00:00Good evening everyone, I hope you're well. We'll take a share of answers for questions
00:14please and we'll set an embargo towards the end for 10.30pm on Sunday evening. Somewhere
00:19to start please? Start with Sham. Thank you.
00:22I bet you needed to win to close the gap on Arsenal and you've done just that, you needed
00:31to stay in touch and you are doing it come the end of this year.
00:37Yeah, we can talk, of course it's better to be closer and closer than the top of the
00:42league but from my experience, I'm sorry, I don't want to feel arrogant but I have quite
00:47experienced to win the Premier League or the titles, it's the consistency. And the consistency
00:52comes just for one thing, for the way you play. Not for the result one day or victory two
00:57points behind or four points in front, it's the consistency to be how you perform, how
01:01much you grow during the year. And today has been maybe one of the best performers of the
01:05year, the season, during 95-94 minutes. We have a good momentum, but our second half starts
01:12from both, we talk about that. The first half was really good, the second half we suffer.
01:17We are not consistent in 90 minutes and we talk about the reason why. And because we
01:23did really good things against the first half and we stopped to do it in the second half.
01:27And they see it, we talk about that, it's not about specific movement defensively or offensively.
01:34And today, during 90 minutes and the team, it's not necessary to say what they have done
01:38so far against top teams. The results, we concede one chance, we give away again. But apart
01:45of that, of course, the first half in general, it was a good performance. And of course, you
01:53know, the Premier League had the feeling that even today they drop points, Arsenal is going
01:58to drop few, few, few, few points. You want to be there, you have to win games, games and
02:02games come from the way you perform, not just for a lucky day or a lucky action.
02:10Ryan Cherky created more chances than any player on the pitch. Incredible assist as well. Was that
02:17his best game in a City share so far?
02:19Ryan is an exceptional player, so young. I have a huge personality proving against Fulham
02:26him in the toughest moment, 5-4 or 3-5-4, come there. And every time he had the ball, give
02:31us extra passes and continuity. It's not scary. Having self-confidence to him in the final
02:37third have something special. Especially Craig, what I admire the most on Ryan is not the skills.
02:44I never saw Messi play, make a cross like I've done. Messi is the best player play that game.
02:50And I never saw this kind of crosses. The crosses is fine, it's fine. It doesn't matter. Right, left,
02:55with a part of your feet, with a head, it doesn't matter. If it's effective, it's fine. But I like the
03:02simplicity because I learned from Messi that they never make a mistake, they never make a mistake with
03:07the simple things. Never. Simple things he does perfectly. And after dribble, 4-5. And what I want to
03:14the players, the simplest things do it well. And after that, if you do this, listen, you play,
03:19you have a special talent, the mum and dad gave it to you, and he can do whatever you want.
03:23But if it doesn't work, now we'll be in problem. So now we'll be in trouble.
03:28Hi, Pep. Is the key to you being successful this season, the mentality of the players,
03:32the approach, being brave, sort of on the front foot?
03:38Yeah, I think also always they had, except last season for obvious reasons that everybody knows it.
03:44We don't have players, but important is when happening in the beginning of the season,
03:49the first five games, six games, ten games, it's not going well, something, it's not a problem.
03:53As much as they follow me, or they follow us, the staff, and telling guys, the reason why is that.
03:59If we improve that, we'll be a better team. And next win, a better team. And after that,
04:04we are in a good path. When they don't follow us and say, no, that is not the reason why. And after
04:08that, we will be in trouble. And that is the point. I want to see the team growing.
04:16You know, as a, as a, because I said, so in local stage, in one game, in Champions League,
04:22in FA Cup, one game, you play, but it doesn't matter. But in the Premier League, it's a long,
04:25three fixtures has to be, has to be the performance. The performance dictates,
04:32dictates if you will be there or not. The rest, you can, I'm honest enough, when we win a game,
04:38it helped me a lot. 5-4 against Fulham, 4-5, oh, it's top, we won three points. I said,
04:42if we continue to do what happens in the second half, we'll stop to do it in the first.
04:48No chance. We'll lose everywhere. Because that league, you know, you can beat three,
04:57four, five, six games in a row and you don't win a game. It happened to us last season. So,
05:02it happened for many teams this season. So, that's why the way you play will be the key for the future.
05:08Hi, Pep. What did you think of the challenge on Mateus at the end of the game for the red card?
05:13And how is Mateus?
05:14Listen, it's fine. It was lucky that it was not the leg on the grass. It was in, in the moment, it was on top.
05:24To be honest, I thought that was like the first action with Josco in the first half.
05:29That's the dive scene in the TV. It's wow. We're lucky that it's good.
05:34Pep, you talked about Cherki having a personality. How important is it that when you come to recruit
05:42players that they do have that kind of personality?
05:44It's the key. It's the key. The skills, the blind guy realise. If you go to the biggest stages away,
05:52or we're really under pressure, it's like a friendly game for them. That is important.
05:59Players have to be in the important teams. To discover that is so difficult. Because you always see the
06:05teams, the players in the skills, you know, actions, the player. But you don't know how he behaves in Anfield and
06:12Old Trafford, Arsenal away, or 79 minutes. We need to step up and do it. Friendly games, everybody do it. With 3-0, everybody.
06:25No, no. The question is, in the toughest moments, he said, I'm going to win the game. I'm going to perform.
06:31When you have a lot of these ones, and I had a lot of these ones in my career as a manager,
06:37until you can have success. Without that, no tactics exist. Nothing.
06:46How impressed have you been with Ryan
06:49Cherky understanding what he needs to do in the sort of final third with you? Because it's not always...
06:54Attacking players sometimes find it difficult to know when to play.
06:58No, I like... I will like to tell them, move in that spaces, but after we have the ball,
07:06and not do whatever you want. You know, before the cross have done, I don't make a pause. I said,
07:13now Ryan put the ball to the right leg behind the left and cross. So they have to play.
07:20We tell them for the way the defense, the opponent attack or defense, what they have to do to do together.
07:25So Ryan has played always in his career. I have been, I'm pretty sure, I didn't know about 12,
07:3013, 14, 15 years old, better than all his mates. By far. And I have the feeling he has done whatever
07:36he wants. He has to do what he has to do for the team. And when he's able to do it, he will play a
07:43lot of minutes during many, many years in this club, because he's a special quality. But he has to do it. Otherwise...
07:49Have you sort of seen an improvement in, in that side of his game in recent, in recent weeks? Maybe
07:56since he come back from Madrid? Maybe he has realized when he hasn't played much, you know,
08:00in the bench, maybe he has to realize, and that it's so important to, to do it. Today was an action
08:07in Fulham that Savio went, lose the ball, in the final, the action for the cross, in the second post,
08:14and Erling go, you know, he had to go to the post, continue, and he's a run back. He was there. And I told
08:23him, so today lost one or two balls, in two seconds was a football. Savio is going to play a lot of minutes.
08:29Without that, they know it, the secret of the team. And after the quality of Savio, the quality of Ryan,
08:35the quality of Dodd is, I don't care. But they will do the things that make the team stable, and try it, and try it.
08:41And try another run all the time, and Phil run all the time, and Jeremy's improving a lot. And, you know,
08:47that is the key. Today, I was incredible pleased for the 50-20 minutes from Savio. Incredible.
08:55Two actions, lose the ball, was a machine. He doesn't like to listen, but I have to tell them.
09:00Because what happened in that, you make an incredible cross, it was a 5-2,
09:06or 6-2 or 6-3 in that moment. No, you lose the ball and you're walking, you come from the bench,
09:10you have to run double, because the other guys are tired. And today has done it three times,
09:14three times. Like a machine, make a fault and go there. Savio is going to play a lot of minutes.
09:20He's going to play with us. We'll set the embargo left at 10.30pm on Sunday evening. Go to Rob, please.
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