00:01Good morning, Enzo. Some people see the Community Shield as a glorified friendly,
00:07other people see it as a major trophy. What does this game mean to you on Sunday?
00:12For me personally, it's a trophy. When the trophy is there, the final is there,
00:19you always try to win the game. So no friendly game at all. It's a trophy that we're going to
00:25try our best to win the first trophy.
00:29City had pretty good results against Arsenal last season in the league. Obviously beat them in the
00:33Carabao Cup final, but they finished seven points behind them in the table. How tough will that gap
00:37be to close this season? Arsenal show in the last two, three, four, five years that they have been
00:45always there. It's a fantastic team, well managed, well coached from Mikel. Again, last year they won
00:53the Premier League. They show how good they are in this moment, but at the same time we are
00:58City and we are going to try to close the gap and try to compete again.
01:03Can you just give the fans an update on Rodri? We understand he's back at the club today.
01:08Are you expecting him to be a City player at the end of this window or are you starting
01:12to prepare for life without him?
01:14First of all, as already said, the window transfer is open. We can buy players, we can sell players,
01:22anything can happen. I just saw Rodri now in the building. I gave him a big gag. He looks
01:27good. So we'll see what's happening.
01:32Enzo, hello. Do you really want to strengthen your squad at this stage? Do you feel it needs
01:38strengthening given the potential departure of Tijani Rinders as well?
01:44For sure there are things that we need to do. Now, how many? I don't know. It can be one,
01:49it can be two. It depends also if players are going to leave. It depends. But again, now in
01:56this moment I think 48 hours for a final, my first final in this club. I will try to win
02:04the first trophy. So my focus in this moment is not about players that they can leave or
02:09players that they can arrive. The focus for me personally is just how we can prepare in
02:14the best way the game and try to win the final.
02:17Would you want a player that you know very well in Enzo Fernandes? The rumours persist
02:22that Chelsea wants £120 million for him. Would any move for him depend on Rodri leaving
02:29Manchester City? No, in this moment, again, I have to give you the same answer since day
02:36one and will be always the same. It's a player from another club and I don't think it's correct
02:43to speak about other players. In the same time, I don't think it's correct when other clubs
02:47they speak about our players. So that's why I'm not going to say nothing about players that
02:52they are not with us. So just finally, will you be chatting to Rodri today then?
02:58As I said, I just give him a big hug there. Now we have time to see each other a
03:04little
03:04bit more when I will be in the building.
03:08Hi, Enzo. I know it's only the first match, but what do you expect to see from your intake
03:15on the team on Sunday?
03:17It's important that we continue to grow, we continue to improve. I think the pre-season has been good
03:22because game after game the team has improved. Now the pre-season is finished, now we need to compete,
03:27we need to win games, we need to win title. What I want to say is the right spirit to
03:32continue to
03:34improve and again, the right mentality to win games and title.
03:39And about two specific players, we didn't see Savinho on the pitch yesterday.
03:43Is he okay to play on Sunday? Is he a player that you want to keep in the club?
03:48Again, Savinho yesterday was not part of the session, the reason why he was a little bit ill.
03:54We see it today, the session is in the afternoon, so we see how it is today and then we
03:59decide.
04:00And do you want to keep Vitor Reis in the club or going another long for him? What's the plan?
04:06No, at the moment Vitor stay with us. Then we see until the wind and transfer close.
04:17Hi Enzo. Erling Haaland sat out the last part of yesterday's training session, is he okay?
04:24Yeah, he was okay. He had just small things behind the heels, but he was okay.
04:32Okay. Are there any other fitness issues going into the weekend? No, the only one is Ryan Makedo,
04:38that as you know, in pre-season he had a small problem, but he's already worked with us,
04:44so everyone is fit, knowing that some of them, they just arrived two days ago.
04:49And just with Rodri, obviously he's coming off back surgery this summer. What's his program going forward?
04:55He's now rehab. When he's ready to start training session, start training session with us.
05:02And this is the problem for him.
05:05Hi Enzo. On Tijani Rinders, is it the same situation as James Trafford and Marmoush,
05:11where last season has kind of influenced this one?
05:14Probably, yes. Probably, yes. As I said, they all work every day, they all do sessions every day,
05:22and at the end of the week, they won't all play a game. When they don't play, they struggle to
05:28understand or they struggle to see the reason why. I can understand that after one season,
05:34some of them, they would like to play a little bit more, so it's a normal situation.
05:40But obviously, Tijani was with you in Asia, and I guess you would have spoken to him,
05:46and when you played him, you told him what you wanted from him and the different roles. Have you
05:51not been able to maybe convince him to stay or talk to him about what you would have wanted from
05:56him
05:56this season? It's a bit difficult to convince players when they are already convinced, so you need to
06:03change their thoughts. That is not always easy. And again, it's the Tijani situation, like probably
06:09James Traff situation, some more players. But I think when the club, the player, the manager,
06:18they all think in the same way that probably the best decision for some players is to go, you have
06:23to go.
06:24Just in terms of his playing style, in the friendlies this season, we sort of carry in the ball
06:30quite a lot, the kind of stuff that you seem to want from the players. I guess he's going to
06:37go,
06:37how would you have liked to use him this season? What did you talk to him about as maybe his
06:41best
06:41position? About who? About Rinders still, sorry. About Tijani?
06:46Tij is not done officially, but we'll see in the next hour. I already spoke with him a few times
06:55in pre-season. Then we'll see at the end if he's going to leave or if he's going to stay.
07:07Yeah, in the way he was playing in the pre-season games, I was quite happy with this performance
07:13overall. Knowing that probably, because I know Tij from Italy, from Milan when he was there,
07:19so I know him quite well. I know that probably there he was playing in a different position. He
07:30was good, now we'll see what's happening and then we decide.
07:34Hi Enzo, with Bernardo Silva going with Elliott Anderson arriving in that midfield, how big a task
07:42is it and what are the challenges in constructing a new midfield without Bernardo and with Elliott?
07:48It's a big challenge, first of all, because Bernardo showed how good he is on the ball, off the ball
07:55in
07:55these years. But again, Elliott arrived, we are completely sure that Elliott is doing a great job
08:02for this club in the next one, two, three, four, five years. No doubt about that. They are different
08:09players, they are different players, but we're going to try to use Elliott in the best way for him and
08:16for the
08:17team. And with the possibility of maybe some other midfielders arriving, with the possibility of
08:24maybe Rodri going, how difficult is it for you to plan for this season and to work out what it's
08:29going
08:29to be like in that part of the pitch? Again, we see what's happened. Bernardo already left, we see what's
08:36happened with the rest for sure, with Bernardo, John, Ake already, we see what's happened with some more
08:44players. But there is a change in this moment. And in the moment that the window transfer is closed,
08:51we need to be good enough to find as soon as possible solution for the for the players, for the
08:57team. But again, we are in a moment where, you know, players that they were here for many years,
09:05probably they already left, probably they can leave. And that means that there is a change. We're going to
09:10try to do our best. There are suggestions that Chelsea have set a deadline of today for any
09:18bids for Enzo Fernandes. I know you won't speak specifically about individual players, but do you
09:22anticipate having to do any transfer business today? Not today, to be honest. I don't think we're going to
09:30do something today.
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