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Tottenham interim Igor Tudor previews their Premier League match away at Liverpool.
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00:01Hi, guys.
00:10Hi, everybody. We'll start with the broadcast section with no embargo, followed by an embargoed section for 10.30pm tonight.
00:15No live tweeting during the broadcast section and use the microphone provided. Gary.
00:19Hello, Igor. It's been a tough few days, I'm sure, for everybody, including yourself.
00:25What's it been like for you over the last few days?
00:28It's tough, for sure. Not just because of the last game, but because of the period we are passing, so
00:37not an easy situation, not an easy moment.
00:42From the other side, it's a big challenge to change the things.
00:51Like everything in life, you can choose how to see the situation.
00:56So, you can stay and cry, or you can fight.
01:00You can be the victim, or you can say, I can change something.
01:04This is the message I want to start, what I communicate to the players.
01:09Okay, because everyone is speaking, everyone has opinions, so the life is always, how you see him, the bottle is
01:20always half empty or half full.
01:22So, here there is nothing full, there is a lot of empty things, but difficult moments don't last for always,
01:34so it will be passed.
01:35And I believe the players who will take this as a challenge, as an opportunity, who will stand up with
01:44the courage to change the things, after this period they will become better persons and better players.
01:51So, in tough moments, it's always about that, it's always about us, at least in the last period, a lot
02:00of things about what is the club, and the problems, and no one can do nothing, and this, like victimism,
02:09you know, like victimism.
02:11And I said this morning, to the players, totally opposite things, we were the teams with the staff, I said,
02:18it's all about us, all the bullshit, all the other things are bullshit, sorry, to this world, you know, so
02:25it's on us.
02:28So, that's, you're showing a lot of defiance there and determination, bottle half full, glass half full, not crying, that's
02:36your approach.
02:37Are you sensing, after that meeting, that the players have that approach as well?
02:41You know, I do every day, this work, the psychology work, it's important also to give the courage to the
02:47teammates, someone they cannot manage, for sure.
02:54Somewhere you arrive and you can help them, and my goal is to find if I can help to do
03:0018 players of 20, 15, I don't know how much, you know, so,
03:07sometimes you cannot do anything, but most of the time you can do even small changes, small help, you know,
03:15you can do it, but also it's what I always like to say to the players, don't be victim.
03:23Don't think it's not about me, you know, that can be the problem more than all these things about Tottenham
03:33club, you know, like magic on the club, like black magic and this and other bullshit, you know.
03:41So, this is about what I want to send the message.
03:45That's your message to the players?
03:47To everyone involved in this club.
03:49The ownership, the CEO?
03:51No, the ownership is ownership, the club is there, they can do, owner is owner, they can do and they
03:56always write and they do what they want with the club.
03:58It's always like that.
04:00It's always like that.
04:01But the problems are of everyone, not just the player or the coach or the staff, it's always everyone's problem.
04:10About the hierarchy, the word I use, the bosses, have you had meetings with any of those over the last
04:17few days?
04:18I speak with the director and I, every day, are speaking, sharing the opinions.
04:26And they share your and the players' frustration and disappointment?
04:30No, we are everyone disappointed, this is for sure, you know, the players care.
04:37If you don't care, then you don't struggle, then you are not in the lack of confidence.
04:45If you don't care, you care.
04:48And then it happens that maybe some situation, when we are in lack of confidence, the situation happens in the
04:55pitch.
04:55Well, they usually don't happen.
04:58So, this can be also an explanation.
05:02Hi, Igor.
05:03I'm just speaking about the players.
05:04I mean, Miki Vandeven came out after the game against Atletico and he said,
05:08it's been a terrible period, it's awful and he's no longer checking his phone, he's just talking to his family.
05:14How concerned are you about the mental health of your players?
05:17No, we are trying to help them, we provide everything we can from the club, of course.
05:22So, that's what I was speaking before, that's the one point.
05:26Another point that this is the job that we are paid for, part of the job to be under stress
05:30and choose what you want to do.
05:34As I said in the start, the same answer I said before to your colleague, I can use it here.
05:40So, it's not easy, but I will say that all good things are not easy.
05:46The message in the training is the same.
05:47Always when we do some difficult things, that's the message.
05:53That's the message.
05:55The right and the best things are not easy.
06:01Antonin Kinski, of course, had a tough night, obviously, the other night.
06:05You came up afterwards and said, you know, he's a good goalkeeper.
06:08It is his birthday today.
06:10I just wondered, do you have any hesitation about playing him between now and the end of the season?
06:17No, of course, he will play, for sure.
06:19He came back after, on the day after, he was very good on the training, very positive and nothing else.
06:27So, this situation happened very rare, probably first and last time in my life and the life of a lot
06:34of people.
06:35You know, this can happen.
06:38So, it's the same message that I said before.
06:41You can go out from the dead situation as a victim.
06:44Okay, poor me, what happened?
06:47And everybody, you know, like, sent the message of help and I'm with you.
06:53And this is nice also.
06:56Sometimes, okay, in 2025, this social media life, you know, became...
07:05Like, that is more important what you say than what you do, which I don't condivided, you know.
07:13But, as I said before, this is normal.
07:16This is a mistake that will happen.
07:18He will be, for sure, in his career, you know, another mistake.
07:24But, I think he has a strength and quality in front of him.
07:29It's a very good career.
07:31Very good career.
07:32And just in terms of team news, Christian Romero and Jao Palini obviously had that nasty clash of heads at
07:38the end of the game against Enetico.
07:39I mean, how are they? Will they be able to play on Sunday?
07:43No, no, they are out.
07:46Miki is also out, Bissouma is out for the problem muscles.
07:51Connor has some fever but probably he will be in.
07:54So, we have, again, a lot of problems to make first eleven.
07:59This is how is it in this club.
08:01This happens all the time.
08:03We start to build something then.
08:07Happens something.
08:08Or red card or last game or three for injury.
08:13This is very rare that happened in my career.
08:17I never see these situations like every game missing two players and the next game and red card and all.
08:23So, it's very rare and very unusually but we need to accept this and try to change the things you
08:30can change.
08:30On these things you cannot do nothing.
08:36Hi Igor, how are you?
08:38Very well, thank you.
08:39You mentioned earlier about how some players can cope and some players can't.
08:44Who is finding this current situation the more difficult?
08:48You, the manager or the players?
08:50Or are you all just finding it almost impossible?
08:53No, we all, that last part, sorry.
08:58I said who is finding it more difficult?
09:01The players?
09:02Everyone.
09:02Everyone finds it difficult if you want to find it difficult and challenging if you want to find challenges.
09:08So, to give the measures how much is one or two or three, that's not the point.
09:16The point, the situation, how is it?
09:18You need to see how you will look on this situation.
09:22Like in life.
09:24In life you can be happy with the small things or you can be unhappy and you have almost everything.
09:33So, it's not about that.
09:35Life is about what is enough for you.
09:38You choose.
09:40Football is also part of the life.
09:43So, how you will see the situation?
09:44You choose.
09:47In life though, if you have a problem, you can have some people you can lean on.
09:51Family, friends, if you're married, your partner, your wife or what have you.
09:56Who have you got to lean on at this football club right now?
09:59Is it the senior players?
10:00Are they with you?
10:01We are everyone together.
10:03I don't see any issues in that direction you go.
10:09We are everyone together.
10:10We speak, we work, we try to change the things.
10:14So, everything is the things we are doing, doing in the right way.
10:26Finally, you mentioned Pelinia and Romero out this weekend.
10:30Is that with concussion?
10:32And if it is, can they come back for what is or seems to be the most important game in
10:39the next ten days,
10:41which is Nottingham Forest at home?
10:42I don't know how much I think they will be back for sure for Nottingham Forest,
10:48maybe even for the Champions League.
10:50So, it's not concussion then?
10:52I don't know exactly what, but probably they will be back.
11:01Igor, ask you about some of the other injuries that you are still waiting to get back,
11:05like Destiny Odogi, Bergval, Kudus, Kudusevski, any sign of any of those coming back?
11:11Destiny almost back.
11:13Yeah.
11:14Do you hope for Atletico maybe?
11:17Forest?
11:18Who, Destiny?
11:19Yeah.
11:20Yeah, for sure.
11:21Fantastic.
11:22I was going to check on your assistant as well, Ivan Javidic, that you were waiting.
11:26Any progress on that?
11:27No, they are going on.
11:29Yeah, I mean, how difficult has that been?
11:31Because he is someone that you are so used to having by your side.
11:33Yeah, he is missing, but this is how is it, you need to be patient.
11:41Is this one of those things you talk about, that you can't be a victim in this situation,
11:44even with that, when you have someone that you have to accept?
11:47Yeah.
11:48Accept the things.
11:49Just one very positive quick thing, I mean, Archie Gray has been playing a lot of minutes for you
11:52in lots of different positions, what have you made of him?
11:55That's the problem.
11:56Yeah.
11:57So if he needs to, every game, change the position tomorrow again.
12:01Four games here, four positions for Archie Gray, which is an amazing player,
12:05but that means that something is wrong.
12:08Beautiful guy, beautiful player.
12:11I didn't know him before so much, so from inside, he has my big respect.
12:18Finish this section with George, please.
12:22Igor, just going back to Tuesday and Kinski coming in, Vicario coming out,
12:27was Vicario dropped for that match or was it just resting him?
12:32I can explain in that situation what was the idea.
12:39The idea was to make him play because, first of all, he is a good goalkeeper
12:44and seeing the situation and the moment we are, for a long period,
12:49to give him some freshness on the goal, even a different competition.
12:54So it was an idea in the start.
12:56If I know after what happened, you think it was the right thing to do.
13:01No problem.
13:02Before, it was the right thing to do.
13:04Then happened what happened and then, of course, it's a little bit different.
13:12Looking ahead to this Liverpool game, do you expect Vicario to come back in?
13:16And how, I guess, is he from the point of view of being dropped?
13:19He is good, he will be on the goal.
13:21Yeah.
13:22And from your own point of view as well, a lot of noise around your future,
13:26only four games but four defeats.
13:28Do you still feel that you are the best man to get Tottenham out of this situation?
13:36It's not the topic that I am thinking about, you know.
13:41OK, we will end the broadcast section there and move on to the embargo section.
13:46What? You are done? Not yet. What are you giving?
13:50Move on to the embargo section.
13:51You give publicity.
13:52I don't think it's crazy.
13:53It's fantasy.
13:53It's fantasy.
13:53Extra Accord.
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