00:00Do you have a decision to make on your goalkeeper tomorrow?
00:04James.
00:05Yeah.
00:08How impressed have you been to hear his response?
00:11He's obviously not been in the Premier League team,
00:14but he's obviously stayed focused and enough for these games.
00:19Carabao Cup was the main figure in the NFL Cup, the same.
00:24I'm really pleased that he can play.
00:27As I said many times, the big clubs have two really, really two key players.
00:32It's really good.
00:33James and Gigi are there.
00:37Hi, Pep.
00:38Just back onto John Stones.
00:40He's only played twice since December, both games in the FA Cup.
00:45What's been sort of happening?
00:46Has he sort of got close and then kept breaking down?
00:49I've been injured for many times.
00:51I was back and now Kusa and Marcus are playing incredibly well.
00:54Nathan in the final and Carabao played outstanding.
00:58He since then played five minutes.
01:01Cannot be more unfair with Nathan.
01:04But they had to compete.
01:05So both central defenders are exceptional.
01:08Kusa is, what can I say, and Mark the same.
01:12And I've been injured and he's coming back.
01:14The important thing is in two weeks or three weeks, he's already training full and well.
01:20And this is the best news.
01:22You've got a lot of centre-backs.
01:23Maybe Thomas Tuchel is still sort of counting on him for the World Cup.
01:26I hope so.
01:27Do you think he'd be able to play consecutive games?
01:30Definitely.
01:30Definitely.
01:34I bet the Carabao Cup final last month felt like a big moment for the team and the squad.
01:40How much of both cup competitions helped the team kind of come together for every competition?
01:45For the experience, Carabao helped.
01:47Now it's a little bit later, the final, before it was in January, February maybe.
01:51And he said, okay, we won one title already.
01:53It's like a, of course it's nothing.
01:56But the mindset is, okay, we won one title this season.
01:58It's a good feeling.
02:00And I think that it was a good moment to feel.
02:03It was a good moment, but you have long weeks, you know, before the Carabao Cup and things.
02:08You have a long week until Liverpool, FA Cup, and long weeks at the Premier League game.
02:15So that helps.
02:16What I said in the previous press conference in Etihad Stadium.
02:19So it's another competition when you play one game a week or play three games a week.
02:23It's another competition.
02:25It's another status.
02:27We are fresh in many things.
02:29We have time for everything to recover.
02:31The people arrive in good mood.
02:35And now that was not.
02:37So we are right there.
02:38We have a long week.
02:38And after we have, if we reach the final, we have three days, three days until the end.
02:49How is the atmosphere with the players at the moment?
02:51Does it feel like it would do with previous teams when there are titles to go for?
02:58It's good.
03:00The players don't play, don't match happy.
03:03Because, you know, the last game is long weeks.
03:05I rotate less.
03:06Because in the last five, six games, conceded one goal.
03:11And with Arsenal game and the rest, we have been quite good.
03:17So that's why, always I do and I try to involve everyone.
03:20But when I arrive in the last part of the season, always I try to, okay.
03:25Now, when I'm pretty sure in the last four or five games, I give a team like the vibe is
03:29good.
03:30I rotate less and make less changes.
03:33But now, I have to think about it.
03:37Like today, people were second day always tired and we come for some energy,
03:42a little bit of training and some vicious stuff.
03:44Be careful to play that player for the history of the potential injury.
03:47If one player is injured right now, it's gone.
03:51It's over.
03:52And now I want to have the players available for the Everton until the end.
04:00You always say the players should be disappointed when they're not playing.
04:03That's how it has to be.
04:04But what's like the line?
04:06Like at what point does it get too much?
04:09And how often does that happen?
04:10They can be so sad as much as they train good.
04:13And they have a good relation with the mates and the organisation on the pitch
04:17and off the pitch that they pay the salaries and take care of them.
04:20Incredible.
04:21It's more than fine.
04:23It's normal.
04:23I would not like it if they are happy.
04:26But as much as they train good and they are focused and respect what does it mean to Man City,
04:33it's fine.
04:37Hi, Pat.
04:38In a few press conferences recently, you've referenced things that happened back in your
04:43first season, back in 2016, like Nalito and there was a moment with Gundogan at Chelsea.
04:49Why do those things stick out with everything that's happened over the last 10 years?
04:54Why do those moments still stick out with you?
04:58Because I have good memories.
05:00I don't forget.
05:02I'm really good.
05:05Because there are things too obvious.
05:08Too obvious.
05:10So that's why.
05:11But I don't think I am all the time living with that.
05:19So I have there, but it's forgotten.
05:22But otherwise we will not achieve what we achieve.
05:25You are not focused on what you have to do.
05:27Always I say many times.
05:28Managers, like politicians, have a lot of wars to deal or subjects to deal.
05:36You have to choose which ones it works, the other ones.
05:40It doesn't matter.
05:42Are there others that you've got ready to go for future?
05:45Sorry?
05:45Are there other things that you've got ready to go for future that you still remember that
05:49we've maybe forgotten?
05:50No, no, no.
05:53Always I said the important things you never forget.
05:55When you need a pen to write in a paper, it's because it's not important.
06:01The really important things in life, you don't need a paper to write.
06:05You never forget.
06:06The less important you have to write it because you've forgotten.
06:10It will be forgotten anyway.
06:13Hi, but when we spoke to you last summer in the U.S., you said that playing in the club
06:17you weren't really sure how the fatigue of that would affect the players until we got to March
06:21and April.
06:22Now we're here.
06:23Have you noticed any difference in how tired the players are?
06:26Are you getting data to suggest that they're more tired than perhaps they are at different
06:29stages of other seasons that you've had?
06:34I don't think.
06:36We're on holidays.
06:38Not much.
06:39But after that, I didn't think once.
06:41I missed this World Cup because I said it many times.
06:44Okay.
06:46But for a lot, it was not good.
06:48And we have preferred to write less stages.
06:52But not for why in the title it said, because we were incredible, great and good vibe there.
06:56We were so good in that place.
06:57So good.
06:58And everybody was so happy there.
07:00And the people had the feeling, I want to go holidays.
07:02No, completely the opposite.
07:04And it was the disappointment to say, ah, extend that.
07:08No, because we are creating some.
07:10But after that, the start of the season, and the up and down that they had, it was not
07:15the World Cup.
07:16It was because we didn't play good.
07:17The Open was better.
07:19And at the end, yeah.
07:21Many things, a lot of things we changed.
07:23It's the season where they changed different, a lot of different ways to attack and defend.
07:28And to find for the new players the best way I felt that it was comfortable.
07:34And we find it maybe too late, right?
07:37But it's where it is.
07:38Do you think in terms of, you speak a lot about the body language of the players, the
07:41connections that they have together.
07:43Given how tough it was at times last season, that what you described there at the Club World
07:47Cup, you were away in that hotel in Miami.
07:50You all got to bond.
07:51The families were there.
07:52That has helped what you've been able to achieve this season.
07:55Yeah, for sure.
07:57It was something.
07:58It was not decisive, of course.
07:59We had to have, you know, bumpings.
08:05But yeah, we went to the World Cup for the new season.
08:11So, last season finished in Fulham.
08:14Fulham game, Qualified Champions League, it was over.
08:17And after, in the World Cup, it's like a start of the season.
08:20You have to have a break for two, three weeks to start the preseason and walls and the rest.
08:25So, mentally it was like that.
08:26And refreshed, new captains, new players came.
08:30And everything was, you know, was a start.
08:33Pep Linders come and many things started to do it.
08:37And it had not been perfect, it had not been nice.
08:41But the feeling that certain little things start to click or start to say, OK, we are in a good
08:49way.
08:50I'll stay with Fred and Paul. Thank you.
08:52Pep, on the rotation subject, I would like to ask you about Savinho.
08:55You've given him important minutes against Liverpool, Chelsea, Burnley.
09:02I feel something is missing.
09:04I don't know if you feel that his development in the second season hasn't reached what, at least, we expected
09:10from the outside.
09:11The reason why he didn't play Liverpool is Savinho and Antoine have made an incredible impact.
09:15So, I don't know if he can find a more decisive winger than Jeremy right now than Doku, to be
09:21honest.
09:22The threat that that guy is unbelievable.
09:23Looked at first goal in Burnley.
09:25How he fight, controlled assists from Erling.
09:28So, it's difficult to find.
09:31But you have to be careful with him.
09:33You know, play three days, three days, three days with Jeremy for his cereal.
09:37Be careful.
09:39That's the reason why.
09:40They play in Madrid, Savinho.
09:43So, it's not a friendly game, right?
09:44Champions League, first leg.
09:46So, it's not about that.
09:48It's just sometimes here.
09:50And I know, I remember against Newcastle, the FA Cup, I think so.
09:55It was the man of the match, the best.
09:58What a game he played before Madrid.
10:00Yeah.
10:02And after it was injured.
10:04And after it took back and after, you know, sometimes it happened.
10:07But, extend the contract, you know, since not a long time ago.
10:12That might, the club trust him.
10:15It's having incredible potential.
10:18When we, when we spoke to you in America last year about John Stones, we were, you were
10:23saying you really wanted, was hoping that he'd be kind of back to his best when it comes
10:28to his fitness levels.
10:29Is it a little bit disappointing that he's not, he's not come back to that level?
10:32Of course, you know, he's a very important player in this kind of, in this club's history.
10:37Yeah.
10:38Ten years together.
10:39Always a one.
10:40And I cannot judge the performance because I've been a little bit out.
10:43That is the only problem.
10:45I don't have any doubts with John.
10:46It's just, when he can cap his level, he's, he's a top center defender.
10:52There's no doubt.
10:52But, yeah, we, we said it's only a one fit.
10:56And, unfortunately, like last season was a lot of time would not be possible.
11:01But, still have a, tomorrow have five potential six and, and he's a lovely, incredible teammate.
11:10And, yeah, we'll see.
11:11We'll see what happens.
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