00:00Hi Pep, first let's start with the big news of Anton Semenyu's arrival from Bournemouth.
00:08What qualities do you see in him to help his side and how do you see him fitting in?
00:14Everybody knows the qualities right, so I play extraordinary.
00:19In Bournemouth in the last years he can play in both sides, right, left.
00:24He used the ball's legs unbelievably and strikers as well can play for his pace.
00:31He knows the Premier League, so many clubs want him and he decided to join us.
00:37All I can say is thanks to him.
00:40I'm really pleased for the next years.
00:44How long have you looked at him for and is it particularly pleasing you chose yourselves over other clubs that were interested?
00:50For a few years.
00:53A long time we follow him and at the end for the situation we have up front in the wingers,
00:59we have three specific players like Oskar, Savio and Jeremy.
01:07So we need to reinforce for the next years and that's why the club make the gesture,
01:14the effort to take him and have a perfect age, 25-26 years old for the best years to come.
01:21Like they have done the club to try to bring young players to make his career his best years here.
01:30Could he go straight in for tomorrow's game against Exeter?
01:33We will be selected, I don't know if we want to start or not, but we will be selected for sure.
01:37We don't have too many players, I would say.
01:40And one in so far in January, are you trying to do more business this month maybe?
01:44Sorry?
01:45One player in so far, are you trying to do more business this month?
01:48I don't know.
01:49I cannot answer that question.
01:51Mark?
01:52Hi Pep, how good can Antoine Semenyo be?
01:58How high is his ceiling?
01:59Is he a player that could score for example 20-25 goals a season in the Premier League?
02:04Yeah, I will sign.
02:07I don't know.
02:09I have to adapt quick.
02:10He will adapt quick because the group is exceptional.
02:13The club is really good and he will adapt quick.
02:17Can I also ask you about the academy because you said on Tuesday tours that sometimes you regret not giving more academy players opportunities.
02:26But if you look at this sort of generation with the likes of Nico O'Reilly, James Trafford, Charlie Gray who has played this season.
02:32How special is this generation of academy players coming through at Manchester City?
02:36Yeah, Enrico Lewis in the past.
02:39Of course, I think since I arrived here I always have a good type of players, you know, for the academy.
02:46Some of them stay with us, some of them are shining in the Premier League.
02:50So, yeah, I'm really pleased.
02:52The academy for Manchester City always works really good.
02:56All Europe take an eye on us.
02:59You came through the academy obviously at Barcelona.
03:01What do you remember of that and what kind of advice do you give them if they're going to play, say for example, in a game like tomorrow?
03:05I'm never disappointed.
03:07Academy players never disappoint you.
03:09Look, Max, last game, the composer against a difficult situation for many reasons,
03:15how good he played during 90 minutes in just one training session.
03:19Academy players know the, I don't know, the smell of the club, the vibe is easier.
03:24It happened in Barcelona in my period as well.
03:26So, every time you, the best is when he's surrounded for the senior players, you know,
03:32with the no start eleven, I would say, but important everybody knows.
03:37And you add one player, it's not a problem.
03:39The problem is when you come in with three, four or five academy players all together,
03:44that is a little bit more difficult.
03:47But never disappoint you.
03:49It depends on them.
03:50Of course, not all of them can play.
03:52Not all of them are ready.
03:53But when they are in the right mindset and the skills always are there,
04:02so I'll never disappoint you.
04:04Hi, Pep.
04:05You just said you never know when a player is ready to play for the first team,
04:10but obviously Max played really well, didn't he, in the week.
04:12I mean, what conversations have you had with him since that performance?
04:16Nothing.
04:17I didn't speak with him after the game.
04:21Before the game, as we talk about them, be yourself.
04:24Which is the reason why, which attributes you have,
04:27what is the reason why you are playing today?
04:29Just do it.
04:30No, I don't ask you anything you cannot do.
04:33Just be courage to do what you are.
04:35No more.
04:36Has he shown you that he now is ready to play more first-team football for you
04:40between now and the end of the season?
04:42The situation we have, yes, definitely.
04:45And on Antoine coming in again,
04:48what are the challenges for a player moving between clubs in the middle of a season?
04:53Because it's not like you have a pre-season to work with him
04:55for him to understand how you play tactically.
04:57What are the biggest challenges facing Antoine?
05:00The challenges will be the same as I said before to Max.
05:04You are a winger, make the action as a winger.
05:07So I think with Andoni Raul, I improve a lot in Bournemouth.
05:12And I understand he doesn't come here for one game, two games, three games.
05:17He comes for many years.
05:18So I have all the time in the world.
05:20I know he's an exceptional guy for the info that we have.
05:23The team will embrace him because the specific group of players in the club
05:30always make the people when he arrives so comfortable and he will adapt quick.
05:35You talk a lot about the energy of your group and body language, things like that.
05:42In some Januaries you've chosen to do business, in other Januaries you haven't.
05:46When players have come in, particularly mid-season,
05:48is it something you feel can lift the energy and body language of the rest of the group,
05:52particularly when it's someone who's come from the Premier League
05:54who they'll all know so well and know the qualities of?
05:57We come sometimes for opportunities, sometimes because we have incredible problems
06:01for the Ingers, for people leaving the club and after they arrive.
06:09Otherwise, last season was an incredibly exceptional,
06:12but normally in the previous seasons we never went a lot to the transfer window
06:17in the wintertime to do it.
06:21This is the reasons.
06:24A team, a squad is always a life.
06:27Sometimes you arrive here in August and say,
06:30OK, you have the squad for the next four, five, six years because he's young.
06:35It's not true.
06:36It's a life completely.
06:38In three months it changes a lot.
06:40At the end of the season it changes a lot.
06:42But the players are in satisfaction, the players' conditions cannot be happy
06:46or the players are happy or opportunities in the transfers.
06:50For many, many reasons.
06:51So that's why it always has to be alert and the team changing.
06:56Is it a team you've been able to see much of?
07:05What will you expect from them?
07:06Sorry?
07:07What will you expect from them tomorrow?
07:09When I arrived here ten years ago when we played in teams in low divisions,
07:18like League One is the case or Championship always is a typical football,
07:22and now you see the team they have a ball.
07:25So they play really good.
07:26I saw the game against Huddersfield and Cardiff,
07:30the last two games he played recently and it didn't happen ten years ago.
07:37So huge respect.
07:39And always I believe when the best way to respect this time of competition,
07:45the FA Cup, but obviously we'll have respect just seeing what happened
07:48in the last years in this competition.
07:50And when we play against that teams in lower divisions,
07:53how you respect them, how you play, how you defend, how you press,
07:58many, many details that you have to do, do it well.
08:01That is the best way to respect Exester or all the teams you play.
08:05Just to ask about Oskar, what is the situation with him?
08:10He's still injured.
08:11He's not trained with us in the game against Brentford, the Carabao.
08:21Did you watch Arsenal and Liverpool last night?
08:24No, I could not.
08:26Obviously you have to focus on yourself and you need to get more points
08:33to try to catch them, but after three draws,
08:37is it lifting to see them dropping points as well?
08:40No, it's better, of course.
08:42The team on top of the league is dropping points better,
08:45but if we make that analysis after three draws
08:48and we are not able to win that game,
08:51it's better to think ourselves, right?
08:54So, it would be a huge mistake if you think that the situation is better
09:01because a fantastic team like Liverpool can make equalise a game in Emirates.
09:07So, it's better to think ourselves because always one of these incredible attributes
09:11we had as a team in the previous years is always we found a way to win games.
09:15Don't tell me why, but always we found a way to win games.
09:19Quite similar, even worse than the last three that we draw.
09:22But believe me, even worse.
09:24But we were able to do it.
09:26But this is what I said, this time of question of the process.
09:31So, that our game in Nottingham Forest that we won was miles away worse
09:36than the game in Sunderland and the way in Chelsea
09:39and the way against Brighton in terms of play, in terms of chances,
09:44in terms of many things.
09:45But we didn't find a way.
09:47And I said, no, no, that isn't fair.
09:49Of course, it's fair.
09:50When you draw a game, it's fair.
09:52When you lose a game, it's fair.
09:54Because you have to do better.
09:56And only we can do is remember ourselves.
09:59And I'm not watching Arsenal Liverpool to think I am relieved or something like that.
10:04Of course, it's better to be at six points than eight points.
10:06Everybody knows it, but the reality is the reality.
10:10So, we have to meet an incredible amount of tough games we had otherwise
10:14to be contenders to win the Premier League.
10:16So, in terms of points, 51 to play, six is a difference.
10:20Everything is open.
10:22So, everyone can realise that.
10:24But it's not about that.
10:26That we are able to make things, just a few things, a little bit better.
10:31And what I said in the past,
10:34is again another process to grow, grow as a team, as a group of players.
10:39They are so, so new in many things.
10:42And it's important, for example, to leave the semi-final,
10:45to leave the experience, to leave the final for many players
10:47and never play a final.
10:49So, that is the process we are building.
10:53And in the same time, for other things,
10:55they are so optimistic, positive and happy
10:59that many, many things we are doing really well.
11:02Certainly more than there for 10.30pm.
11:05We'll get further.
11:07I'll try a real moment.
11:08Otherwise, maybe we'll click.
11:09Maybe we willì me.
11:10I've kind of started in the without none.
11:11You see someone is looking for me.
11:12If someone is thinking.
11:13There's someone who is pushing.
11:14You see someone who is pushing.
11:15And you see someone who stops.
11:16And you see someone who uses.
11:17They're pushing.
11:18And you're pushing.
11:19And you just have to wait for me.
11:21But I've got a reason.
11:22You've got something.
11:23And you don't know that.
11:24Especially, that's what's...
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