00:00Hi, Pep. The club and Bernardo Silva confirm that he's going to leave in the summer.
00:04You, during your ten years, you've said goodbye to some proper legends.
00:08Is this maybe the hardest one of all for you because he's still very important to the team?
00:12Absolutely. It's part of when this type of players, there are many in the last years
00:16that have gone. I'm talking for myself. Part of myself is leaving too, so it would be difficult
00:24to imagine, you know, without him. I've said many times off and off the pitch. I think he makes an
00:30incredible
00:32statement during nine years and especially have been massively, massively, massively important.
00:39Starting from Ederson, as a keeper, like now, finished with Bernardo, many, many players have
00:45been what we are. I don't know, winning and performing incredibly well and mentally and everything.
00:53So, yeah, hopefully we can deliver to him. He's going to help us. I know that he's in a special
00:58players in that terms. Hopefully we can deliver a good month, a few days, because he deserves it.
01:08He deserves the best. He's won maybe 16 major trophies, three charity shields, but how great
01:14would it be to send him off with more silverware for him to leave with more? Yeah, of course.
01:20We want to get 19 titles and we are going to, yeah, still we are two in hand, in challenge,
01:29and we are going for it. That's for sure. Pep, it's a huge game. It's at home. The fans will
01:35be
01:36up for it. What does it feel like when you're stood on the touchline and it's one of those games,
01:41one of those nights where the whole stadium is alive and loud and going for it?
01:46It happened this season a few times, so
01:50of course they are going to help us because, you know, the team, except last season all the time,
01:58the team has been there playing good, bad, winning and losing, but always have been there and tomorrow
02:01will be, Sunday will be there. So we are looking forward to start and do our best.
02:08I know the people are looking forward to, you know, it's a perfect Sunday 4.30 against Arsenal,
02:16so what else we can ask for? Because you sort of say that Arsenal have this advantage,
02:22say, of not having won the league for 22 years and having that, but they've never come to the Etihad
02:28and won while you've been here. Don't ask that question. You know what happened,
02:35will never, never happen, no? Right, no? Next. It must help your confidence, though,
02:41and the confidence of everyone. The confidence is the same. I know who we are. My confidence is how
02:46we're going to train, how the players can believe what I believe, what you have to do. This is the
02:50confidence. Confidence for the six Premier Leagues that we won in the past or the title, the last one,
02:57and Carabao against them, that does not give you the confidence to win the next game. So,
03:04because Ederson's and Kevin's and Gundos and Kyle's and Manu's and a lot, a lot of players like
03:13made a lot of things here are not here anymore. So we have to do, most of them are new
03:18and we'll see.
03:19So always for Turkey, for example, never won the Premier League. How is going to behave, you know,
03:24in that position? Jijo has never been here, you know, and Kusa has never been here.
03:32Nikos, the first time of the season, like he's really, really, really there. And Antoine arrived
03:37a month ago. Marc Gewa arrived weeks ago. You know, there are a lot of players that are going to
03:45play or maybe we can win the first Premier League in my life. So how we all behave? So I
03:51don't know.
03:51So that's why it's, my target is, guys, this is going to happen tomorrow, or after tomorrow,
03:59we'll try to do this and convince them and say, yeah, let's go. That is the way how the game
04:05must be played. And after that, even, yeah, many things you cannot control.
04:13Hey, Pat, you've just mentioned quite a lot of the newer players there and the players that haven't
04:18experienced this sort of thing before. How enjoyable for you has this season been in sort of trying to
04:25find different ways of playing with these new players? Because obviously you also tried four,
04:30five, six, seven different ways of playing. Has that been kind of, how stimulating has that been for you?
04:37Yeah, in part it's nice, it's fun. All the time it's not the same, but the other side, maybe a
04:42new,
04:42new team is better to be more stable. But we have a lot of time without wingers
04:47and certain positions or problems. And we adapt a little bit the quality of the players to play,
04:52but with the same target to be aggressive without the ball, with the ball, and it works. At the end,
04:58when we are here, so many Champions League, of course, play against Madrid is not easy. We saw
05:04last game against Madrid, how good they were in Munich, right? So always they are so open. They
05:10have a lot of experience. They know exactly what they have to do. But the rest, I think we have
05:14been
05:16really, really good in terms. And I've been a team like I felt we grew up, we are getting better,
05:21getting better. And that is what, you know, for the next season will be good, you know, at the end.
05:26And as I said, the first Premier League was the second season. It would not be possible how much
05:31we grew up during the first season, why didn't we win a title, but we finished third. And in many,
05:37many things, we were really, really good. And we learned a lot. What we miss a part of the players,
05:41how we have to, that is, the process is nice. So I said many times, I don't care in October,
05:48we are really, really good. It's arrived in the last month, it has been much, much better than October.
05:54So this is the real point in the teams in the long, long terms. What I said,
05:59in the Champions League, in FA Cup, in Carabao Cup, one game, two games,
06:04the referees are massively important, massively. And the details, but the 38 fixtures,
06:12if you grow up, always you will be there. And again, this season, we did it.
06:17And then, obviously, you've been in loads of these title races before, and you know exactly what you're
06:23doing in these last six to eight weeks. You've managed lots and lots of different personalities
06:29over the ten years here. With that in mind, how do you keep the pressure off the players,
06:35knowing that everybody's different and everyone responds to things in a different way?
06:40I think the pressure is, they put the pressure to say, oh, if I win, will be champion or win,
06:45I will be a disaster. That is the type of pressure that I never, never talk about to the players.
06:50Always I had to feel the pressure to say, guys, did I convince you today to play in that way?
06:55In that, because we do things, it depends on the quality. So the opponents,
07:02you believe it, that the pressure don't exist. And the players know, ah, I'm going to do this
07:08and do that. And I'm able to do this because I'm good enough and we're going to win the game.
07:14I have to try to visualize doing this, we can do it. Always I approach the games in that way.
07:19I was a football player when my manager convinced me or tell me, guys, doing that way in that way?
07:23I say, yeah, oh, the space is here, pressing that way or second balls or whatever, all the details.
07:29And after that, just play, play on. So that, oh, it's the final and everybody, you know,
07:36anticipate all the questions, what happens if you lose? And if we lose, they will be champion.
07:41We can finish the press conference. Is that what, you know, is a football game, no more than that.
07:48And as much as it is, than just a football game. Go there and behave like we have to do.
07:56Hi, Pep. A couple of times this season, particularly after Forrest and West Ham,
07:59you've maybe suggested that you thought the gap was too big. In that sense, just on the pressure
08:04and the mentality required to win this game, do you feel like the pressure is off your players
08:08a little bit and more on Arsenal? Because they've spent a lot of the season at the top of the
08:11table,
08:11they've led, they've had big leads at different stages. Perhaps no one was expecting your team
08:15to be in this position. So I appreciate it's a one-off game between two teams, but in terms of
08:19pressure, it feels like very much tilted towards them. We need that pressure to compete good
08:24against that team. You need the pressure. They have to know that if you don't win, it's over.
08:27You know, we talk about that. I can expect the last year, so what happened when the Premier League
08:33and then like six, seven, eight years old, every game we knew if we don't win, we don't win the
08:37Premier League.
08:37So we play with that. But at the end, play that game, you have to do something, no? What is
08:42the
08:42pressure? What does it mean if we don't win? What we have to do, we have to move our legs,
08:48no? We have to think about it, what's happened. We have to use our brain during the moment.
08:53And this is what we have to do. So, of course, we have the pressure. So it's the same with
08:58the
08:59final Carabao Cup, UEFA Cup against Obstampton in one week time. So if we don't win, we are out.
09:05Yeah, I know. But we have to do something, no? What do we have to do? This is that's why
09:10we work here
09:13almost every day to try to let them feel that doing that, how we attack in the final third one,
09:19the defending low block, the defenders strike a source of deep. What do you have to do to avoid the
09:24transition? What do you have to do in different aspects than every different rival? Tell you this
09:31is only I'm concerned. I don't want to give you this track. So if we lose, I will shake hands
09:36to
09:36Mikel and I will pray they lose the next five games to be champion. But I think it's not going
09:41to happen. So try to win our game on Sunday. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.
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