Guardiola on City latest ahead of visit of high flying Bournemouth

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Guardiola on City latest ahead of visit of high flying Bournemouth  31/10/2025  CFGA, manchester, UK

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00:00Good morning. Someone start.

00:04Afternoon, Pep. Is Erling going to be fit for Sunday?

00:10He's OK. And any word on Rodri?

00:16I think we'll be ready to help us. I don't know from the beginning, but hopefully he can be with us.

00:27Have you had to try and hold him back a bit? I imagine he's desperate to play.

00:33And 18 more players too. Everyone is desperate to play.

00:37Of course, I've been out a few times and everybody knows how important he is for us.

00:46Bournemouth second in the Premier League, only one defeat.

00:51What do you think they could realistically achieve this season?

00:56Question for Iraola, but it's not, I would say it's just nine games, but it's not just games.

01:06It's games plus previous season and previous season.

01:09So it's a consistent team and fantastic team, manager, players.

01:16So tough opponent, but we know.

01:19Afternoon, Pep. Phil Foden could make his 200th Premier League appearance.

01:28How many?

01:29200th Premier League appearance this weekend.

01:32Just for you, what has it been like to see him grow up, I suppose, from 17 years old to see him now?

01:37It's an honor for me to have seen these 200 games close to him.

01:43And the impact he has done for us, for the club of his heart.

01:48And yeah, it's a good milestone, especially at his age, I would say.

01:54Would you like to see him back in the England squad?

01:56It gets announced next week.

01:57It's a question for Thomas.

01:59He has to play as best as possible.

02:01Of course, the contention is not easy.

02:03The English players are fantastic in his position.

02:07There are a lot, many.

02:09I have to play good every day, and after, Thomas will decide the best for the national team.

02:17Andoni said this morning that he feels Manchester City are more dangerous on transition.

02:23Just wonder, how do you feel that part of your team has developed in the last 12 months?

02:29Yeah, if he says, maybe right.

02:30And just a final one from me.

02:33Omar Mahmoush has had a bit of a stop-start season so far with injury.

02:37Just wonder, how do you feel the goal, maybe midweek, might help his confidence?

02:41And also, how has he adapted to life?

02:43Of course, the people who play up front, score goals, always give a lot of confidence.

02:48Hopefully, he can continue to grow up on the goals and his game and everything.

02:53Hi, Pep.

02:54Oscar Mob was the only player to keep his place for the Swansea game in midweek.

02:58How do you assess his season so far, and how close to his best is he at the moment?

03:03Considering last season, I was out all the season for a tough injury.

03:10So, he started really well playing the first two or three games, and after, he didn't play

03:15because I have to rotate the team.

03:17But he has to believe.

03:20At the moment, he's going to believe himself how good he is.

03:23He'll make the next step in his career as a football player.

03:26And can I just ask you about Antoine Semenya as well?

03:29Six goals and three assists for Bournemouth so far this season.

03:32Just what makes him so dangerous at the moment?

03:34It's not that season, last season, the previous.

03:37For the way that Bournemouth play, it suits perfectly for him.

03:42So, it's an extraordinary, extraordinary play.

03:48Hi, Pep.

03:49We've seen teams in the past, Chelsea under Conte, Leicester, win the title when they haven't

03:53had European football.

03:55Obviously, Bournemouth haven't got it.

03:56United haven't got it.

03:56Sunderland are up there as well.

03:58How dangerous are those teams in the title race when they haven't got that midweek fixture

04:02and they can just focus week after week on the penalty?

04:04We are used.

04:05We are used.

04:07Dortmund played on Friday yesterday.

04:09Today is Friday?

04:10Yeah, he's going to play today.

04:12So, have two more extra days.

04:14We are used.

04:16In all the seasons we play here, as in decades, always we have sometimes, no, but most of the

04:21times, less recovered than the opponent.

04:22So, it's not a problem, I would say.

04:25Over the course of the season, how big an advantage could that be for a team like Bournemouth

04:28who haven't got, who have just got 38 games.

04:31It's a question.

04:32Don't ask me.

04:33I will respond to you, but it's a question for Iraola.

04:35What is the situation?

04:37Don't play, you know, have a long, long week.

04:39So, only I can say that you can sustain this gap of less games or less time, I would say

04:47less games and less timing or less days before the games.

04:50You see, we are, yeah, the full squad.

04:52When that's happened, you can handle it.

04:54When you don't have it, it's more difficult.

04:56Anything else for the embargo?

04:59Yeah, sure.

05:02Hi, Pep.

05:03Bournemouth sold some of the best players during the summer.

05:06Are you surprised at how well they've adapted since?

05:09Yeah, top.

05:10That means how coordinated that, the hierarchies, the sport directors with the manager, with the

05:15players, the clear philosophy.

05:18Don't change, of course, the players, you know, change a lot of things, but, you know,

05:25it's not, it's impressive.

05:27So, when you lose three or four players for the back four, you know, PSG, Madrid and Liverpool

05:36and you, you know, reinvest the team with new players and do it in that way, it's because

05:43there are a lot of good work behind.

05:46We saw Nottingham Forest qualify for Europe last season, Bournemouth second at the moment.

05:53How much has the league changed since you've been here and does that traditional top six

05:57still exist, do you think?

05:59Yeah, but I remember when I was in Munich or in Barcelona, always I have the rumor here

06:04in England that it's more difficult that everyone can beat everyone, you know?

06:08Always had that sense, you know, that it doesn't matter, you go away.

06:14Maybe Liverpool and ourselves in the past, you know, changed that dynamics that we were

06:20so consistent in terms of points, arriving every season more than 90, 90, 90, 90 points,

06:25close to 100 points, but I think Premier League, maybe it's back to always have been, you know,

06:31and all the teams can beat it and it's good.

06:34I think, you know, it's like at some point like NBA that there's not a dominant team

06:42and every last four or five or six years always win one different team in the NBA, you know,

06:49and everyone can beat everyone.

06:51So, I think for the spectator, for the show, for the Premier League, I think it's really, really good.

06:58Hi, Pat.

06:58There's been quite a lot discussed about squad depth over the last few days.

07:03How pleased are you with the amount of depth you have in the squad this season?

07:06No, we're not the injured.

07:07It's the same double squad that last season.

07:08The questions this season have less...

07:11Right now, we see in the future, right now we have less injuries.

07:14But the double squad was quite similar last season.

07:16It just seemed a bit of a surprise a couple of days ago when the Liverpool manager said that teams like yourselves have got more of a...

07:26You will not have my headlines in Daily Mail.

07:28I'm sorry.

07:29You will not have it.

07:32Can I just ask you a quick one about Foden and Cherki?

07:36Obviously, Cherki played really well on Wednesday.

07:39How do you envisage sort of getting those two into the same team because they offer you so much going forward?

07:46Yeah.

07:48Of course, it's a real option during the season.

07:52Play together in some games.

07:55Like Omar Mamoucho, the Reading Island, Erling, many games.

07:59So, as my GRF, we have a lot of alternatives to use him.

08:04And I will not be the one who says, I don't like this type of players.

08:09But after that, I have to realize what happened to play the Premier League in some games and some opponents

08:16and the physicality that they have, with Erdogan especially.

08:20With some players, you have the balance.

08:24Like sometimes, especially the first half in Aston Villa, we saw it perfectly.

08:28With a lot of talent plays in certain positions and the other one, we are not solid enough, you know, to sustain it.

08:37But they will learn, therefore, from Phil in the minutes they play against Lansing, especially Ryan,

08:44that, of course, he has another attribute.

08:45I'm not going to ask the players to be something like, has another quality play, another talent.

08:51But there are a minimum that you have to do to be the stable of the team.

08:54Otherwise, any transition and any situation creates problems.

08:57You know, always we were so good, you know, dominating.

09:00What happened in the second half against Swansea?

09:02We were there, we were there, we were there.

09:04They didn't run once or twice, nothing.

09:07This would define our team.

09:08When you play like this, if they run, you cannot play in that way.

09:12And sometimes when you have a lot of these type of players,

09:14that we needed to be creative to give options and this balance.

09:18That's it, I think, after Aston Villa perfectly, you know, in a previous press conference before Swansea.

09:22And this is where to find each other, where to find ourselves.

09:26And we will find it.

09:31I was going to ask about Colo Torre.

09:33Is he back now?

09:34Yeah.

09:34And just on the subjects of your assistants, which you've changed in the summer,

09:39how much of an impact have they had in terms of giving you different ideas to use this season?

09:44I've been so lucky in my career as a manager since Barcelona.

09:49I've been especially here, because here in Barcelona and the other one was almost the same,

09:56but here we've changed a lot, you know, a lot of stuff.

10:00I've been incredibly blessed and happy to work with all of them, all of them.

10:06And all I can say that I think not me, Man City, have a Pep, Pep Linders and Colo and James in pieces,

10:15or the new people came, it's a joy to work with them.

10:20I'm so really happy.

10:21And it was in the past, but we are talking for this season, I'm learning a lot.

10:25The most important thing for me, always I try to have people that can add something in my knowledge as a manager

10:34and better and even visions and different things, and I have it this once.

10:37We talk a lot, we discuss a lot, we can do this, we can do that, how you do this, how you do that,

10:43and that is so nice, because it's not, you know, it's what, you are a manager, you know,

10:48to get info for the players, for the staff, but, you know, what we can do.

10:53The football is not just the pleasure is just played, it's just talk as well, you know,

10:59what happened, what will happen, what is the situation right now,

11:02and how we can help the team.

11:05And I feel protected, I feel, you know, I feel embraced for all of them,

11:14and this is only I can ask.

11:17Peppa, obviously last weekend's...

11:21Man United is better, right?

11:26The, you know, last weekend was a disappointment, disappointing result,

11:32but in the main, you have good results, you're not going to see the many goals.

11:35You've obviously been in a situation so often before.

11:38How far away are the team, or how close are the team to where you want

11:45and expect them to be at this sort of stage of the season?

11:49It's about the results, about the really, truly, I know it.

11:52If you win, we are close, if you win, we are far away.

11:55You ask me about that, you ask me about really.

11:57Still, we are not our best, but we are close.

12:02I think I had the feeling, I said a month ago,

12:04that I have the smell that these words will be completely devastated

12:13if you don't get results, I know that.

12:15But I had the feeling, when I see the team,

12:17when I see in the dressing room, in the trainings,

12:20and how we apply, how we want to try to do things,

12:23I had the feeling that when I think Roderick can come his best,

12:29they will not be soon his best, but can help us,

12:31and alongside for all the alternatives I can have,

12:34we will be a team that will be difficult for the opponents to beat us,

12:38and this is what I want.

12:39Will we be there still close to fight?

12:43I don't know, but I said from the beginning,

12:47since I woke up in the States,

12:51I'm really, really optimistic about the team that's going to do this season.

12:55That was more my question, less than the results, more.

12:58You always talk about that smell.

12:59Yeah, my feeling.

13:00And that feeling, and you've been very clear in the past sometimes

13:03when you're like, I don't feel it, we've not got it.

13:07No, except last season.

13:08Except last season for the obvious reasons everybody knows,

13:11not about the results, everybody knows,

13:13and I said the same at the end.

13:15The team making an incredible effort for the last month,

13:18and we finished in a more than decent position in the Premier League,

13:22I would say.

13:23All the seasons I have the feeling that we'll be fine.

13:26Even the first season.

13:28So, that we don't win anything.

13:30I had the feeling that we'll be fine.

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