00:00Hi Pep, it's another clean sheet for Donnarumma in goal and I don't mean this as any disrespect
00:07for Edison but when you've got a player of that quality and that stature walking into
00:10the dressing room and being able to adapt as quickly as he has done, what does that do for
00:14his defenders and the dressing room as a goal? Never ever I will make a compliment for Donnarumma
00:20for disrespecting the most important keeper that we had maybe in this club in 10 years.
00:25Edison has been massively important in the build ups and given the biggest moment.
00:33But DGO is taller, like Erling is taller than Sergio Auer, for example, and the lone bulls,
00:38he's present and go there and give us a boost but just because he's taller,
00:42not the other reasons and everything keeper. James Trafford, I'm seeing the training session,
00:47a long time, long time I didn't see a keeper as good as James. So we have an incredible two keepers,
00:52incredible, incredible ones. So, and of course, DGO for experience, even just have 26 years old,
00:59because start to play with Milan at 17, so play World Caps and not yet because we're not qualified,
01:05hopefully this season, but in European Caps and this kind of stuff, DGO is, of course,
01:10is a really, really good keeper. I'm happy for him. But since I've been here, always I had a really,
01:18really good keeper. How tough is it though to come from a different country, a different way of play,
01:22in, to come to the Premier League, what we consider to be the toughest league in the world,
01:26and start as quickly as he has done and he hasn't really...
01:29Yeah, it's a big question. Sometimes you ask to, you know, adapt to the players and the other players
01:35adapt in one second. That is the biggest difference, right? There are players like, I'm there.
01:42Hi Pep, is there any chance of Rodri coming back for midweek or is it going to be a longer term thing?
01:46I don't think so. Real, I don't think so. And Aston Villa, I don't think so.
01:52It's not long, but it's muscular and you have to be careful. We try, as many times,
01:57we try to not be rinsy then to injure injure, but we have not been able to do that. So that's why
02:03we will see, step by step. With Kovacic back as well,
02:06do you feel like you're sort of better equipped to cope? Absolutely. Kovacic, you know,
02:10have a special quality with the ball to keep it, but we cannot forget. Come for a surgery for three
02:16or four months injury and we need, as I said yesterday in the press conference, we need his
02:22quality time. I don't want Kovacic for 90 minutes and 90 minutes and 90 minutes. In the time,
02:27we get it, but now I don't have that feeling that he's ready to play that and I would not help him,
02:32I would say, but for 20 minutes, 30 minutes or 60 minutes, Kovacic with Berni, with all the players
02:40that we have in different ways you can play, they are extraordinary. They are fantastic.
02:45Just quickly, Nick O'Reilly, did he have a knock? Did he have an injury?
02:49I think it's a knock, yeah. I don't think it's nothing, but we'll see, but hopefully it will not be.
02:57Just on Donnarumma, Pep, do you think it's helped that he wasn't here last season,
03:02because he just seems to have helped kind of the whole team move on from some of the problems
03:06that you had last year? No, but not just the problem. It's just not the only problem,
03:11only reason, but we are living better. So the reason is that we are fit and our training sessions
03:18and our many things we have, it's much better. So what we were in the, like I said, last season,
03:26the previous seasons. So, of course, every player, new one, have something new. You know, the bike is
03:33different because I'm not six, seven, eight, nine years. I'm tired. I know Pep, I know the
03:38everything. New one is fresh and open eye, you know, everything is completely different and
03:44all the players came from this intern, this market in the previous one, give us that, absolutely.
03:52And sort of arriving as a player that's just won the Champions League, has he been
03:55open to improving in training, things like that? You win a lot of leagues in France and a lot of
04:02Champions League and European Cup with Italy, of course, give us. The guy had the feeling when
04:11make a mistake is the late in two seconds, his personality is obvious, everyone obviously is there.
04:20Thank you. Thank you, everyone.
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