00:00How do you love the players?
00:02How do you love the players?
00:04When you need to love the players,
00:06how do you love the players?
00:08That's not a choice that I have to make.
00:10I love them and that's it.
00:11Like my kids, regardless of...
00:13How would you stroke them?
00:16If I hug them, kiss them
00:18or I take them home.
00:22I write them love letters.
00:25The way I interact
00:26with them, the way I communicate
00:28with them, the way I try
00:30to support them and make them feel
00:31that I'm here, that we are all here.
00:34It's not that I love them, we love them.
00:36Because it's impossible not to.
00:38I mean, when you are ten minutes in that direction
00:39or around the building and you interact with them,
00:42it is impossible not to, believe me.
00:44Even if you try hard,
00:45I think they will win you.
00:48In the Amazon year,
00:50there was a clip of you
00:53asking for Verizon
00:54and Palace...
00:54I haven't watched it there, so...
00:56Give me context.
00:57Were you quite critical
00:59to play inside the dressing room?
01:01Mm-hmm.
01:01Would you have been as critical
01:02this week with them?
01:04Or do you feel like...
01:05Would you ask for Wednesday?
01:07Or is it a carrot...
01:09Would you be critical
01:10and then maybe the following day
01:12be softer with them
01:13so they have both sides?
01:15No, this time I haven't done...
01:16I can't remember which game you said it was?
01:18It was in Palace and Brighton in 2020.
01:23No, I remember.
01:26It wasn't the same.
01:27Sam?
01:28In the first few years
01:30when you were here,
01:31there were moments
01:32when you were quite critical to us
01:34about the players and the performance.
01:36I remember talking about
01:37standards not being good enough for them
01:38and that sort of thing.
01:39It feels this season
01:41like you're much more...
01:42I guess loving is the word we're using
01:44and sort of supportive towards you.
01:47Is that a shift in you
01:49that you've made as a manager?
01:51Or are you telling us
01:51something maybe different
01:52to what's happening inside?
01:54No, no.
01:55Well, I think I always...
01:57When we haven't been our standards,
01:59I take full responsibility for that.
02:01I don't think I have ever pointed
02:02a single player here or the team.
02:05I can talk about the standards, yes,
02:07in the second half.
02:08We weren't our standards,
02:10which is normal when we play
02:12the amount of games that we play as well.
02:15But if there is any critics
02:16or anyone responsible,
02:18that's me.
02:19I think what I'm trying to ask is
02:22I think a lot of the fans
02:24who would have left walks
02:25on Wednesday night
02:25were just really angry.
02:27And that seems to be the move,
02:28like really angry.
02:29You see the players as well
02:30walking up the pitch.
02:32Furious.
02:32Yeah.
02:33I think a lot of fans
02:34with the hope
02:34that you might have gone in
02:35and given them really, really
02:38stuck, you know,
02:39stern words, tough words.
02:41It sounds like you want
02:41to give them love instead.
02:42And I wonder what's the sort of
02:43perspective?
02:44No, no.
02:44It's not that I tried to give them.
02:46I think that's what they need.
02:47They need the truth.
02:50So they need,
02:50there is a really important diagram.
02:53It's the level of support
02:54and demands that you put.
02:55And you want to put the demands
02:57really, really, really high,
02:59but the support as well.
03:01Because demands high
03:01and feeling like this,
03:03that doesn't work.
03:04Believe me,
03:04the demands are super high,
03:06they know.
03:06That's because they know me
03:08for a long, long time
03:08and that's not going to be
03:10certain of the issue.
03:11But the players need a lot of support
03:12and credit for as well
03:13what we are doing.
03:15Do you not have to discreet
03:16in the shower?
03:17No.
03:19Yes, sir?
03:19Honka,
03:20the word bottlers
03:21has been used quite a lot since
03:23The word?
03:23Bottlers.
03:24Uh-huh.
03:25Has been used a lot since Wednesday's draw.
03:27What are your,
03:27so you're obviously top of the champs
03:29and top of the Premier League still.
03:30Do you think that's fair
03:31and what's your thoughts on that?
03:33That's individual opinion,
03:35perspective,
03:35and you have to respect that.
03:37I mean,
03:37that's part I said after the press conference.
03:38You lose two points against Wolves
03:40in the manner that the game played out,
03:42you have to take it in the chin.
03:44That's it.
03:44It's part of our role.
03:46For you,
03:46what would constitute a team being boxers?
03:49Sorry?
03:50For you,
03:50what would constitute a team in general being boxers?
03:54Sorry.
03:54And I don't see it like this
03:55because I don't think anybody wants to do that
03:58as an intention.
03:59But,
03:59I wouldn't use that word,
04:01but that's me.
04:02Ed, go to me.
04:03Hi, Miguel.
04:04I just wondered how you personally reacted to
04:07the Wednesday night's draw.
04:09On the night,
04:10did you,
04:10was it a sleepless night for you?
04:12Have you been picking over that game
04:13or were you just trying to move on
04:15and accept the sort of individual mistakes happening?
04:18After night games,
04:20I don't sleep particularly well
04:21because of the adrenaline
04:22and the time of that.
04:24But,
04:25yeah,
04:26nothing very unusual.
04:28Try to analyse
04:29all the decisions
04:30that we made
04:32that I made
04:32prior to the game,
04:34the topics that we discussed,
04:35the messages that I sent to them,
04:37what actually happened
04:38in the very recent past
04:40after those messages
04:42and then what happened
04:43in the second half
04:44and try to learn from that
04:45and just think about,
04:46OK,
04:46what do we need now as a team?
04:49Is there anything
04:50that you can do
04:50to keep the players calm
04:52in that situation,
04:53you know,
04:53when you're 2-1 up
04:54and you're trying to keep ahead
04:57of the team?
04:57Yeah,
04:58keep the ball,
04:59make 20 passes,
05:00play in the final third,
05:01control the game,
05:02control the tempo,
05:03ask them to calm
05:04and then punish them.
05:05That's what you should do.
05:05OK,
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