00:16Hi guys, we'll start with the broadcast section that's got no embargo, followed by an embargoed section for 10.30pm
00:21tonight, no live tweeting during the broadcast section, use the microphone provided, we've got a hard stop in 30 minutes,
00:26we'll ask for three questions a person.
00:28How many? How many minutes?
00:3030.
00:32No, we'll move on to training.
00:37It's not important.
00:38Hi Roberto, how are you? You good?
00:40Yeah.
00:41Good. Can you just get your reaction to the latest sign-in Omar Mahmoush Tottenham Hotspur?
00:45Great sign for us, a great player, another great player. Every one of us love him as a player and
00:58we hope he can do what he is able.
01:03I think he can give more solutions in attack. We need players in attack capable to score goals, to play
01:13well with the ball also. Very fast player, great qualities and we are all happy, very happy.
01:24Is that done do you think? Or maybe one more, one more Bomba left before the deadline time?
01:29No, I think Savio and Marmoush are bomba. I don't know what name, how you can call them but are
01:45player high level for sure.
01:53Obviously the deadline on Tuesday, do you expect any more business in or out anyone to leave?
01:59It can be possible out in the transfer market. Like I said, last Tuesday is crazy and we have to
02:11be able to find the players, the new players.
02:17We will see if some players go out, leave or to make another player in. I don't know. It's different
02:32now. The transfer market is crazy. You can't understand the transfer market.
02:41It's alright.
02:42Hi everybody, so good to see you. Tottenham against Newcastle. This is the most play efficient in the Premier League
02:48to never finish with the scoreline of 0-0.
02:51So if we go by that we should expect a lot of goals this weekend. What do you want to
02:55do from your side in an attacking sense?
02:57Listen, Newcastle sold many players, many good players but they close other very good players, young. It's a young team,
03:09quick players, good players but we lost the first game in Blenford.
03:19And I think we have to play better, much better. We have to fight in a different way and we
03:29need to make results for sure.
03:31Even if we have new players, we play in our stadium. We are working well with the right atmosphere, with
03:46enthusiasm for the new players.
03:53It's a difficult game, tough game, but in the Premier League they are not easy games, simple games.
04:00After the last game you said we can show our qualities better, we need to show who we are and
04:05we need time to become a team. Is that time genuinely just the chemistry on the pitch or you need
04:10more time?
04:10Yes, but time to be better, but we don't have time to win the game. Anyway we can win the
04:21game.
04:22Maybe we are not ready yet to play of our best in terms of physical condition, in terms of style
04:32of play, quality of play.
04:34But anyway, we have the quality enough right now to win the game and to play much better because it's
04:42normal to play better than we did in Blenford.
04:46And lastly, another one on Monomouche. How important is it that he can come in and play basically across the
04:52front three and add that versatility and is kind of prem-proven for you?
04:56Is it important he hits the ground running immediately or do you think again someone else that's going to need
05:00some time?
05:06Yes, I think he works well. He's a very smart player, understands football like a coach. I hope like a
05:20coach maybe not less and not more. But he understands football, he feels football.
05:28He can cover different positions on the pitch. Anyway, we need to offer all his qualities because we have not
05:41qualities like him on our squad. He was the perfect player.
05:51Hi, Roberto, how are you? Hi, good. You described the transfer window as crazy. Is it time to have the
05:59transfer window shut before the season starts?
06:04It's a rule on the football and we have to adapt. You can't change. Like I said, we have to
06:11understand that you can't understand but you have to accept.
06:14I think it's crazy. By the end we are very happy for the transfer market we have done until now.
06:20Because we signed all very good players, young players also.
06:27because Mateus Fernandes and Savio are very young players and these are good things for the club because the potential
06:40of these two players is amazing.
06:44We brought experience. Tonali, Tonali, Robertson, Senesi and JP Van Eyck. Good guys because I think the atmosphere and the
06:58behaviour inside the dressing room is important,
07:01like the qualities of the player in this moment of football and I'm very, very happy.
07:09The transfer market has been more than my expectation at the beginning of the transfer market open.
07:19Last week you said you liked working with smaller squads rather than bigger lots of players.
07:25You brought in seven or eight players this summer. I know some have already gone but does that mean that
07:31you will probably be looking for more people to leave before or on Tuesday so you have a small squad?
07:42Listen, I've been very clear with every player, with all players.
07:47If you speak clearly at the beginning you can't expect surprise.
07:53The players who want to leave, they left.
08:01Maybe we have some players who want to leave and they are waiting the offer.
08:13I think to stay here they have to feel proud, happy to stay here.
08:20A long season but it's an emotional season I think because we are building a new project with new players.
08:30after we stayed up last season and we need the right spirit for sure. First of all the right spirit
08:39and then the qualities, the organisation of the play.
08:44But I can remove in my mind the right spirit at the beginning.
08:53And finally off the back of that, if let's say I'm a player with you and I want to leave
08:59but nobody wants to buy me.
09:00How hard is that for you then throughout the season to have players who wanted to go but nobody wanted
09:07them and you're stuck with them if you wanted a better player?
09:12No, for me no. For me it's not a problem. If you want to leave and you have not found
09:23the offer, it's your problem, not my problem.
09:27I give respect, I kiss you, I hug you and you have to stay calm on the side of the
09:37dressing room and not to speak too much because the rules have been clear at the beginning, at the end
09:43of the season.
09:45It's not my problem.
09:49Can I ask you about team news and also whether players like Savio, Mahmoud, Sheporo, Van der Ven, are they
09:55fit enough to start?
09:56Yes, we are all in the right condition to play, maybe Kudos can come on the bench, we have to
10:04see.
10:07Van der Ven is right to play, we have a look, we have to understand the beginning or part of
10:14the game like Savio,
10:16Pedro, Marmoud, Marmoud is available to play, maybe also at the beginning of the game.
10:29Robertson is like Udoge, Udoge is a good news for us because Udoge is very important and he played well
10:3860 minutes like was the plan.
10:44All players remember me.
10:51Enrico is sleeping.
10:55With Marmoud, he obviously is so versatile but where do you see him as the best position, is he a
11:00central striker?
11:03I think he can play centre striker, number 10, different number 10 than Gallagher, Maddison, more attacker but he is
11:18a player of big qualities.
11:21The most important is to have players with qualities and we try to find why I said we need time.
11:40Also for me to understand the balance, the connection in the first eleven, because it is not like immediately the
11:52understanding of the characteristic of the players.
11:58The team is 11 players and you have to find the connection, the balance between them.
12:07I hope I would like to find the right first eleven, but not the first eleven as a name or
12:16players, as a balance.
12:20The other balance you have to find as well, the Premier League squad rules, you have to have a certain
12:24amount of foreign players, a certain amount of home ground players, how difficult is it to balance that?
12:28It is another good question, it is an important question.
12:33I think he is right, because if we want the future of football, we have to put the eyes on
12:39the young players, the English players.
12:46And it is normal part, like when you have to give the squad for the Champions League or the European
12:55League plan, it is normal.
12:59It is one point, maybe we can't speak too much about this, but it is an important point, important thing.
13:10Hi Roberto, just following on the injury front, with James Madison, how is he getting on?
13:15Yeah, James Madison has not a big problem, but he felt pain in Brentford on the shoulder, the left shoulder,
13:25I think.
13:27He is working, but I don't know if he is available for tomorrow.
13:33And Pat Matassar as well, a few fitness issues, how is he getting on?
13:38Pape, no, he is good, we have to see in the last day of the transfer market what can happen
13:46with him.
13:47Can I finish this section with George, please?
13:50Hi Roberto, just with James Madison, does everyone need to be patient with him, because he did have a big
13:55injury, he came back to help the team in May, but it is going to take time for him to
14:00build fitness when he is...
14:01No, with James, I think we have to find the right plan. We have to work consistently for three, four
14:14weeks, and then he is a different player.
14:17He is a different player on the pitch, out of the pitch, as a personality, as an experience, he is
14:23a very positive guy.
14:26We are lucky to have James in our team.
14:33And just finally, if the transfer window ended now, would you be happy with what has happened so far?
14:39Listen, yes, because I told you ten minutes ago, I didn't expect one transfer market, one window like we have
14:58done.
14:59I think we can do one player more in one specific position, but yesterday we went for dinner with the
15:13owner, with Vinay, with Johan and with Enrico.
15:22And we spoke about this, but we have all of us on the same page, and there is a very
15:30good connection.
15:32We'll end the broadcast section there.
