00:00He named his team and he sort of said,
00:03''I don't care, here's my line-up, we're going to win anywhere.''
00:07Have you ever considered...
00:09I will do that one day.
00:11So, Mourinho has been in the game for how long? 25 years?
00:14So, that will happen at some point.
00:17It sends a message though, doesn't it?
00:19Eh?
00:20It sends a message, I think, to your team and...
00:22Yeah, yeah. And knowing Jose very well,
00:25the message is very clear and with a very clear purpose as well.
00:29So, yeah.
00:30Obviously, you're quite guarded on your team moves.
00:35I presume that's because you don't want the opposition to know too much.
00:38Yes.
00:41And sometimes, and the reality as well,
00:44because I haven't decided the line-up.
00:46Yeah.
00:47But there must be...
00:48They're doing rugby, for example, don't they?
00:50And you know rugby coaches very well,
00:52they make the team like three or four days before.
00:54It'll be interesting to see someone try.
00:56Yeah, we can try.
00:58I will encourage the other managers in the league to do that
01:00when we play against them.
01:01So, the day before, two days before, if possible,
01:03that they tell us who plays.
01:05That would be great.
01:06Ask that question to them and if we get that done,
01:08I'll give you a dinner.
01:10OK.
01:11Yes.
01:12Riquel, the other day, Ricky charged forward and did a back kill in the air at the bend,
01:21Gabby then shot over.
01:24Is Galafuri sort of controlled havoc or is he just havoc?
01:29I mean, is there any...
01:30Controlled.
01:31Controlled.
01:32Yeah.
01:33That word and Ricky, especially in the attacking phase, it doesn't match too much,
01:37but it's something that we want, you know, because he has this intuition,
01:41his capacity to smell danger, to attack spaces that are very difficult for the opponent to defend,
01:47and he does it in a way that for him is natural, which is always good.
01:51So, yeah, we encourage him to do that.
01:54Successfully, your left-backs you've had, of all I've inverted, have done something,
01:59but he seems to have taken it to a completely different level in the positions he can take on the pitch.
02:04Is that something that's just completely natural to him or have you worked with him on that?
02:10No, on the height that he's doing that, probably he's never done it before,
02:14because he used to do it as a centre-back, especially coming to the mid-field line.
02:19Further than that normally he doesn't do, but he has the ability to do that,
02:22and in pre-season, last pre-season we started to say, and you have the feeling that he flows,
02:28you know, and things happen naturally, and he's comfortable there,
02:31and he's more comfortable that playing probably in the mid-field line,
02:34and he's very comfortable every time he's stepping into the position box,
02:38and it gets better there, so we have to use that his quality.
02:41Conny was asked about the death of pressing, he said that teams are pressing less,
02:45including Arsenal this season, and he wondered whether it was to do with fatigue
02:48or whether teams are now going longer, so therefore the pressing is less.
02:53Is there a reason you think that teams are pressing less this season?
02:57Well, we had periods, and as well it goes to the fact that certain managers
03:03and certain teams had certain players to do it.
03:05After last week we played three games the week before,
03:09it was very man-orientated and a lot of pressing in the Chelsea game,
03:13it was insane in terms of that, the Bayern Munich won as well,
03:17let's see tomorrow what is the approach that Villa has,
03:20and we'll adapt in relation to that.
03:22Last couple.
03:23It was recently reported that Arsenal signed two Ecuadorian twins,
03:30Edwin and Holger Quintero,
03:32they're obviously not going to join until 2027.
03:34What's the thinking and rationale behind this?
03:37Is this a new approach by Arsenal to go overseas and get young kids over,
03:41and try and obviously buy them into the academy?
03:43Is it a new approach?
03:44Well, there is certainly something that I think is very positive.
03:49I mean, we can recruit the best talent that there is out there.
03:52Obviously, the rules and the limitation that the league provides in relation to using them
03:57before a certain age, it is a challenge.
04:00But we saw that as a good opportunity for us,
04:04and if we are ahead, I think that's something very positive.
04:08When did you start seeing this potential path?
04:10Was it other clubs, maybe like Chelsea, where you saw them bring young kids from abroad,
04:14or was it something else?
04:16Yeah, there's always been.
04:17I think for many years we have talked about that.
04:19The last week they were asking me about the multi-club possibilities as well,
04:24so it's something that is emerging there.
04:27For many clubs they've been doing it for years,
04:29in my opinion, a big advantage if you do it correctly,
04:32and we need to start somewhere.
04:34And that's what we did.
04:36From London and the surrounding areas,
04:38you've already produced massive talents,
04:40obviously Manchester United just one of them.
04:42Now, obviously going internationally,
04:43do you think on a more wider scale there could be
04:46further big talents from further afield?
04:49Yeah, for me the first intention obviously has to be
04:52to develop our own players in-house,
04:54but that doesn't mean that you have to close any doors for any talent that we have,
04:58that goes for players and it goes as well to staff, I think.
05:01OK, finally we go to Jack.
05:02Jack, there's a lot of talk about the depth that you now have this season
05:07after the summer,
05:08it was something you spoke about needing at the end of the last season.
05:11Did you think you'd need to use quite as many of them quite so soon into the season,
05:16given all the injuries you've had?
05:17Sorry, sorry.
05:18Did you need to rely on that depth quite as much as you have?
05:21Well, I think we have already used it in a great way.
05:25And not only the depth as well, but the versatility of the squad and the players
05:29that we have in certain positions to fulfil roles for periods of time
05:33that has been challenging in one specific line,
05:36now is another specific line as well.
05:38But to navigate in the way that we've done,
05:40I think it tells a lot about the character and the quality of the players.
05:43After what happened to Chelsea on Wednesday night at Leeds,
05:48I heard Roy Keane say somewhere that he thinks the title is going up
05:51and that you want to be the champions.
05:54How dangerous is it for anyone to listen to comments like that?
05:58I don't know.
05:59We know the reality,
06:00we know the reality that we played every three days,
06:03the quality of position that we have
06:05and how tough it is to win a football match
06:07and we sense it three days before,
06:09the week before and that's the reality in the league.
06:12So, just try to be as good as we can every day
06:15and they go day by day.
06:17Is this game maybe an example of that?
06:19Because if you look over the last ten games,
06:22Villa have got one point more than your team in the Premier League.
06:26They maybe have the level in centre of the Champions League,
06:29they've got Euro for league games.
06:31Is that a reminder of the level that everyone has got?
06:35Yeah, exactly that.
06:36I think I fully agree with that.
06:37There is the level and then there is as well
06:39the schedule that each team has had,
06:42you know,
06:43and we again have the player at home and away
06:45and I guess it's an opposition.
06:46There are a lot of factors
06:47and we are still very early in the season.
06:49OK guys, thanks very much.
06:51Yeah, thank you.
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