00:10Good evening, everyone. Hope you're well. We'll take a share of answer questions, please,
00:13and we'll certainly embargo towards the end for 10.30pm on Sunday evening. Someone to start,
00:17please. Obviously, 20th trophy as Manchester City head coach. This one has a particular meaning for
00:39you, and how do you think you guys managed to get it? My satisfaction to win, but I had a
00:45feeling
00:46last season at Crystal Palace, even two seasons ago, in Giornati were better than today, in terms of
00:51it was most clear what I have to do. But this type of game, that was last season, the margins
00:58from Mina,
00:59and maybe their penalties, right? Last season was a red card, Anderson, so when it's still guards,
01:06the decisions always make an imbalance, and now I'm sitting here, like how nice I am, and
01:10otherwise we'll call them, have respect. So I know perfectly which team we won. They'll make a good
01:18consistency season, I would say, Chelsea, but the patterns that they do with Coles especially,
01:24that I'm so glad he's back for the English national team, is a big boost. So how to break the
01:30lines,
01:30how they connect each other. Caicedo with James, and after the pockets, always are good occupied,
01:37so we don't play man marking, so it's a fun. I knew it would be a tough start game, like
01:42I've been.
01:43The game started really good. I think we make it three to three, five minutes, really, really good,
01:47arriving, a final pass, a final decision where it was not good, and after they were better,
01:52in the second half, even we had the first chance, clear with Antoine, they were better.
01:56The moment the game was for him, for them. They were more aggressive, they pushed us a lot of corners,
02:02and this type of position. And after we found the goal, that game is that. So we found the goal,
02:08and after we were better, of course, they have a chance with the throwing, but after when they
02:12changed the five to four, even they put more players there, we found better our wingers,
02:18our pockets, and our transitions. That happened many times this season, the final pass,
02:23the final moment, we were not clever, we were not good enough, we could finish it.
02:27But, yeah, really pleased. This trophy is really, really cool, really special for the tradition,
02:33and after two defeats, so back to our, back to Manchester, it's nice.
02:40Hi Pep, congratulations. Before this week, Antoine had a bit of a run without goals,
02:45but that moment there, is that sort of why you buy a player like that? Because he has the capacity
02:53in those moments when you're struggling a bit in the game to just turn things around,
02:57that sense of goal. Yeah, since arrived, I did it with the Bournemouth, with the Raola,
03:00have a sense of goal. Antoine can play in the three positions, I think as a striker,
03:05it was really good. Looked at last game, incredible assist from field, the finishing,
03:09have a sense of goal. Yeah, the impact for both him and Mark in wintertime was a bit massive,
03:15so, yeah, it looked a little bit soft, because normally he has to cross to Erling,
03:20and Erling that case crossed to him, but have a sense of goal, good finishing, so, yeah,
03:25a really good goal.
03:27Congratulations, Pep. Obviously, you've got another big game to come very quickly on Tuesday.
03:31Are you allowing the players to have a party tonight, a celebration?
03:33Home. Not even one beer. Next Monday, after Easton Villa, we're going to celebrate it
03:40with the humans team. The club said to me that, with some parade in Manchester,
03:45because it must be celebrated with both teams, but no, no, no, half time, so,
03:50half three days, just had seven days to prepare that final, last three days.
03:54Yesterday, the travel was a nightmare. Spent six hours, literally six hours,
03:59from CFA to here, the trains, a little bit problem in this country, six hours,
04:07but, yeah, I think we behaved in some moments good, we were quite stable,
04:11but the same. When a final is in that end, the margins, the decisions can change
04:16absolutely, absolutely everything.
04:19Hi, Pep. Well done.
04:21Sir Alex Ferguson once said, you never get full value with signs in January,
04:26but do Mark Gehi and Antoine show what you can get?
04:31Listen, you're going to spend, I don't know how much, much money.
04:35If it works, it's cheap.
04:38You're going to spend less, less money, and it's not working, it's not cheap, it's expensive.
04:44So, always the tendency, all the clubs want to sign players.
04:47At the end was the opportunity, you know, so it was opportunity, risk loss from Antoine,
04:53and last six months contract from Crystal Palace.
04:57We had a lot of problems from Ingers, with Ruben and Josco,
05:01and now we have everyone, we have been, we have been, for example,
05:06last season, it was a moment that in November, December, that we didn't win one game.
05:10We have, in between, combined, 13 Ingers.
05:13We have 13 Ingers in November, December, January, in this country,
05:16we play every three days with 13 Ingers.
05:17You cannot handle it.
05:19So, when Ruben fit, and Josco fit, and everyone fit,
05:22maybe we don't go for Mark or Antoine,
05:24but in this situation, it has opportunities, sometimes happen,
05:28and balls have been really extraordinary.
05:32You've won many finals, but was that one of the best goals that you've seen scored in the year?
05:37It was a really good goal.
05:38Really good skills, really good technique, the crowds and the finishing, really good.
05:44Obviously, John and Bernardo are going, and maybe some others as well.
05:48How nice was it for them to finish with a trophy in this way?
05:53Absolutely.
05:54But, of course, it's nicer, but if you have to judge his service, his tenor, his ten years here,
06:03today win or not win the trophy, Carabao win the trophy.
06:07It's not about that.
06:08Whatever will happen today, or the last game, the final against Arsenal,
06:13they have been a bit, really, really, no words I've said many times
06:17to express their incredible gratitude for on and off the pitch, how they behave,
06:22represent this club in the best way as possible.
06:26Bernardo is a machine, Nava Inja, play in all the roles,
06:29and always being incredibly competitive today, show it again.
06:34But it's really pleased.
06:36I always had that feeling in the finals, in that CEC, the faces, the players happy,
06:40but it's still right now for me, after many years, I cannot overcome that feeling
06:45that it's difficult to swallow the fact that many incredible players cannot play.
06:50So, I gave six players in the tribune today, players feel the game we played last game,
06:55couldn't play today.
06:57So, always, so, the happiness is never, never complete,
07:00because all the players come here, Wambli, this stadium, both, you know.
07:05So, people, it always is tough.
07:07I was a football player, I see that, I'm good, I won the trophy,
07:10but I want to play, I want to play, I want to play.
07:13But there is worries, but especially, of course, for John and Bernardo,
07:19they are leaving in two games, that will be really good.
07:21Hopefully, we can extend in Bournemouth the game to arrive in the last game
07:26and make the best tribute as possible with the chance to fight for the Premier League.
07:31And you said already that the team have already proved that it's a good season,
07:35regardless of, you know, the last few games.
07:37How much potential do you see in this group, this brand-new team, for next season?
07:41I took time to click something, I missed something during the process.
07:45We make a lot of different shifts and pressing display with the other player.
07:50We had a feeling that the last two months I've fed something, stability with the team,
07:55that I didn't find maybe in the past.
07:57But it's normal because a lot of new players, injured players,
08:00and sometimes you need, you know, a little bit more time,
08:03but the highest competition, don't wait, right?
08:06But top eight in the Champions League, we found one of the toughest opponents.
08:10The Champions League is always a really, really, really difficult opponent.
08:13But the rest of the competitions, we have behaved extraordinarily,
08:16and the future is bright.
08:17So, I know the guys, I know how they feel, you know,
08:22the commitment for the club and their profession.
08:26I'm pretty sure we will be there.
08:27We will be there next year.
08:30Last one for Ian Balger.
08:31Yeah, thank you.
08:32Just stepping back a little bit from today's match,
08:35I think you are the longest-serving manager,
08:38not just in the Premier League, but in all four top divisions in England.
08:43How important is it for coaches these days to have that long-term stability?
08:48It seems in the industry, it's going in the opposite direction,
08:51that more and more managers are losing their jobs ever more quickly.
08:54How important has it been for you to have had this time
08:56to build what you've done at Manchester City?
08:58This is the key.
08:59But listen, I'm the longest because we won a lot.
09:03I've said many times, but at the same time.
09:06When the people above me and the sport director,
09:10especially with the chairman, myself and the players,
09:13we're on the same page.
09:15Stability.
09:15You can make up and down.
09:16We had last season, but normally you are stable.
09:19When you have a lot of managers with many, many years,
09:22it's so difficult.
09:22We need time.
09:25In football, like everything in life,
09:26you need time sometimes to adapt.
09:29And today the people are so anxious to...
09:31I said many times.
09:32So this period, there are moments for season,
09:34last season, and moments during the season was not good.
09:38I didn't feel that, but they blame me.
09:40You know, because we were with each other.
09:42He said, what can do to improve, to get better, to get better?
09:45And most of the clubs, but it sucks, it sucks.
09:48Yeah, it can be better, but it can be worse.
09:52And one of the great success in that,
09:57of course, I'm every three days here talking in front of you,
10:00the players, but one of the biggest success,
10:02the stability that above me.
10:04Without that, you don't have this success.
10:10Impossible.
10:12Certainly more than that for 10.30 p.m.
10:13some of the evenings.
10:14Someone start, please.
10:15Jamie?
10:20Hi, Pep.
10:21I'm here.
