00:00He ticks some boxes that we wanted to be ticked.
00:05You've made it clear again in your opening statement that
00:08reputation, big names, are not necessarily what matters to you,
00:12it's how they fit in the collective.
00:13And you've said that consistently, I think, in all your time in charge, to be fair.
00:16But there are some world-class talents that are not in this squad
00:20that other nations will look at and say,
00:22how are Phil Foden, Cole Palmer, Harry Maguire,
00:25Trent Alexander-Arnold, etc., Morgan Gibbs-White,
00:29how are they not in this squad? How have you left them out?
00:31Do you fear leaving their talents out?
00:34Do you fear leaving those talents at home at all?
00:37How I felt, or how I feel?
00:39A fear.
00:40Do you fear leaving those talents at home?
00:42No, I don't fear because I'm very confident in the group that we chose
00:48and with whom we arrived, with which we arrived.
00:53Very difficult decisions, painful conversations,
01:00difficult for the players, difficult to explain to the players.
01:04But as I said, what we're trying to achieve, we try to achieve as a team
01:08and we try to nominate a balanced squad.
01:12If everyone is selected, it was a given that from these 55 players,
01:17we have to leave some extraordinary talents, some extraordinary personalities at home.
01:24Either way, if we would have picked all these names,
01:27some other big five names would have been out and we would talk about these names.
01:32So, that comes with the job.
01:34I like these kind of decisions, even if they took us weeks and sometimes months to clarify the decisions.
01:43I think they bring clarity, I think they bring in the end a certain edge that is necessary.
01:53I try to explain the reasons for the players.
01:56Could they be in camp? Did they do anything wrong? No.
01:59Could they be in camp? Yes, 100 per cent sure.
02:02But for some of them it's just the amount of players on a certain position.
02:07We didn't want to play the players out of position so much and we want to give them a clear
02:13role
02:14and it comes with difficult and maybe hard choices in the build-up to the tournament.
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