00:01Good morning, guys. Thanks for amending your schedules to come in on a Sunday morning.
00:14Good in Manchester, yeah.
00:17We will start with the broadcast section with no embargo followed by an embargoed section for 10.30pm tonight.
00:21No live tweeting during the broadcast section and use the microphone provided. Michael.
00:25Thanks, Ant. Hi, Roberto. Good morning. Who is not available to play tomorrow?
00:30Good. Savio. Unfortunately, Savio, Tuesday, yeah, Tuesday, the first day in our training ground before to leave to Marbella.
00:42He felt a muscular problem and we lost him for some weeks, unfortunately, but like this.
00:51Oh, that's great.
00:52And Lukas Bergwald. Because he had a problem at the beginning of the game in Manchester.
01:01The first chance we created with Solanke when he regained the ball, his knee, he felt pain and they finished
01:15the game.
01:15But the day after of Manchester, Sunday, he came to training ground to our medical staff and I think two
01:27weeks.
01:29Okay. Thank you. So with that, maybe Kulishevski on the bench tomorrow?
01:34Yes. Kulishevski on the bench. We had a meeting with the medical staff and they gave the okay and it's
01:45a great news.
01:45I think he's one of the best news after the Everton game last season. Because Dickie suffered too much. He
01:58deserved to feel emotion on the pitch.
02:07I mean, disappointing for Savio, but how was the trip? Was it a good trip away with the squad? I
02:13know it works for you before. Was it fun? Hard work?
02:17Yes, we worked well. Very well. But anyway, we worked well in our training at home. I think when you
02:30have to improve and I think we have to improve in the results, not in the quality of the performances,
02:37but you have to find all ways to improve. Always to be better, always to become a stronger group. The
02:49players spend time together and they stay together a lot.
02:55I think to create something more than normal first eleven. Now I think and I believe in football, you need
03:07a group, you need the relationships, we need the connection, we need to know very well your teammates.
03:19Richarlison played for the under-21s in midweek. He's still quite vocal on social media. Is the plan still for
03:26a new solution for him in January?
03:28I don't know. It's not my problem anymore. You have to ask to Vinay, to Johan. It's not my problem.
03:43I know as a coach I have to accept, to support pressure, to take responsibility even if it's not my
03:53responsibility because I didn't decide. I have not decided nothing in this situation.
04:02If he wants to speak about me, he knows where he can find me. I stay in my office from
04:10the 8.30 until the evening. I have no problem with nobody but I don't want to speak anymore because
04:20my focus is on Coventry game
04:26and the focus is just to improve my team.
04:31Good luck.
04:34Hi, good morning. You just mentioned that you've got Frank Lampard's Coventry next. They seem to be in a better
04:40place than they was at the start of the season.
04:42You said yourself you've been producing quality performances but the results, it's just very close. How do you assess Coventry
04:50and what sort of challenge do you think you'll face tomorrow?
04:55Coventry is a good team. They played a fantastic championship last season. They deserve to win the league and to
05:05play in Premier League this season.
05:09They played with energy, with quality also because they have players, Sheriff, I know very well, and other players. But
05:21we are Tottenham.
05:29keeping humble, keeping humility, keeping what you want, but we want to show to be good enough to win the
05:40games, especially if they deserve to win the games.
05:44You just touched on it a little bit there, but obviously taking the squad to Marbella, when you take a
05:49squad away from their normal environment,
05:51what do you as manager, what can you learn more about your players or is it more about your players
05:57learning more about each other?
05:58No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:00no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:05no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:05no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:06no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:07no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
06:20be a team. But I think in Manchester, especially in the toughest moment after the red card,
06:33we show we have character. So we have to show character from the beginning at home with
06:39our fans. If we want, we can change the history of this season and the last season as well.
06:52A lot of managers have said it's our job to get the team to the final third of the pitch
06:58and then it's down to the players to finish the chances. When it comes down to the team
07:03being clinical, how much of that can you actually help the player or is that more of their natural
07:08instinct?
07:09No, I think if we didn't score or if we scored just one goal creating eight, nine chances,
07:24my work is to improve the team to create 20 chances to score. And if they are not enough,
07:3425-30. I think we have not other ways. I have big confidence in the players. I think if we
07:52follow to playing in this way, if you follow to attack, if you follow to defend in this
08:00way and if you follow to creating so many chances to score, we will score many goals and we will
08:11win many, many games. But it's my opinion.
08:14Perfect. Good luck.
08:15Pass the mic to Ali, please.
08:22I just want to check quickly on some of those injuries. Savio, do you think it will be a
08:25lot of weeks?
08:27I don't know, but some weeks for sure.
08:33And Pedro Poro, where is he at?
08:34No, Pedro, I think he's coming. Maybe in Chelsea he can play.
08:43Fantastic. With Kulusevski, what was that moment like when you were able to say to him,
08:48you're going to be in my matchday squad?
08:54Yesterday, after the training, I spoke with him and I said to him, I spoke with the medical
09:04staff and they gave me the OK and he smiled like this. And we are happy. We are very,
09:16very happy. But he's not football. I'm not speaking about football. OK, he's a special player.
09:23But we are speaking about different things. He suffered a lot and his reaction was great.
09:39I just want to ask you about the trip to Marbella. Did you do any special group activities?
09:43I remember like Mircea Pochettino when he did one years back, they like walked over hot
09:47coals with the team and things like that. Is there anything special that you did with them?
09:50No, no. I left dinner for them and nothing organised from me.
09:58Thank you. OK, we'll end the broadcast section there.
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