00:00Decided on the captain for this year with Bernardo and the committee.
00:04Was that because of what happened with Kyle last season?
00:07Absolutely not.
00:08No?
00:09I never put responsibility what happened when situation for one person.
00:14So that's why I would choose just one or the team choose one-one.
00:17There is a lot in that position.
00:20So what happened last season, many things happened, not just for one person.
00:24Never happened for a person, absolutely.
00:27So it was many, many injuries, there are reasons why.
00:29When the captain left, there were many reasons why.
00:32And there are other captains, you know? It's not.
00:35But it's a good lesson.
00:36So life is like that.
00:38It happened many times, many things during one season.
00:41It just learned from that.
00:42And today, this season I decide that and maybe next season I will decide completely the opposite.
00:48Did it come as a surprise though when you heard that he wanted to leave in the middle of January
00:53when you were having such a bad sort of time?
00:55I don't want any player.
00:57I would have loved the best Kyle, but he was not happy for reasons or want to take in a situation
01:04for familiar reasons, from his life.
01:07You know all of you and the players know my opinion.
01:10So sometimes I did the decision, but when the players have been satisfied and cannot be there,
01:16as much as I have an agreement with the club, for me it's fine.
01:23Hi Pep, we saw eight academy players on the pitch at some point at Huddersfield.
01:30Is the quality that's coming through the academy now at a level where you're going to see five,
01:38six, seven, eight players coming through and playing like that?
01:42Listen, in Barcelona we played the first Champions League final against Manchester United with seven players at the academy.
01:50That is a stamp for the job for the academy, to play one game in the Carabao Cup is a good sign.
01:57But for me, the players' academy is James Trafford who has come back after being built here and of course in other clubs,
02:05and Burley, and Phil, and Rico, and Nico, that is the other ones, is okay.
02:09Divine have a huge potential, but we will see in the future when we play a season, a long season,
02:16that is a player for the academy.
02:17But imagine the Hamana players like unfortunately left for the reason why they were top-top class players above and could not have the space.
02:26It will be, my God, it will be a start eleven right now in the, you know, in the first team.
02:33Because if you start to count the incredible players in other clubs that were being educated and being played here in Man City in the academy.
02:42But it's a good sign that still we have long players, like they are playing a lot,
02:48or Max Alain in Watford that I know is playing really good, and many of them,
02:52and some players here that have a potential, you know, to help us to be and see what happens.
02:56And that's why we have the academy.
02:59You mentioned Barcelona there.
03:01Is the long-term aim for the club to have that kind of productivity?
03:07Players that can play in, like you say, Champions League finals?
03:10In the end we have, listen, we have a same, we have a top-top class players that are not here,
03:16and everybody knows it is because it was position, it was a top-top-figure players to win the travels and quadruples
03:23at the same time the question is left.
03:25It will not happen that, it was in that moment, in that level,
03:28it will not in that moment, this maybe capability to make a step up,
03:33these players will be here.
03:35We will be here for sure, for sure.
03:37Hi Pep, how difficult has it been to replace Kyle over the last year since he left?
03:45No, it's difficult, of course.
03:47The players have played eight, nine years in one team like Man City,
03:51like play 55, 60 games per season.
03:54And win the titles, win the titles, it's not just Kyle,
03:57so many of them is so difficult to replace.
04:00But that is what they have to do, the club has to do.
04:03So, we get old, right?
04:05Not just the managers, they play as well.
04:07And that's why it happened.
04:09But of course, there are figures that are difficult to replace.
04:12Were there any talks to go to the market to solve that in the summer?
04:17Or is it a case of the players here?
04:19I don't know right now.
04:21I don't know right now.
04:23I'm happy with Kusa who's playing lately.
04:25With Mateus, Rico can play there, of course.
04:27And even John can play there.
04:29So, in that terms, it's fine.
04:32I don't know yet.
04:34Just another one on Kyle, sorry.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Obviously, you say he's hard to replace.
04:43Does that put extra pressure on Mateus and Rico?
04:45No.
04:46And Kusinov?
04:47Because, and you reference, you know, Kusinov is similar in pace.
04:50Does it put extra pressure on them?
04:52Or do you think they just need to learn from Kyle what he can do?
04:55No, absolutely not.
04:56Kyle has his abilities, his skills as a player,
04:58and these ones have another one.
05:00So, it's happened.
05:02I said many times I would love to have been here,
05:05or maybe, you know, the old players that we have that help us a lot.
05:09I would love it, but it's happened.
05:11When the moment decide, you know, I want to leave
05:14because I don't want to, you know, be here anymore.
05:18So, what can we do?
05:20Having other players and they have to do their own career.
05:23Imagine the young players for the academy have to play
05:26to prove what they have done my predecessor.
05:29So, do your job, your skills, your mentality,
05:32what you have to do your career.
05:34Try to make a long career.
05:36Kyle has done this only he has to do.
05:38Live your life like a professional.
05:40Live today is so demanding every three days.
05:42In the big clubs, it's different.
05:44When you play a competition one game a week,
05:46when you play three a week, it's completely different.
05:48The teams, the clubs.
05:50And it is what they have to do.
05:52And I'm pretty sure.
05:53So, at the end, Matteo, or Cusa, or John,
05:55but John is another example, another name, or Rico.
05:58They have to make their own careers.
06:00Here or whatever the future will decide they have to be.
06:07It was a pleasure again, guys.
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