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Richarlison is a good guy - De Zerbi on wantaway striker
Enfield Way
Richarlison is a good guy - De Zerbi on wantaway striker
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00:00You mentioned that players lack confidence and freedom when they want to get better in training.
00:07Can you explain that?
00:08No, no, no.
00:09But it's normal, no, because we started the season not ready yet as a team.
00:14We lost 3-0.
00:16It's tough.
00:17We played with Newcastle and we are playing.
00:21No fantastic game, but good enough to win the game.
00:25And we lost 2-0 without...
00:27For my numbers, okay, the numbers are...
00:33When you lose, no, you speak about numbers,
00:37but nine chances to score with Newcastle against three of Newcastle
00:42and you lose the game 2-0, it's tough to accept.
00:46And then I think in Nottingham we played a good game,
00:52a typical physical game in Premier League against one team.
00:58Good, because two years ago they went in Champions League,
01:02Europe League and they fight to go in Champions League.
01:08They are playing with the same first eleven from a long time.
01:11Just develop, change the new Nottingham in this season right now.
01:20And so I think I would like we can play better with more confidence,
01:29with more energy, taking more risk in every position of the pitch.
01:34But every position on the pitch is not to take risk playing not seriously.
01:44No, seriously, but with personality.
01:46With personality, like a big team, like big players.
01:51But I think and I'm sure we arrive, we achieve this goal.
01:59I would like to accelerate this process.
02:03You said at the start of the season you seemed really confident
02:07you said that the squad had like bigger and you said big potential
02:10to possibly challenge the title or certainly be up there.
02:13Are you still confident after the start that the team are going to be up top of the table
02:17for the first to sort of fight?
02:18You are still confident, you have already said in precedence,
02:27I believe in this group.
02:31I didn't say exactly what you said now because I said different.
02:36I said before to fix the target we have to become teams before Brentford game.
02:47But if you provoke me to this question, I love my players, I love this group.
02:54I think they have big qualities, but it's not enough.
02:59We have to show, we have to show the qualities, we have to score the goals.
03:05If we want to win the games, to score goals, we have to shoot and we have to build the
03:12situation to score goals.
03:19Also in the defensive phase we are working better, we are playing better in Nottingham.
03:26We didn't suffer nothing. Why? Because I think the focus was better, the attention was higher,
03:34but also because we worked more on the week.
03:43Hi Roberto, on the subject of Richarlison, I know it must be quite frustrating for you.
03:51For me? No, no. I'm sorry because I have one player less on the list.
04:02And Richarlison is a good guy, very good guy.
04:07And I spoke with him a lot of time and I spent time to convince him to stay.
04:18But if you ask me, I know the truth. I know what happened in the last month, in the last
04:2645 days.
04:28And it's clear. But I'm not frustrated. Why?
04:33So it seems to me that you're frustrated with how it's being portrayed from the outside,
04:38as opposed to the people who know exactly what's going on.
04:40Is it fair, at least, to describe that it's a bit of a mess, this situation with Richarlison?
04:46Would it be correct to say that the situation with Richarlison was a bit chaotic?
04:53Well, I think, I have to repeat, I know what the club has done in the last 45 days with
05:08him.
05:08And what was the behaviour of Richarlison?
05:14What does that mean?
05:17I'm clear, I think. I can't explain because it's not right.
05:23But I'm sorry because it could be different.
05:31Even the end of the story.
05:35Okay, but in different ways, I think, would have been better, no?
05:41Or, or, was much better, Richarlison inside of the list.
05:50Richarlison happy to stay.
05:52Maybe to extend his contract.
05:55Because anyway, he's still an important player.
05:59He was important last season.
06:01We can't forget.
06:04But we can't forget also in the last 45 days.
06:09Just lastly, when you came to the Premier League in Brighton,
06:13you were seen by many as a sort of tactical innovator.
06:16Some of you did things on the pitch with tactics that not really seem before.
06:20I just wonder, since then, how much do you think the Premier League has caught up
06:25with some of your ideas?
06:26How much you're having to innovate again?
06:36No, I think the Premier League in the last 3-4 years, if you compare with my time in Brighton,
06:48is, for sure, is higher intensity, higher physicality, higher duel.
06:54If you watch the game in Nottingham, it was a bad game.
06:59No football, like a duel, like a second ball, more for them.
07:07Because we tried to play.
07:13We played 47 minutes in the Joko Effectivo.
07:18Effective time of play.
07:22The same in Brentford.
07:26The intensity of the game is higher than...
07:33And with the ball, more or less, it's the same.
07:37Because you can't find many teams in possession so nice.
07:45Because it's tough to play.
07:47Against this intensity, this defensive phase, it's not easy.
07:51The Premier League is totally different than Serie A, than Ligue 1, than Ligue 1, than Ligue 1.
08:01Different intensity, different structure of the players.
08:06Physical structure of the players.
08:09But we have to adapt, for sure.
08:11And in any way we can play better than Nottingham.
08:33We can improve this number winning the game, but like I said, before winning the game, we have to find
08:43the conduct.
08:44We have to build the condition to win the game.
08:48So we have to play better, we have to play with more confidence, with more energy, with more personality, with
08:55more courage.
08:55I think the qualities are enough to build this condition, to find this condition.
09:07Nothing more, I think.
09:08Because if you think too much, I think you come inside a black way.
09:13No.
09:14I think good players, they know how to play with the ball and without the ball.
09:22And to play more, more, more easy, no?
09:29It seems like the players seem to struggle under the pressure of playing at home with the fans.
09:34No, I think, I think no.
09:37Because in Nottingham we didn't play at home, we play away.
09:42And if we watch the game together, I show you how many times there was the space and the time
09:49to play better and better and better.
09:52With more courage, with more disponibilità.
09:59But it's a process.
10:02And now we have to be strong, but anyway we have to be...
10:05No, because we have to be.
10:07I'm positive because the qualities of the players and the problems we have had in these two months.
10:22Players of World Cup, players late in the transfer market.
10:27That is a normal price to pay.
10:46Was part of your, I don't know, pitch to convince him that it's more valuable to be a squad player
10:54or potentially a rotational player at Tottenham
10:56and play coach under you and under your kind of tactical skill than it is to develop playing more consistently
11:03elsewhere, potentially?
11:13No, I think, no, I think he's a central midfielder.
11:21I think he can complete his qualities.
11:30For example, we spoke three days ago at the beginning of the week and they said,
11:39Lucas, one player like you, he can't lose two balls like you lost in the Brentford game.
11:48Especially in that game, in that moment of the game, you are playing in the first eleven.
11:53I can't change my opinion about your qualities because you are a big talent.
11:58By the end, you have to improve in the experience, the experience you can improve playing.
12:10Yes, but understanding the improvement we have to do.
12:16And he was, I agree, a smart guy.
12:19Yesterday I spoke with mother and father, great people.
12:28And now I would like to stay in touch with the father because I would like to help the player,
12:35I would like to help the guy before the player because he's a big potential.
12:43And we didn't accept offer in the transfer market for him, big offer.
12:48So I think the confidence the club has, the coach has, is high.
12:56Because maybe, okay, we spent, but we have players good enough to sell and to bring money.
13:05And if we didn't sell Lucas, it's because all of us, we are convinced to have a big future potential
13:18player.
13:18But also now, he's a good player.
13:22You mentioned the kind of physical level of the Premier League being so high.
13:28After the Forest game last week, you spoke about how Solanke had that chance towards the end.
13:32And if he was closer to his best prime physical level, that's the chance that he made me take.
13:37How close is he to that prime level and how much of a role do you still think he has
13:43to play?
13:44I think he's close and he's a crucial player for us.
13:51Don't miss Solanke.
13:52For the characteristics, for the personality, for the level of the player.
14:01He's very close.
14:02After two times on the bench, Newcastle and Nottingham, I think he could start the game.
14:15Or anyway, Tuesday he can start the game.
14:19But the Premier League, like I said, the intensity, the physicality of the Premier League now is…
14:26Because in terms of quality of the play, I think it's worse now than three years ago.
14:33But not for one team in general.
14:38But not because the players or the coaches are not good enough.
14:43Because it's very tough.
14:45You have no space.
14:49You have no time.
14:50You have more dual compared to three, four seasons ago.
14:56And you have to adapt your idea.
15:02For example, now many, many teams defend man-to-man higher.
15:10You have two decisions.
15:12Or you try to go out and it's not easy.
15:16Or you have to fight for the second ball.
15:20Or to prepare something different.
15:27To fight, to compete man-to-man higher, not close to the goal.
15:34And the football is going in this direction.
15:37Especially in Premier League.
15:39And in Champions League, when you play against top, top team.
15:44Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain.
15:47It's the level.
15:55Can you play Solanke and Mamouche together?
16:00I don't know.
16:02Maybe.
16:05Do you expect to try?
16:07Do you think it has to be one or the other?
16:10They can play together.
16:12They can play one and the other on the bench.
16:15They can't.
16:16No.
16:17I think one has to play.
16:19Now we need at least one.
16:24At least one.
16:25Yes, but they can play together.
16:28I don't know when.
16:30But when we sign Marmouche, we fought to bring Marmouche.
16:39Also because he could play with another striker.
16:45Or alone.
16:48Because I think Marmouche is playing well.
16:50Also in Nottingham, he played a good game.
16:54Not a fantastic game.
16:55Not a fantastic decision.
17:00Last decision.
17:00But he was alive.
17:03He was inside of the game.
17:04He was.
17:06He seems like to be like dangerous.
17:10No?
17:10In every situation.
17:12Smart.
17:14Understand football.
17:15Understand where the ball goes.
17:19I like it until now.
17:21So far.
17:21We were all concerned about your goals.
17:23I think this is lots of questions about the strikers.
17:26Because you don't score a goal.
17:28Is this something that just clicks?
17:31But in terms of goals, it's not Eric Kane.
17:34No.
17:36But I think he can score more goals than he has done in the last two seasons.
17:43In Man City, I don't want to speak because it's not my experience.
17:50But in N-Track Francoforte, he scored many goals.
17:56He played with another striker close to him.
18:00Sometimes.
18:01And sometimes not.
18:02But if you analyze his qualities, he can score more goals.
18:11And he has to demand himself to score more goals.
18:15Even the stupid goals.
18:17He has to change habits.
18:19To use to scoring.
18:23Also not a great goal.
18:27You understand?
18:30Just to be clear, I'm wondering.
18:32Did he continue to train after the injury?
18:37No, no.
18:37Stop it.
18:39No?
18:40He stopped to train.
18:42He stopped to train, but only two days later?
18:45No.
18:46The medical check, two days after.
18:49Why not immediately?
18:51Because when you have an injury on the ankle, you have to...
18:57Wait a couple of days before to go on the medical check.
19:03Because otherwise the...
19:04Otherwise the medical check can't show the real issue.
19:11Okay, thank you.
19:12Matt, finish please.
19:14While he's at the club, will Charles now continue to train with your group?
19:26Yes.
19:27But by now he's keeping training.
19:31When I have to work in a tactical part, aspect or I can't work with too many players.
19:41Yes.
19:41But at the end, yes.
19:43Given the injury of Woodrich, and given that Javison can't play until March, April, whatever,
19:51do you regret not having the chance in the middle of 25 months later?
20:03Well...
20:15If I would have decided by my own to leave him outside of the squad, I would have regrets.
20:26But the decision has not even been taken by the club.
20:29It has been a consequence.
20:34It has been a consequence.
20:37That's what I told you already last week.
20:41That he has decided by his own.
20:45I mean, he was Tottenham's top goalscorer last season.
20:51Second top scorer, I think, was Palinia.
20:54It was Romero, maybe the other way around.
20:56He might have gotten too mixed up.
20:58The three top goalscores aren't available to you.
21:01Are you confident you have enough goals in your squad?
21:04Yes, but Solanke didn't play many games.
21:08And I would like, I hope Solanke can play, can be available this season than the last season.
21:22Marmouche didn't play for Tottenham last season.
21:25Savio didn't play for Tottenham.
21:30And then all players, they have to push.
21:38Matistele has to improve.
21:39Because Matistele is another Lucas Bergvall or Archie Gray.
21:43Now he's 22 years and he has to push to show.
21:49Because the level of football is...
21:52Or you show who you are and what you can do.
21:56Or you lose the level.
22:03I think we can score goals with this squad.
22:06But we have to say, we have to see.
22:10Okay, thank you.
22:13Good luck.
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