00:00Hello, Pep. Nice to see you again. Hope you had a happy Easter.
00:03If I could start with injuries updates, please, if I may.
00:09Ruben actually got injured in this reverse fixture, didn't he?
00:12How is he doing?
00:13He's getting better.
00:14But he's not ready for Sunday.
00:18Do you have a time frame?
00:21John, Stones, Calf, I know he's on the subs bench.
00:24Is he ready for minutes?
00:26He was out again, wasn't he, last time?
00:28Today, maybe we'll do a partial training.
00:30We'll see.
00:31And Matteo?
00:35Kovacic?
00:36Kovacic, sorry, yes.
00:38And Josko, I know it's probably a little bit longer for him, but just how is he doing?
00:42He's getting better too, but still he's not close.
00:45Great. Thank you for that.
00:47April, historically, has been really good for you and Manchester City, certainly in terms of points.
00:54I make it you've won 28 of the last 31 in the Premier League in the month of April.
01:002.5 points on average a game.
01:02So is it possible to describe what, if anything, changes in this month that is so markably different than the
01:10other months?
01:12Well, hopefully we can do a lot of points.
01:13It's not the situation that we are in in the Premier League, so we need to do all of them.
01:21Otherwise, it will not give us a chance to try it until the end.
01:25So we need to do a lot of points.
01:28We are not consistent enough in doing the season.
01:31We draw points that we should take it.
01:35And that's why we're in the position that now we cannot do it differently.
01:40Just on that, does April bring anything more out of you?
01:44Do you feel more excitement when this time of the year comes around in the season?
01:49No.
01:51I have a lot of yellow cards.
01:53That means how excited I am.
01:55So no, not just for April.
01:57During the season, I had good energy.
01:59I have still good energy.
02:02Arsenal play, Arsenal are top play in the early kick-off tomorrow.
02:07In this time of the season, does playing before the team was challenging and make any difference?
02:13To do our games.
02:14So playing before or later.
02:17Now the remaining few games for the Premier League, so we have to win every single game.
02:22Hi, Pep.
02:23Pep Linders said after the Liverpool game that every good story comes to an end
02:29and that he hopes Bernardo Silva has a good farewell.
02:33Has Bernardo told you that he's leaving?
02:38I don't know.
02:38I'm so grateful for Bernardo because a month ago I said,
02:41you take a decision, I had to be the first to tell me.
02:46And he didn't say to me anything yet.
02:49So I think the proper one must be Bernardo.
02:52I don't know how I've already decided, to be honest, because I said, joking.
02:56So tell me.
02:58I deserve.
02:59But he didn't tell me.
03:00So I don't know what's going on.
03:03No player has played more for you than Bernardo Silva.
03:07What has made him so special?
03:09Again?
03:11So he's really good in all departments.
03:15Played a lot of games because we have been nine years together.
03:18No injuries.
03:19Never.
03:20I would say he's outside and he's playing different positions.
03:28He's so smart and read every moment what the action, the game requires.
03:33So that's why, you know, when you play a lot of games, it's because give me or give us a
03:41lot of trust and confidence in what it's going to perform.
03:48Can I just ask about Bernardo's different positions?
03:51There was a game at Chelsea in 2021 where you won 1-0.
03:55Jésus scored.
03:57I think it might have been the first time Silva played alongside Rodri.
04:02Obviously, you'd sort of sign him as a winger from Monaco.
04:07Can you talk about his sort of progression positionally over the years?
04:12No, it's not about the progression.
04:13There are players that, so one of the dreams, I think, is a manager.
04:19Every player could play except the keeper in all the positions.
04:22That means you understand the game.
04:23You have the physicality to adapt in many positions and especially intelligence to play in the positions.
04:28And, of course, as a winger in the year of the treble, the side-fifth part of the season plays
04:35as a winger all the time.
04:37And attacking midfielder can play, but he's not a player like me.
04:43I would say a lot of goals or runners in behind, but he's intelligent to read the tempos of the
04:47game.
04:48And I like when he's involved in all the process, especially in the first part of the pitch.
04:54And maybe he goes old.
04:56And normally when you get old, you go back and back and back positions.
05:01But, yeah, as a player, I can play in everywhere because he's so smart.
05:06The biggest detail of Berni is he's so, so intelligent, so smart, reading what is going on, what you have
05:13to do.
05:14And not all of them have this ability.
05:17They have another player, have another complete ability, much better than Berni.
05:20But in these terms, that's why intelligent players, I like to play in the middle because read what's going on
05:25or what's happened.
05:27I think when you did drop him further back for the first time, it was a bit of a surprise
05:32to people because, obviously, we were all used to seeing him higher up the pitch.
05:36What is it about him that you felt that he could excel in that role?
05:39In the training sessions, you've seen the trainings and you see you need more touches and more control or whatever
05:46decision.
05:46I don't remember that it was the first time in 2021.
05:5021, I don't remember, it's a long time ago.
05:56But during the training sessions, the ability or capabilities that they can do, they moved and said,
06:01OK, that guy can adapt in that position.
06:06That's why we tried.
06:09Pep, is Bernardo the perfect captain?
06:11He seems like a natural leader.
06:14The best decision I made this season.
06:16How does he compare to some of the other captains that you've worked with?
06:19I've been good too.
06:20The previous ones have been good too.
06:23Don't tell me it's better than the other ones because everyone is everyone.
06:27But everyone, captain is simple.
06:29Do you think the team comes first?
06:32You know, sometimes the politicians say it's something like this.
06:36No, the country comes first and often never comes first.
06:39So in Bernardo, it's where it is.
06:42So, and most of the captains I had always, always you have to think what the team require.
06:48And not all of them can be possible.
06:52But normally it happens when in a good moment, everyone, the team comes first.
06:56But in the bad moments is when you have to be.
06:59You know, how much credit is against you personally, you know, in terms of playing or in terms of something
07:04like that.
07:05And you put the team or the club organization first.
07:08And not all of them is able to do that.
07:11So how much credit does he take then for being the leader in this season where there have been some
07:15difficult moments and yet you have a trophy in the cabinet?
07:19You're in the semifinals.
07:20Last season was the biggest example.
07:23What I've said last season was the toughest, toughest, toughest one.
07:27I don't understand why or the reason why everybody knows it and always was there.
07:35Leading by example because always he's playing, always he's training, he's training good.
07:41And that was.
07:43Pep, sorry, another one on Bernardo.
07:46You know how good he is.
07:47Obviously, you've spoken a lot on how good he is.
07:49We all know how good he is.
07:50We've seen him over this last nine years.
07:52But he never really seems to be mentioned in the kind of…
08:03makes when it comes to individual awards.
08:05Is he underrated because he puts the…
08:07Is he underrated?
08:09Is that because he kind of puts the team first, like you were saying?
08:12No, because the way, you know, is not the tallest one.
08:17It's not the most dressed one.
08:19The rest of the world is not, I don't know, make 50 goals a season.
08:25They'll make 50 assists a season.
08:27You know, it's this type of place that everyone is full of lights and everybody.
08:32You know, talk about, but always that's what I think, my point of view.
08:37From nine years, I know him quite well.
08:39What the team requires.
08:41And for the managers, so it's maybe I've been, but I've been with another manager.
08:47All the managers would say, I'm pretty sure that the same I'm saying.
08:52How much, you know, the manager can love him because always he's thinking
08:57he's incredibly competitive.
08:59Have a fire inside, always.
09:02In the toughest moments, biggest stages.
09:05He's always there.
09:07Because I've said many times, so in the big games, it's not about playing good or playing bad.
09:11It's being there, be yourself.
09:13I'm not afraid of.
09:16And Bernie, all these attributes, had since the day one,
09:19since the day one he arrived from Monaco.
09:21So it has been an incredible sign for us.
09:25Incredible, incredible love, honestly, because I love this club amazingly.
09:29So I would love he could stay and finish his career here.
09:34But, you know, I don't know if he's going to decide what he's going to decide.
09:37Announce to the club.
09:38I think announce all of you, the media, the fans and everyone.
09:41This is his decision.
09:43But there's been an incredible, incredible sign.
09:45So the numbers and the minutes and the titles and especially that in bad moments.
09:51So I justify and I define the players in the bad moments when everything is difficult.
09:57How always may I step up and say, I'm here to help.
10:08Hi, Pep.
10:09Ray-Anne Shirky is an interesting character.
10:12The last game he put on Ekotiki's shirt.
10:14Only for a second we did do it.
10:16He can sometimes be a little bit...
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