00:00I would soon be voting on some changes in financial rules.
00:06One of the proposals is what's kind of like a salary cap.
00:11Would the manager as well?
00:14Hopefully not.
00:17Would like a soft salary cap, would that play into the hands of other European leagues
00:23who don't have these rules?
00:26I have a vague opinion about that.
00:28I didn't speak with my CEO, Ferran, so I have to wait.
00:34I think when the clubs will decide, at the end we'll be fine.
00:39Every decision and every rule that happens when your colleague asked me
00:42about the Jack play, about the lone players and so on.
00:47Always there are positives and negatives.
00:49We will see.
00:50I think Premier League always will be a strong league.
00:54In many things it's the best and other things can be better.
00:56So, would we decide the clubs?
01:01We'll be fine because they decide.
01:04Can I just ask on Jack as well?
01:07There's been a suggestion that if this is going well for him at Everton
01:11and that it could be a permanent deal in the end,
01:15would you be kind of happy for him to do that?
01:18Listen, I don't know, so I think he'll have a contract one more year, two more years with us.
01:24The most important thing is he's back.
01:27He's playing, his massive influence in the Everton game is there.
01:32After what happened, maybe Manchester City wants him back.
01:36So, I don't know, so many things are still going to happen and it's about the clubs,
01:42the agents, of course, the managers involved, but especially the clubs and we'll see.
01:46The important thing is playing again, a lot of minutes.
01:49And this is the start of this player, what happened in the last two seasons at the end.
01:53He has to feel, he said perfectly, you know, I had to feel I'm alive,
01:55I had to see the butterflies before the game.
01:57And this kind of passion, the playing football that every player needs.
02:02And I'm happy, really, really, honestly, that he's back and trying back his best.
02:11Hi, Pep.
02:12I just wanted to ask you about John Stones.
02:14He played 90 minutes for England in midweek.
02:16It feels like he's put his sort of injury problems from last season behind him.
02:20Do you see it that way?
02:21I hope so.
02:23I hope so.
02:24So, yeah, I'm happy that he's back there and the confidence from Thomas to him.
02:29And, you know, John, there's no doubts about his potential and his quality.
02:36So, yeah, I'm happy that he played with that.
02:39He's out of contract in the summer, Pep.
02:41He's out of contract in the summer.
02:43What does he have to do to win a new one?
02:44Don't ask me about that.
02:45Just play more games, I suppose.
02:48Don't ask me about that.
02:49So, the club will decide what is the best from John and see how he performed and how, you know, how.
02:57Because when Johnny's feet had been part of the start 11 or part of the group, you know, the year of the travel was unbelievable.
03:04But since then, it had not been this consistency in games.
03:08So, I've been injured many, many times.
03:10So, that's why we have to wait and see.
03:12Hi, Pep.
03:14Obviously, you mentioned before, you've worked with Erling for a long time now.
03:18Opposition managers don't seem to know how to stop him.
03:20If you came up against him, do you think you could come up with a plan to stop him at the moment?
03:24The opponent?
03:26Could you come up with a plan to stop Erling if you were the opposing manager?
03:29Yeah, of course.
03:31Four central defenders.
03:33I had the pleasure to face him when I was in Dortmund and hopefully I'm going to face him again the rest of my life.
03:44Hopefully.
03:45Is that how much you fear him because, you know, he is the best in the world?
03:49He's a top-class player.
03:50You know, in the world of football, there are four, five, six, ten players that are unbelievable.
03:55So, they make a difference, you know.
03:56Erling is one of them.
03:57So, and we have him hopefully for many years and I'm really pleased for that.
04:08Hi, Pep.
04:09You've got Omar and Ryan coming back from injury.
04:13How important is it for them that, you know, Phil and Jeremy and Nico O'Reilly have kind of set the standard early on in the season?
04:23That is the point.
04:24When you have feet and they have to compete themselves, so, you know, Jeremy was unbelievable.
04:30You're right, this season against Brentford didn't play.
04:33So, so at the end they have to compete and, you know, you have to decide to, at the end of the play is between them and their excuses.
04:44And they have to choose.
04:46They have to choose, okay, me to be better or the excuses I put in all the time.
04:50And it's simple, so, and at the end, if they want to compete and do the benefit when the, of course, everyone can have his own, own, own, own problems and own focus and own families and stuff.
05:04But this one target is the team to win games, you know, because all the guys like to do it, it's fine.
05:10I score three goals every game and you don't worry that you will play every single game.
05:13Don't worry, I score three games, obey the best defender, obey the best, you will play.
05:18So, we have excuses you cannot improve and that's why.
05:22So, one of the reasons why we have success with excuses in this club or with me in that, I never appear.
05:28We have a good momentum, you can complain about this and that, it's fine.
05:31But, and it's good that they have to compete each other and whenever we are in the stands and see Jeremy and see Nikos and see all of them playing good, they are not stupid.
05:41They know, well, this is a standard, this is a level, I have to play good, otherwise I will not play.
05:47So, it's simple.
05:48Is that one of the changes from last season?
05:50Because that competition kind of dropped off?
05:52Yeah, absolutely.
05:53Absolutely.
05:53So, the year of the travel, you know, the players I have in the bench, in the bench, I'm in La Porte, that was an incredible central defender national team, Julian and the other one.
06:03And I would love to have them.
06:05But they wouldn't play.
06:06If they didn't play, they left.
06:08You know, and Julian had to compete with Erling and, you know, when this happens, it's top.
06:14And that's why now it's one of the best teams in the world, Atletico Madrid, and playing top class managers and players.
06:23And performing, he performing as well, unbelievable.
06:28And maybe I would love to have him, but I understand.
06:31So, and at the end, many players, many players have happened.
06:34And they have many, many examples of that.
06:37And the only chance we have is, of course, half.
06:41No competitions have.
06:42So, here's the travel, you have the injuries we had last season.
06:44No, no, half of the season, forget about the travel.
06:47Forget about it.
06:48We cannot be possible to do it.
06:49So, you have to be fit, and the minutes they have, all of them, you know, use them the best for them and for the team.
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