when you want to bring players.
02:34Then you can see every week the player that was really important for us to bring new players
02:41from our league. So you can understand what they are doing week by week against the opponents
02:47they are going to face. So that can help us. So the risk is completely different from other
02:54players. But in the end, you never know. So we were lucky with Brian.
02:59Thanks, George. Hi, Ruben. Just on Brian and also bringing in the likes of Mateus, obviously
03:05you brought in Premier League proven players this summer. I mean, how important was that?
03:10And do you think that's a strategy you could see continuing going forward?
03:13It depends because you can see that every player that you want to buy in Premier League is really
03:19expensive. So you have to also to manage that. But if you look to our moments last year,
03:27you want to take the less risky move. It was really important to have top players in our team.
03:37And I think if you look, Brian and Cunha, it's not just one year. They are doing this for years. So it was really important.
03:45It was something that we look for players in Premier League.
03:50And just on Ahmad, I mean, the club yourself, you've shown a bit of compassion to let him go home after family bereavement.
03:57I just wonder, does the footballing world maybe need to show that as well? Maybe with fans? Because he received a lot of messages on social media after the Chelsea game, posting a picture with Alejandro.
04:07I always say the same thing to my players. Shut down social media. And nowadays it's like that. It's a price you have to pay.
04:19But the important thing is that to the club and the friends, that is real life for Ahmad. We are here for him.
04:28It's a tough moment. And in this kind of moments, it's not important. The next game we can win without Ahmad and we want to win also for Ahmad.
04:40Ruben, Salmon's mentioned this winning two games in a row, but obviously that is a kind of baby step in terms of improvement.
04:49If you want the improvement that you're seeking, you need to win games in a row. Do you feel confident about that? Because I think a lot of fans don't really trust the team to be able to play two games back to back well.
05:08Yeah, that is the, I don't say playing well, because I think we did that this year. But to say it's normal, the fans, they don't know what is going to happen the next game.
05:22And to be completely honest, I have an idea, but I don't know how it's going to be. And I'm the manager of the team. That has to be with the moment that we live for so many, so many months.
05:35So I think the best way of dealing with that is that every game is the last one. It's just not thinking about two games. Okay, it's not too many games for Manchester United. Yes, it's a big deal for Manchester United.
05:52So the next game is going to be the most important game for a long time in Manchester United. So I understand the feeling of the fans. So let's start changing that feeling and to present ourselves with that urgency that we need to do on the pitch.
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