00:00Hi Pep, you had a brilliant result at St James' Park a couple of weeks ago.
00:09What would it mean to you if you could get back to Wembley and get into the final tomorrow night?
00:15This is the point today and tomorrow we are in the chance to make our fifth final in 10 years in the Carabao Cup.
00:24It is of course a good result. I prefer to start with a 2-0 up but I know perfectly how many times we played against Newcastle.
00:36They have a Champions League team and we have to be prepared and see how the players recover for the tough game in Spurs.
00:45We play in our game for our people and our fans and try to reach Wembley in March.
00:53You've got a lot of new players in your squad who haven't won a trophy yet with Manchester City.
00:58How big would it be for them if you can go and lift the Carabao Cup this season?
01:02Yes, start to play finals. It is really good for most of them.
01:08It will be for the club, for everyone, so important.
01:13Is tomorrow not just about reaching the final but about building momentum and gaining confidence following the sort of mixed January that you had?
01:23Yes, but there are different competitions. When you play Carabao Cup it is a competition.
01:30Champions League is another one and Premier League and the other one.
01:34Yeah, of course it helps. But I'm confident in every action and every five minutes and building and breathe in the bad actions, bad moments and forget immediately and go for the next one.
01:532-0 in front in this tie, you let slip a 2-0 lead on Sunday. Why do you think the side has struggled at times in the second half this season?
02:04Yeah, it's a reality. It's a reality. We dropped what we got in the first and maybe as a young team, the younger side we had in 10 years and maybe we need to leave it and maybe we stopped trying to do what they have done in the first half and yeah, we have to grow with that definitely.
02:27And Marc Gahey ineligible tomorrow, a chance for someone like Marc Solene to step up.
02:34Yeah, Antoine can play and Marc, no.
02:38Yeah, okay, play another one.
02:42Hi Pep, was Ryan Cherky alright when he came off Spurs?
02:48Have a knock and we'll see today how does he feel.
02:52Any nearer to knowing how long Jeremy and Ruben Diaz might be out for?
02:58Ruben started to train yesterday and Jeremy not yet.
03:01Hi Pep, can I just ask about the end of the transfer window? Obviously, Calvin left yesterday. I know he's been back training with you.
03:13Have you got any kind of words of encouragement for him because he's had a really difficult few years, hasn't he, Calvin?
03:19Yeah, definitely trained last days because he was injured in the previous and of course he has to take minutes, minutes to recover his best.
03:29And he has to play, have made some loans and how he is as a guy, everyone is desperate to, you know, he can come back and play minutes and be his best because he deserves it.
03:41How much has he struggled over the last few years? Because talking a lot about him yesterday, 2021, he was England's Senior Men's Player of the Year.
03:51He got promoted with Leeds. He got the kind of dream move a year later here and it just really didn't or hasn't worked out to this point for him.
03:58How difficult has it been for him, do you think?
04:00Yeah, it's true. But most of the time it was for the setbacks for the injuries. Have long injuries, first half on the shoulders and after problems with knees and ankles and hamstrings.
04:09And yeah, struggle with that. Have a player, not just Calvin, have no continuity, you know, being available to play was more difficult.
04:18The general consensus today is that Man City have probably had the best transfer window of all the clubs in the Premier League.
04:26How much credit does Hugo Viana take for the players he's been able to sign for you in the middle of a season?
04:32Yeah, really good. Really good. Hugo Chiqui before, Hugo now. I'm a little bit sad and upset because in net spend the last five years,
04:42we are the seven in the Premier League. So I want to be the first. I don't understand how the club don't spend more money.
04:49So I'm a little bit grumpy with them. But with that position like we won in the past because we spent a lot.
04:56Now six teams have to win the Premier League and the Champions League is in FA Cup because they spent more in the last five years.
05:01This is a fact, you know, it's not, I would say, an opinion. You know, you can say an opinion, for example, like you say,
05:09you play good or play bad against the Spurs. So we can be agree or disagree.
05:14And but that is facts. So good luck for the six teams who are in front of us to spend net in the last five years.
05:22Let's go. I'm waiting.
05:25It's a nice, nice, nice quota.
05:30Here we are.
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