00:00Eze, just to ask you about it really, he's not played in the last three games or not come on, have you spoken to him at all?
00:07Yes, I speak to every player and the players always need to understand and the managers need to understand how each one is feeling,
00:15assess games, assess their emotional state.
00:18Eze has played more games, more minutes than ever at this time.
00:23He's played 22, I think, out of 28 games or something like this.
00:27He never played that much football, so we're on a good track.
00:30But does he have to do anything different?
00:32And obviously Nodani as well, because he's not played much recently.
00:35Obviously, two England international World Cup years.
00:38Can you understand why they were a bit so concerned?
00:41From who?
00:42Are they concerned about, obviously, they want to play as much as possible in the World Cup?
00:46No, I think what they need to do is be prepared like they've been and when they have the opportunity to play,
00:50perform like any other player, there's no difference.
00:53There have been periods that they have played every three days, sometimes they play too much.
00:58Nodani has been injured for a while and we have to manage and monitor, obviously, his load and with Eps.
01:05It's the first few months, we have some great moments with him.
01:08We have some other moments that there are things that we need to improve and we are on that journey.
01:13So it's important to be patient, basically?
01:16Well, to be patient, to be demanding, to be supportive is a bit of everything.
01:20And both of them, the good thing is they want it so badly.
01:23I mean, the way they come in every single day and how much they want to give to the team
01:28and impact the games, it's great to witness.
01:32And that's the mentality that I need to maintain.
01:35Yes, sir.
01:36Hi, Michael.
01:37Hi.
01:38With Ethan Winery, so of course he's not playing for the Bruges game,
01:41he wasn't in the squad the last game and then playing against Palace in the fourth final,
01:45which is obviously more of a fringe kind of game compared to the league ones.
01:48What's happening with him?
01:49Because remember last season, from January, he came from the Kaisaka,
01:52had an impact and now he seems to be getting slowly further out of it.
01:56Part of the journey for any player at this level.
02:00That's it.
02:01So before he was the youngest player ever to come in this football club
02:04and now he's going through that patch.
02:06Face it, challenge it and go for it.
02:09That's it.
02:10We've seen in recent seasons obviously New Year's Day top of the table
02:13and you've not got the results at the end that you would have wanted obviously
02:17in terms of the league.
02:19Psychologically, how do you think that you can pick City this time?
02:23What do you need to do differently mentally to get over the line?
02:26Because obviously we've seen the pressure they start upon in the second half of the campaign.
02:30Win more games.
02:31That's it.
02:32So I think from January to January we won more points again in the last three years
02:36than any other team in this league.
02:37Yeah?
02:38So we need more points.
02:39That's it.
02:40We need to win more games and be better.
02:41That's the only way.
02:42How about that pressure in the back of your mind though,
02:43when they're right behind you like 2-3 seasons?
02:46That's a privilege to be here and be where we are.
02:48That's an absolute privilege.
02:50That's what we want to be and that's what we want to face.
02:52You've got a chance to go seven points here with City,
02:58the way that the pitchers are shaped before they play Chelsea.
03:02How important do you think that could be to put some pressure on them over the course of the season,
03:06building up the league on City?
03:09The important thing is go to Bournemouth, be better than them and beat them
03:13and after that it's not in our control.
03:15It will be like this the following match and the following one and that's where we are.
03:20It sounds very simple, very difficult to do and we are so willing to achieve it.
03:25Is it quite important with that in mind to try and put the past, you know, not think about the past
03:31and just only focus on what you can try?
03:33Yeah, but learn.
03:34I think learning from the past is very important and we have a lot to learn
03:37in the last few games that we played against Bournemouth as well.
03:40So that's part of it.
03:41You have another chance now against them tomorrow and we have to learn and be better.
03:46If maturity is related to age or games played, yes, but maturity in one action,
04:01that you have to make an action and the play goes through or not and the referee has to make a decision,
04:06I don't know how much is that through maturity.
04:08There is another element that the more games we play, the more experiences that you have,
04:13probably you can handle the situation better, supposedly, but it's not always like that in football.
04:19Finally, Gary.
04:20How long does it take when people like Eze and Noni come in to learn the system
04:26and learn the requirements beyond they play different styles of the previous clubs?
04:31You obviously have a much more disciplined style.
04:33How long does that take?
04:35Discipline?
04:37What's that?
04:38Well, they expected a lot of the defensive duties and the other parts of it.
04:44That's your duty.
04:45I mean, I don't think it's related to discipline.
04:47I mean, you have to defend like any other player and you have to do that to help the team
04:52and to play in the manner that we want in the areas that we want to do.
04:55And I don't think, I think they are both of them so willing.
04:59They bring different things.
05:00They don't have their own qualities.
05:01They don't have their own education as well.
05:03Different styles of play, probably with Eze and Noni.
05:06Noni immediately, he clicked and he did that.
05:09Eze already had some great moments in the season.
05:12Mosquera is coming new.
05:13Kepa is coming new.
05:14Piero is coming new.
05:16Zubimendi is coming new.
05:18Immediate impact.
05:19So, that's it.
05:20But there are going to be moments where they have to adapt.
05:22We have to adapt to their qualities.
05:24Yes.
05:25But that's something natural.
05:26Can you just ask a question about the injuries?
05:28You know, earlier you said that you were looking into maybe why he was…
05:32Did you ever get any sort of kind of resolution about why Vikaio was having those little hamstring injuries
05:38and you said you were going to look into it?
05:40Well, there are a lot of factors.
05:41Obviously, the amount of games that he's played minutes is just incredible.
05:45So, at that age in Europe, in the last 30 years,
05:48there are very few that have played that many.
05:50So, we need to maintain that consistency of protecting him as much as we possibly can
05:57in certain areas.
05:58He needs to change our protocols.
06:00We need to change certain habits as well in training to do that.
06:03And then, yeah, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
06:07Is there anything you maybe would want the team to change
06:12or you were unhappy with the staff?
06:14Is there anything you'd kind of want to improve on for the next six months?
06:19Things that I want to improve?
06:21In every area.
06:23I don't know.
06:24I want to be better in the high press.
06:26I want to be better on phase one in build-up.
06:28We have to be more prolific when we have the chances attacking the box.
06:32We have margins when we have situations to run in open spaces.
06:35As well, when we have to have periods in deep, especially recently as well,
06:40we have to improve in those areas.
06:41The last minute, there are a lot of things as a team that we can improve.
06:44Thanks, guys.
06:45Yeah.
06:46Thank you very much.
06:49Bye-bye.
06:52Thank you very much.
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