00:00players like Declan and Martin who have been doing really well for their countries.
00:04Are you not surprised or would it have been more helpful if Sweden had been doing a bit better?
00:08Because, you know, he's had a couple of bad results and him and Isaac up front look like a dream pairing.
00:16Would it have been helpful if he could have been scoring for his country a bit?
00:20And is that something you spoke to him about? Because it is a real surprise how badly they're doing.
00:24Yes, but as well it's a good representation of what is football.
00:27Football is not. You put those two players there and then everything is gone and we're going to score.
00:32If they score 45 and 55, we're going to score 100 goals.
00:35It doesn't work like this and it's a really good example of how tough this industry and this sport is.
00:41And even with the best possible ingredients, sometimes it's not enough to win.
00:46But I've seen it yesterday and I think if that's done something,
00:50it's even be more eager and more determined to do what he has to do here.
00:55Do you think he's trying too hard sometimes?
00:57I don't think so. I think he's in the right zone.
01:03I think he's been very unlucky in a few seasons and the more I watch some of the actions,
01:07very, very unlucky not to score. I know that four or five goals easily by now.
01:12They will come and sometimes he will have that luck that probably didn't have before.
01:15With Victor, what was his reaction when you pretty much said you could go a series of games without scoring
01:25so long as you could do the right things? It seems quite unusual for the manager to talk about things that might go wrong rather than the things that he could do.
01:35Well, because the Disneyland scenario is a really easy one. He's going to be happy and enjoy it.
01:41So how Victor is? He looks at you. He doesn't move. He was in the screen like this.
01:47He said, yeah, it's fine. It's good. Let's go for it. That's him, you know, so he leaves that no emotion there.
01:55He's just a very single targeted mindset player and that's what I loved about him.
02:01Maybe that's what you need to be a top striker.
02:04100%. Because he's not a top striker. Now it's not been all his career because as we said,
02:10as well, his journey had bumps in the road and when you go to a level, you're going to have this doesn't go like this.
02:15I haven't seen any player except one or two in the history. So get ready and deal with it with naturality
02:24and obviously all the support that he has from us.
02:26Ed, Guardian.
02:28Hi.
02:29Just going back to being top, I know it's very early days, but obviously you've had a bit of experience
02:34of being top before and not managed to get over the line. Do you think that mentally now it's a bit of a different challenge
02:39for the players that know that you are top?
02:41I don't know, but we cannot pay too much attention for that because the feeling was you go to Newcastle,
02:47if you lose in Newcastle, the Premier League is over. And one week later, you are where you are.
02:54So, honestly, it's less focus on what we can control, focus on our performance, focus on delivering
03:00and achieving what we want to achieve daily and the rest. I mean, it's 30 games, it's still 2-0.
03:06So many things are going to happen and emotionally we cannot be dragged into these things because we have
03:12much more important things to do.
03:22No, because it's a very new changing room as well. We have brought in the last two seasons various new players,
03:28so they haven't experienced that. For some of them, we will be unconsciously there, but that's a learning
03:34and hopefully a really positive learning as well because that's sport and that's football in general to do that.
03:41And then you do have micro doses of that, of what happens in Newcastle for a few years,
03:45what happens against West Ham, what happens against City when we could not beat them.
03:49It's a lot of situations. And then we have learned from that. And then the ultimate goal,
03:54if we do a lot of the small things well, it will come.
03:58OK, we'll do the last couple of seconds.
04:00On the issue of other sports and learning problems, what can you specifically take from NFL?
04:05Because to us, that seems like a totally different world of sports.
04:09Well, it gives you context, especially when I have seen Sean run a day with them
04:16and how his day looks and the amount of meetings he has. He has 74 players in the squad
04:21and he has 10 meetings before he even starts and players are taking notes for two hours.
04:25They are in meetings. It's all about education and culture.
04:30So how much information a player can take, depending on what he's been educated with.
04:34So what is a lot, 15 minutes meeting, 45 or two and a half hours?
04:38The capacity that they have as well to create different scenarios.
04:43They are very set-piece orientated to sport.
04:46And then how you connect with an organisation where you have a lot of limits in terms of
04:51the rules as well. It's a lot. So how you maximise all that
04:56is a completely different world to me. And there are things that you can implement because
05:00with the restriction, how they maximise certain areas is unbelievable.
05:06And in my opinion, football and other sports, we are not there yet. So it's a lot to take.
05:09And on the point of left-footers, you mentioned that's something you think about a lot.
05:14What do left-footers bring? What's the benefit of having lots of left-footers?
05:19Balance. At the end, when you have a strong foot, you are more orientated and more inclined to play
05:24certain passes in certain directions. When you want to attack certain spaces, if you are an inverted
05:30foot or an actual foot player, the ball is going to arrive in the box in different ways. So there are
05:35certain connections, how deep you can play a ball when you are playing in certain space,
05:39is related to how dominant you are in your foot. So it's a lot of things to consider.
05:44Finally, Gary, sometimes.
05:46You mentioned what the owners' ambitions and one of the ambitions made is to enlarge or expand the stadium.
05:53What would your role be in that and in that process?
05:57Nothing. If somebody asked me my opinion, I would say for how long we're going to be out.
06:03That would be the first one. But I mean, they've done it in other countries, other sports,
06:10in an incredible way. And it's about when I talk about vision, it's everything. Infrastructure
06:14is one of them, how this club looks in five years, in 10 years, in 20 years, in 50 years.
06:19And I'm sure there is a big master plan. They already thought about
06:22those things much better than me.
06:24Because one of the things you've obviously done here is improve the stadium and the atmosphere.
06:28And there will be one of the factors you've already said to be careful about changing that atmosphere.
06:35That's why I was asking whether you have an involvement in what you would like to see
06:39in the way a new stadium might look and how you can improve the atmosphere for everyone.
06:45I don't know. We're not there yet. So I don't know how that would look.
06:48What I can tell you is when we are doing major decisions, we share them. Obviously,
06:53they're going to lead all the decisions at the end. But to all the people involved in those
07:00discussions or on the daily work or the flow of that, they are super conscious of that,
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