00:01After the transfers you paid in the summer, you had a lot of money.
00:05Are you there now?
00:07That's another question for me.
00:10At least we have the responsibility to do that.
00:12It's true that we have done certain deals,
00:14but they're different to the top clubs, I think.
00:17So there is sort of scope to work with?
00:20Well, we have to see whether the parameters that we have,
00:22at least we have to have the options, then present them,
00:25and then is it possible, yes or not.
00:27That's not my decision.
00:29Are you confident?
00:31No, we are on it.
00:33It's not confident and uncomfortable.
00:35Sorry, I'm confident.
00:36It's just the fact that you want to make the right call with the right player,
00:40because we really want to improve the team if we can.
00:42If not, we don't do it.
00:44Just a follow-up from Jamie's question on Eze.
00:47He played on the left against Villa,
00:49and there was that goal that Matthew Cash scored.
00:51I think you could see that it was quite frustrating that he hadn't maybe tracked it.
00:55I wondered if that's come into your mind.
00:56I don't think he's played left wing since.
00:58Is that one of the things he has to sort of, in this team, in this squad, defensively be aware of?
01:02But this happens.
01:04I mean, every time we stop a goal, there is somebody that he didn't do
01:07or we expect him to do something.
01:09That's part of football.
01:10We move on from there.
01:12And as well, that's a responsibility of mine as well.
01:15If I put a player to play in a position that for weeks hasn't played,
01:18as well, I know what I can demand him and what I cannot demand him.
01:21Yes, sir?
01:22I'm going to cut.
01:23With Kappa, Riz Baraga in the ticket…
01:25Kappa who?
01:26Riz Baraga.
01:27Kappa who?
01:32Kappa who?
01:33When you signed him, he was obviously the world's most expensive keeper.
01:39He still is the world's most expensive keeper.
01:41How on earth did you convince him to come here and be the number two?
01:47How on earth?
01:48How on earth?
01:49Yes.
01:50To be fair, the first conversations were with Iñaki.
01:53And Iñaki explained the possibility.
01:58I think they had a relationship before.
02:00Then Iñaki presented to me.
02:02I really like it.
02:04I have a lot of friends and people who I have worked with him for many years.
02:09And I said, listen, we have the chance, let's do it.
02:11So I spoke to him.
02:12He was very open.
02:13He was very excited.
02:15He was coming here to compete.
02:17On top of that, I had a great relationship with David.
02:20So, yeah, I think he felt that it was the right move for him.
02:24From what you've seen, how good is he?
02:25Would he start for another top Premier League team?
02:27He's only 30.
02:28He probably has ambitions to go much further and just be a number two.
02:34Yeah, well, he has an unbelievable career and has won many, many trophies.
02:38So, yeah, we are very lucky to have him when he plays, when he doesn't play
02:44and every single day here in the building.
02:46Could he potentially start at some point if Ryan ends up, obviously,
02:50somehow going through a different form or whatnot?
02:53Yes, I mean, it's like any other position.
02:55I always say that.
02:56And even though the keeper said it was very special, yes,
03:00but at the end they have to end the right to play.
03:02That way he's playing more because he's been excellent as well.
03:04Hi, Michael.
03:05There's a lot of players in your squad that are still yet to win a trophy at Arsenal.
03:10What do you think it would do for them if you could go all the way in the Carabao Cup
03:14and set yourself up for the rest of the season in terms of their confidence?
03:17Well, first of all, because you work to win major trophies
03:21and the enjoyment that that brings, as you said, the confidence, the trust, the belief,
03:25and unlock something on you and then you want more.
03:30And it's a cycle that you want to repeat constantly and we still have to do that
03:35and some of them have never done it, so it's always the first time.
03:38Did you sense that after the weekend obviously had a great result in the Premier League,
03:44did you sense that there's that real belief among the players to do it this time?
03:49Yeah, I think the group is really convinced that we have the ability to do it
03:53and then we are very conscious that that's nothing
03:56because we have to do it every single day and that's what we focus on.
04:00And just in terms of tomorrow's game, it's your first home game since you lost to United.
04:04How do you stop the crowd getting anxious if you don't want a good start,
04:08if you can see the early goal?
04:10I don't expect that. I expect the crowd, like it's been all season with us
04:13and the last few seasons with us, we have some incredible moments together
04:17and tomorrow we have an opportunity to go to Wembley all together.
04:21So we have to push all the energy, optimism that we can all together,
04:25take that and in a few weeks be in Wembley together.
04:28Just the last couple of Simon from the side.
04:30Mikel, I want to ask for you, is part of the hungry motivation given the fact
04:35that your last Cup final at Wembley was such a strange experience
04:38with no fans there and you haven't really had the opportunity
04:41to experience a proper Cup final at Wembley?
04:44Yeah, that's a part of it. The big one is to get the team, the players
04:49and all of our supporters together to enjoy that moment.
04:53And that's what it really drives me.
04:55Obviously the semi-final record going into this two-legged,
04:59you'd struggled in the past four.
05:01Do you feel like the mentality of the players, they've learned from those semi-final defeats?
05:05Do you sense across these two lengths, you've seen a difference in them
05:08and how they're kind of approaching?
05:10Yes, but every semi-final and every competition is different.
05:14Tomorrow we're going to have to prove it.
05:15We did it very well in the Stamford Bridge for a big period of the game
05:19and tomorrow we're going to have to do it for the entire game.
05:21Can I just ask you one more thing? We've spoken to you about midfielder
05:24and Mikel being out. You've obviously got Alex Oxley-Chamen
05:28who is here literally in the building. Is there any sort of scope
05:31for using him as someone for the rest of the season or is that very much a fitness space thing?
05:35We explore every option.
05:38Yeah?
05:39And finally to John.
05:41A lot of clubs don't really care about the Carabao Conference.
05:45No, no club. A lot of clubs you said.
05:49I don't think many.
05:50Which ones?
05:52Which clubs?
05:54The ones who don't do very well in it.
05:56Sorry, which clubs?
05:57The clubs who play their kids and get knocked out.
05:59Ah, okay.
06:00But you were at Manchester City, you did take it seriously.
06:03Part of winning the silver wheel for Leeson regularly.
06:08Is that something you brought from City and wanted to introduce here?
06:12I think that's something that has changed a lot over the years
06:15with the Carabao Cup and how that competition has been approached.
06:20But yeah, we are on it.
06:22I mean, you have to prioritise at some point in relation to the squad
06:25or the circumstances that we have.
06:27We have years here where we are very struggling with numbers as well
06:30and we have to play other kinds of players.
06:32and now we are in a different situation.
06:35It is the least important ball, but...
06:38I think you two have to agree.
06:40It's the least...
06:41He says it's the most because it's tomorrow
06:43and then the Carabao Cup goes...
06:45It's the most because it's tomorrow
06:47and it's the one that we really want to play.
06:49Yeah.
06:50It is the least important ball.
06:52There's been a lot of noise about style of play.
06:55Does it matter to you how anything is one?
06:57If it's a cup one, do you care how it's one?
07:01How it's one?
07:02Yeah, yeah.
07:03The style of play, entertainment or all this outside noise.
07:05I know you don't like outside noise.
07:06But do you care?
07:07Does it matter to you?
07:08Well, it depends.
07:09I don't know.
07:10I would have to analyse about which teams they are talking about,
07:13about which styles and in which kind of game.
07:24The game that we expect tomorrow is going to be very specific
07:27and very clear what is going to happen.
07:29So it depends.
07:30You have to play very well the game that you have to play
07:33because it's not only what you have to do,
07:35it's an opponent very close to you that wants to take the game
07:38to a different scenario.
07:40People say that your style is not very exciting.
07:46I heard completely the opposite.
07:48All around Europe that we are the most exciting team in Europe,
07:51the most goals, the most clean sheets, the most this.
07:54So maybe I have different resources.
07:56Why do you think people are saying this?
07:59I have no idea.
08:01I don't know which people you tell me the names and the surname
08:03and the address and the email.
08:05Maybe we can talk.
08:06But we are talking because I can give you a massive book
08:09of other people.
08:10Mr. Paul Sculls of Manchester.
08:12Sorry?
08:13Mr. Paul Sculls of Manchester.
08:15Okay.
08:16Good.
08:17Thank you very much.
08:18Thanks, everyone, guys.
08:19Cheers.
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