00:00Whenever he comes back, hopefully soon, it's quite an inspirational comeback story.
00:08Have you ever dealt with a player who's been out for so long?
00:11How much can it be an inspiration to the rest of the team?
00:14It's been a difficult start so far, but seeing how well he's fought back.
00:19Yes, he's an inspiration because, like I said, he reacted very well with character,
00:25with courage, with passion. Yes, passion. Good word, passion.
00:36And we have to take inspiration from Deki.
00:43I said in the meeting to the players, I said the same.
00:51Have you ever dealt with a player who's been out for as long as he has?
00:57No, but me, as a player, I suffer many times of long injuries.
01:05You know, the injury is bad because you lose football,
01:10but it's nice because you come inside of yourself and you know yourself better than before the injury.
01:20And you can start the communication with you better.
01:26You find the motivation, you fix the target, you fix the goal, you become stronger.
01:32If you react in the right way to the injury, like if you react well in the right way to
01:41this situation of our club,
01:44the table, this season, last season, two seasons ago, I think you become better.
01:49You become better as a player, for sure. You become stronger as a player and you become better as a
01:55man.
01:56It's been a long few weeks for Spurs fans looking at the league table. Have you just tried to avoid
02:03looking at it throughout this international run?
02:10No, I suffer a lot, but we have just one way to do.
02:21Other things is nothing. We have to give something more. We have to remove the excuse.
02:36Well, I think we have a great squad, a great players. The club is perfect. We have nothing bad in
02:47this club.
02:49Words. The people speak too much, but if you listen to Roberto, if you listen to me, the club is
02:59top.
03:00The players are top and we have to react. Finally, we have to show who we are, without excuse, taking
03:11our responsibility
03:12and showing who we are on the pitch and outside of the pitch also.
03:20On the three-week break, how do we find it? Generally, it's obviously the first time we've had such a
03:27long international break.
03:29I just wondered if, for your thoughts on that, the concept of whether you think it should be kept or
03:33what you prefer to be on.
03:35Well, it's the first time. I don't know if it's good or not. I think the national team are important
03:48because you are playing for your nation.
03:53We have to respect, like the national team, they have to respect the players because they work and they receive
04:01salary from the club and not from the national team.
04:04But I think nothing changes. One week or two weeks, nothing. Many games in a row, for sure.
04:11But football is going in this direction and we can do nothing.
04:18On Manchester United, I wonder what do you make of the job that Carrick has been doing there?
04:23What do you think of Carrick's work at the United?
04:27Well, they are working well, I think, but I don't know. I don't like speaking to the other coaches and
04:35other teams.
04:37Have you been surprised to see Manchester United struggling?
04:45Well, we are at the beginning of the season. Many, many, many clubs have not started yet.
04:54But I watch many times Manchester United and I don't know if they are in a bad moment.
05:04I think they are playing well. I watched the game, also the last game in Fulham with Brighton as well.
05:102-0 and then they lost 3-2. I think they are not in the bad moment.
05:19Alex?
05:20Hello, Roberto.
05:22Tottenham have had a lot of the balls in a lot of the games this season,
05:26but going away to Old Trafford to play against Manchester United,
05:29you might actually see a little bit less of this
05:31and have the opportunity to play in transitions on the counter a little bit more.
05:35Do you think that might suit the team?
05:47All teams, they have to be able to adapt to the game, no?
05:52Because the ideal would be to keep the ball all the time and create 20 chances to score
06:04and conceding zero chances to score.
06:08But you have to adapt, you have to prepare the game like you are, like you think, like you believe.
06:18And we have, I think, a clear style.
06:21And then we have to adapt.
06:23We are playing against a top team away.
06:28They have great players.
06:33But for sure we don't go away to play just to stay in our half of the pitch and counter
06:43-attack.
06:43We try to play a game.
06:45Sometimes you stay in your half of the pitch, sometimes you defend, sometimes you keep the ball,
06:51sometimes you press higher, it's the game.
06:56Exactly the problem of us now is we are two teams.
07:03We are one team who take the control of the game, create chance, create nothing concerning.
07:13And the other moment, we have problems to defend well.
07:23We are not able to create too many chances, depends on the moment of the game.
07:28No, we have to become better in the consistency during the same game.
07:37What's your kind of vision of the midfield that we've seen a lot this season?
07:41I think perhaps a lot of people presume because they spend so much money on Tonali and Fernandez
07:47that they play a lot together.
07:48But we've seen Bensinko play, we've seen Gallagher play.
07:51Do you think, you know, having, you think you kind of found the right kind of rhythm in midfield configuration
07:58there?
08:10No, no. We brought Tonali and Fernandez, but we didn't forget Betancourt and Bergval.
08:19They are the same because Betancourt, Bergval, Tonali and Mateus Fernandez are more or less in the same level of
08:31the players.
08:32And we can play with Betancourt, with Bergval, with Tonali, with Mateus, but it's not because we paid many big
08:43prices.
08:43Yes, we have to play with the new players. It's normal football.
08:52Are you expecting the Betancourt?
08:55Yes, I expected to improve the individual performances, yes.
09:00I think so far we have not shown all qualities, individual qualities.
09:11Also Savino, also Marmouche, Mateus, Sandro, Tonali.
09:17Also JP, also JP Van Eyck can play much better.
09:22And it's a process, but now we have to force this process.
09:30Can you give us any more detail on what you did in the last three weeks?
09:37Did you go on holiday? Did you tell your players to go on holiday?
09:41Did you work on fitness or did you work on tactics?
09:45No, we work on fitness, we push, we work a lot in the physical aspect, we work a lot in
09:59the tactical aspect.
10:03Like I said, the players who stay with me, they work very well and very hard.
10:09Did you take a holiday?
10:12Yes, after the first week we stay on holiday, yes.
10:20Did you go somewhere nice and forget about stars?
10:25No, no, but if you work with passion, if you work like me, you can't forget.
10:35You can't come inside of your home and forget the work, especially this type of moment is inside of you.
10:48You can't separate two things.
10:55What do you think, again, what do you think of the three weeks?
11:03Bentancur played in India, South Korea, Japan.
11:10How does that leave him when he comes back to you?
11:19Well, Bentancur is one of the best professional players.
11:26He's ready to play tomorrow.
11:29Yeah, for sure, you have to consider the trip, you have to consider the distance from India to England, but
11:41he's already inside of his club.
11:45I spoke yesterday morning with him.
11:49He's on the same page of us.
11:52The players are used to playing with the national team.
11:59Can I ask Kuliszewski, where do you see him in his team or position?
12:08Winger, number 10.
12:10I think I prefer him as a number 10, but Kuliszewski is a football player.
12:16Football players can play everywhere.
12:20Okay, we'll go with James and then finish with Sam, please.
12:23Hi Roberto.
12:25After five games last season in the Premier League, Aston Villa were in a very similar position to where you
12:32are now.
12:32I think they had maybe three points instead of two, but they also have not won any of their first
12:37five games.
12:38And they went on to win 12 at their next 13 games and qualified for Champions League ultimately.
12:46Is that sort of turnaround? Is that possible? Is that realistic?
12:50Yes, it's possible. Why not?
12:57But to do what Villa did, we have to have a click.
13:07Do you think that that first win could be transformative?
13:16Yes, I think so.
13:17But I think the first win is not a gift for God. You have to deserve to win.
13:26And we didn't deserve to win so far.
13:54No, I think I don't believe in lucky and lucky.
13:58I believe in if you are a group or not, if you are the right spirit or not, if you
14:09have a passion or not, if you are ambitious or not, if you have a big motivation or not.
14:16And lucky, lucky is nothing.
14:20I think.
14:21It's time to finish, please.
14:22Hi, Roberto.
14:23Luke Williams-Barnham enjoyed a really good international break.
14:26He's also included in the first team photo.
14:27I mean, how close is he to be included?
14:30I'm thinking.
14:31I'm thinking because he's another special player.
14:38But he's very young and the management of the very, very young players is very complicated.
14:49Because sometimes you want to be the good of the players, of you, but you are not doing the good
15:01of the player.
15:02But I think he arrived at the moment when Luka will play because he's a special talent, special personality also.
15:22Because he has an arrogant, but arrogant good for football.
15:32Because you have to believe in yourself, not forgetting to be humble.
15:45Anyway, humility, but believe in yourself.
15:50And the right example is Luka Bardem.
15:54There's a lot of competition for places in the tackle.
15:56Obviously, Kylosetski looks like he's closing in on a return.
15:59Where do you see his best position, Luke Williams-Barnham?
16:02And can you see him playing across the front line?
16:04Luka?
16:04Yeah.
16:04Well, number 10, but also as a winger, because he has the physical qualities to play as a winger.
16:15Okay, thank you.
16:16Bye-bye.
