00:00You mentioned the Club World Cup. Are you able to give us a little bit of insight and detail into what you discussed?
00:09Energy. Energy. Energy. We're back. Energy. We lost last season. Me first and everyone. Energy.
00:16Start to train better, start to compete better. Energy. Without that, that is the first action.
00:22After we can talk with three in the back, four in the back. Wingers, four in the back. That is bullshit.
00:27It has to be for energy and that will come back in a good environment.
00:31When I was out against Halilal in the World Cup, it's not the fact we didn't win the World Cup.
00:39It's the fact we were so good there. It's time of holidays, no? I said, okay, we're going to holidays.
00:44I was pissed off because I'm good here with the guys training. I'm good in the competition.
00:49The place that we are in Boca Raton in front of the beach and everybody was happy.
00:53Play golf with the people. Make a lot of dinners, a lot of talks. What happens next season? We have to do that.
00:59And we would extend just to leave that, you know, when you are comfortable in one place.
01:03And, yeah, that was. But I think then, after that, after a week, we talked with Pep, with James, with Manel, with Hugo, with Chiqui.
01:13Something change. Something is not means it's going to win, but be recognized as a team to make now eight victories in a row.
01:24Like it's not easy and compete in the way and the way we do it. And I can't improve. Absolutely.
01:30Absolutely. But with this mindset, it's better.
01:35Can I just ask you, in the first weeks of the season, when we went down to Brighton and saw Brighton were really good in that second half,
01:42but it didn't look like the players had an answer to what Brighton were doing. What was going through your mind?
01:48Well, see, we were, we were in that time, knowing a little bit players in the best way to suit to play.
01:54Sometimes you need time. And talk with the players and say, oh, and the way we press here, we're not comfortable.
02:00And the handling is not good to go in a half spaces or it's too risky or whatever, or, you know, sometimes you need.
02:06It's not to have a manager. We are not a magician. OK, we're going to do and everything is click.
02:10Sometimes you have to, you know, win or, for example, first half with Mateus.
02:17Mateus in the right, in the right back, look Savio.
02:22With Savio, arrive five, six times. I adore Savio. Savio take the ball, lose the first ball, second, third and fourth.
02:29And arrive in the byline in the first half. Sometimes you have to discover the way they play the team.
02:35You have just one winger now and the other ones are injured. So you have to adapt the way.
02:39I didn't expect Nico O'Reilly make this performance like it's performing, right?
02:44So always you need some time. Realise yourself as well. So, oh, we proved that it doesn't work.
02:50We have to change a little bit, a little bit. Because new players, there's a new...
02:53And the opponents always face us in different ways. So that's why sometimes you need time.
03:01And winning helps, you know, to advance this process, to reduce, you know, the timing to be a better team, a better team.
03:08You say there was a lack of energy last season, maybe. Did that extend to you?
03:14The first? Yeah.
03:15How was I put? Did you last season, how many times did you see me here in front judging or criticising the players of the club? Tell me.
03:24I could, huh? I have a big number in my career as a manager. How many? Never, ever.
03:30So because it's not about you or you or you. It was something was in the fog of Manchester, surround our training centre that we miss it.
03:42So how do you get that energy back yourself? How do you rediscover that? Is it mental? Is it something you do physically? Is it approach?
03:49Yeah, everything. The same details. It's not a switch on switch off about that. But it's about the results helps and about the mythology and Pep Linders and James and Kolo Ture and new players.
04:02I want to help them, you know, when you have seven, eight players with the same players at the end.
04:08Ah, Pep, it's tired of new players. How is this guy? How is that guy? And, you know, these kind of things and try and analyse and say it's not going well against sports.
04:17Why it happened? Now it's going in a lot of my marking. It's trying to, the energy comes from there. Especially, let me be clear and honest, when you win games, the energy is more there.
04:27And you've got that back then? You've personally had that back then?
04:29Today I'm managing today as a, I came overweight for the Christmas time, but today I lost it again. So I'm fit again.
04:38It was a nightmare. You understand me, it was a really, really tough, tough, tough game. The opponent is nice. I just congratulate.
04:46I saw that in the, I was thinking in the 70 minutes, 75, if we draw, we lose. Congratulate for us because we deserve it.
04:54The way, the passion they play is the Premier League.
04:58Pep, were you worried that that energy might not come back, obviously, that it's great to defeat?
05:01Last season? No.
05:03The same energy, when you have, can go down, when it's gone, can go up.
05:10In our lives, never is like that. Never.
05:13In our professional life, personal life, you will never be happy all the time, right? Never.
05:17You will never start all the time.
05:19You have to realise why, you know, what we miss, to come back.
05:25You know, and maybe next day it will be, it doesn't matter. So, because everything in life is a centre, right?
05:33These two shall pass, no? Always like that, in the good and the bad moments.
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