00:15okay okay good afternoon and thank you for joining us we will take the usual
00:20format today and begin with James of Undra and Sky Sports News way go James
00:31good afternoon everyone I think that we can be very happy with with the whole transfer window
00:38I think that what we started talking in late May early June many things we have accomplished I
00:47think that is a very balanced structure phase one that we have made in this transfer window
00:54with with all that we had and how we where we are now it's a good first one phase one
01:01is completed
01:02this is a good one for for now and for the future I think that we are prepared I'm happy
01:12with a with
01:13the squad with the depth with a complete healthy competition we have in different positions as
01:18well I've mentioned that they are it's a good balance between players of different stage mature
01:25players young players players already that they are in in a good maturity moment as well and we
01:32need to to build that energy during the week to perform on in in the weekends so far just two
01:40games
01:40but it has been a good start and now we we know who's going to be in the building and
01:45that's good
01:45to have this certainty the club allowed Enzo Fernandes to still depart on deadline day despite the fact
01:52you were unable to sign another midfielder is that a decision that you supported or is it something which
01:58you could potentially regret now we we take all the decisions together we have we are responsible for
02:04them we have worked together with with every every decision big ones small ones because we we knew
02:12that ultimately the last goal is to have the benefit the best for the team the best for the squad
02:17the
02:17best for daily daily work here that we want to build a good spirit a good team and we have
02:25always
02:26taken decision thinking that we wanted to reach that was there always an expectation all summer from your
02:32behalf that Enzo Fernandes would leave the club this summer and is there any disappointment that
02:38you didn't fully get the opportunity to work with him well in football many things happen and you you
02:44need to be prepared for for everything and with Enzo we have had a conversations but we always with
02:50with respect as well what he has done for the club it's uh it has been great thankful but now
02:56we
02:57need it's time to to move forward we have the squad that we have we have a lot of big
03:02personalities
03:02players with a lot of quality in all the different positions different lines and now we are we are
03:10ready to go how has Moises Caicedo been since sunday has he been able to train could he be in
03:15line to play
03:16we will check tomorrow last tomorrow is the last decision for the for the squad on sunday
03:21and finally for me how pleased are you that Morgan Rodgers will be wearing the blue of chelsea on sunday
03:27rather than the red of arsenal well talking about the squad planning is taking big decisions for sure
03:35Morgan's one was a big big one to get a player of his stature in present in future he will
03:44be a key
03:45player for the for the next uh six seven years right now he has had a great impact his chemistry
03:52with
03:52with the whole team is great with the chemistry with with his striker partners is fantastic and
03:58and that's happening in short short time it gives us a lot of hope for the future and he looks
04:05really
04:05happy as well so that's that's important thanks james soraya
04:08hi chelsea i want to talk about lacroix he seems to have come in hit the ground running in defense
04:14he's playing quite centrally now we know levi cole we've seen him centrally progressively pass the ball
04:20be really helpful to the attack but it seems like when he's on that left center back position
04:24he has to defend a bit wider and support the team that way how do you actually help levi in
04:30this in
04:30this different position so he doesn't get called out as much and progress as the season goes on no we
04:36need
04:36to have good balance and for sure we know the best qualities of of levi when he's important on the
04:41on the build up uh more on this this left channel not so not so on the wing when he
04:48has different
04:48diagonals that he's able to to see not just what is on the on the on his flank that he's
04:54able to to
04:55to find the the pocket and to the other one but we need to good partnership in defense
05:01make sense is very consistent he's strong he's very connected to the game in terms of personality
05:10in terms of awareness and that we have players that they are they want to to have that impact
05:16this is very good we have talked about morgan but make sense as well he's he's been just for
05:21four four three four weeks here but he's really settling to the team and you touched on it after
05:27brian but i'll bring it up again the 26 possession but it didn't feel like that and all the possession
05:33that chelsea had was productive well after a game you have so many stats and depends what you look
05:41you you can have a different read if you see the the possession tells you something if you see the
05:47xg for
05:47example takes you another thing if you see the number of shots takes you another thing what we want
05:54is we are able to adapt and for sure there will be games that we have a lot of possessions
05:59but we
06:00we are struggling to score against teams that are defending low block to have different tools to have
06:06different ideas how to how to do it and two different approaches is good but we are in early days
06:12we have had two games two wins but we are aware that we can do better we want to do
06:18better some
06:19things that we need to keep doing well other things that we will improve for sure and lastly just about
06:24i know he's been injured but he seems to be that type of player that thrives in like a two
06:29striker
06:29set up likes to be fluid amongst the front three you've got a great front three at the moment when
06:34you
06:34think of your future plans at chelsea what sort of role do you see him playing as well
06:37no i see him playing on the last line when he has a space he's such a big threat he's
06:43been here for
06:44for a few months he had the injury that he missed some part of the precision sorry for him but
06:48he's
06:49he's young he has very special qualities and we we hope that he feels better than and he takes those
06:57steps that he's he's gonna be more involved players young that they come they need to be patient but
07:03knowing that for sure they will have their opportunity thanks soraya nizar
07:16different qualities personalities players that like valentine he's young but he has come with
07:22great energy we have handle that he has the composure the the mentality he has the the he knows what's
07:31going on in the game so where he's getting closer closer to playing time and with rom reese as well
07:38even malo can play so watson as well maddie from the academy we have options and we need to have
07:47the
07:47right balance and we are we think that we have quality competitiveness for for all the season and
07:56to to face each each opponent when it comes to moi sorry i forgot moi yeah but with my um
08:04should we
08:04worry about his fitness because he's sort of um you know you saw what we saw on uh no no
08:09no we we need
08:10to not not uh worry these things that happen and we we need to to check tomorrow we'll take the
08:16final
08:21decision i think that this year knowing that we won't have that many games that we will be able to
08:30manage more minutes to spread uh with and to have a proper distribution depends on the the games depends
08:37on the momentum of each player uh they they hopefully touch wood they don't have that many
08:45that many setbacks because that's what you want from players and especially from from rom that he's
08:51feeling better that we need to push him to to have this consistency in his fitness level okay thanks
08:58thanks everyone camera's off please
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