00:00Towards the end of last season when you went to Liverpool, you spoke then of what you wanted your players
00:06to learn from that pain and that experience.
00:11It looks like they've learned a lot of those lessons.
00:15Is it now about finishing the job, just getting over the line?
00:19Because you've been the best team in the league all season, you're deservedly clear.
00:24Is that the last thing, just to learn to be a winner?
00:27Yes, I think we learn lessons after you have to do it, what you learn which is different and we've
00:34been very consistent with what we've been doing.
00:36But as you said, it's the most crucial part of the season is about to happen and we need to
00:41deliver that right until the end.
00:43And what does it take? You've been in teams that have won, you've been in teams that have not won.
00:50Is it just will? Is it nerve? Is it love? What takes you over the line?
01:00When I look back at those moments when I won or I haven't, the will has to be there.
01:06I mean, there's no bigger motivation than being there to win a major trophy.
01:10If there isn't, the unity is going to be there, the energy is going to be there.
01:13The composure, I think that's a massive one to maintain the emotional state in the right way.
01:22Availability, and not only availability, but then the performance capacity to that availability.
01:27So you need all your best players available in that period to give yourself the best chance.
01:32And there are moments. I won a championship when a central defender has put the ball in the top corner
01:37where you don't expect winning the last game three times in very different ways.
01:44So a lot of things have to go your way, but you have to push as well that element of
01:47luck that is needed at times,
01:49your way, and that's something that I believe that has to come from us as well.
01:53Can I just ask one more?
01:56David Rea, outstanding again in midweek.
02:01Midweek we saw fantastic performances also by Manuel Neuer and other keepers.
02:07How highly do you rate Rea as a keeper, and I suppose also as a person?
02:14I think it's really important in any team that the goal has the faith of his players, of his defenders.
02:20I mean, maintaining clean sheets and not allowing goals to go in, I think that wins you a big trophy.
02:27You have the best example last year with PSG.
02:29If Donnarumma is not there, we're probably in the final of the Champions League, that's clear.
02:34But that's the level.
02:35And when you refer to Real Madrid again against Bayern Munich at his age, what he did is remarkable.
02:40You win the game, you win the tie, you're yourself in a much better position.
02:44It's inevitable.
02:46That's moments.
02:48I want your best players to stand up and those decisive moments to go your way.
02:51Ed, got it.
02:53Hi.
02:54There was a bit of a mention of your predecessor earlier and the legacy that he left behind.
02:59You're closing in on the title.
03:01Do you ever talk to the players about how long it's been?
03:05Do you think it's important to embrace that kind of pressure or are you trying to shut that?
03:18I think embrace the opportunity, the difficulty, but I think the outcome when we reach that.
03:28And it's going to be totally different to any other club.
03:31Because there have been clubs that you go there as a manager and they've won it the year before or
03:36two years before.
03:36You win it, it's fine.
03:38A lot in Europe.
03:39But this one is a very particular one.
03:41One in the Premier League because it's been 22 years and the Champions League has never been done before.
03:46So that has to fool you with enthusiasm, energy.
03:49And there's the possibility and the probability that it's very big to do it.
03:52So put everything on the table because that's the moment to do it.
03:55And do you sense with the players now after the other night or change the narrative again back to a
04:01positive?
04:02Do you sense that they can now really see that finish line inside and you can see it in their
04:05eyes that it's there to grasp?
04:08Yeah, I mean, every win and when you win the Champions League in the quarterfinals away from home,
04:12that's a massive boost in every level.
04:15Confidence, trust, energy, anything that you can point is positive.
04:19And it was great to experience that because it was really important as well for what is coming now in
04:25the Premier League as well.
04:27Okay, last couple.
04:28Isan?
04:29Hi, Mikal.
04:29With Martín Olegal, he's of course suffered a number of injuries this season,
04:33which I'm sure has impacted him in many different ways.
04:36But in terms of before his injuries this season, his output seemed quite limited compared to when he first arrived
04:42at Arsenal.
04:43What do you think the factors are behind this kind of situation?
04:47Well, I think obviously he had a very difficult season in terms of the days that he's missed the amount
04:52of games,
04:53which is very unusual.
04:54And he's a player that needs that rhythm, that needs to be very connected with the team.
04:58And not only that he's missed that opportunity, but the team as well has missed him so much for what
05:02he brings,
05:03that some things that are probably unnoticed to the public or in general are not in those stats,
05:09but it's much more profound within the team and the identity of this team.
05:13So we need him at his best. We need him constantly with us because we are a much better team
05:18with Martínez in and around the team.
05:21Can you tell us a bit about what it brings to the team that we might not ordinarily see, which
05:25is quite obvious to us?
05:26It's the one that connects everybody, that glides everybody together, that makes the team flow in a way that nobody
05:33else can do that.
05:35And that's a huge quality to have. He's the captain, he's the leader, he's the one that sets the tone
05:41in probably every phase of play for us.
05:43And he's always such an intelligent person that he can adapt and modify the game when we need to in
05:50ten seconds.
05:53What do you want your legacy to be here when you eventually walk out? Is it trophies?
05:59That you miss me a lot. That you miss me a lot. Hopefully that someone was here that cared a
06:10lot about the club,
06:11about the people that was in the organisation, that they had a good time with him,
06:17that he inspired them to see the game in probably a different way or his own way,
06:24and that he injected that passion in the game and will to win and do absolutely everything that we can
06:31to have the opportunity to give back the opportunity that he was given to me.
06:35Do you want to have a set number of trophies you want? Do you want to make sure they're done
06:40X on the pitch?
06:42Obviously, if that comes back with a lot of major trophies, that's even better.
06:48That's going to be a consequence of how we behave daily and a lot of good decisions that we have
06:51to make.
06:53Thanks very much.
06:54Yeah, thank you.
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