00:00They want to play short, sharp football and play between the lines
00:02and the little session we've got on here is just 4 or 5 yard passes
00:06play between the lines that can get out to the white man hook
00:09commentary here
00:11and to the white man cutting inside and he'll put it in the far corner
00:14As in Mike, it's almost like you scripted that one Nicky
00:19but I mean we were sort of saying that when we were watching him
00:22just how sharp the hook and all that, that crispness in the passing
00:27even the beaches, everything's in the back to the left
00:31they're just all really sharp
00:32Yeah, I think that's the most impressive fact
00:34you know, sometimes training sessions are really
00:36at the end of the pre-season when it's like they've come up and tell you
00:40sometimes mentally people walk up a lot of them
00:42because you've got a big game at the weekend
00:44but a lot of times we're playing at it
00:46and obviously we'll touch that we're taking
00:47not just passing it in, they're firing it into each other
00:50testing each other's touch
00:51and the quality of the side of it is exceptional
00:54I know we've been talking about the heat today but let's look at it in a positive way
00:58training in the heat, is that helpful? How is that helpful?
01:03Yeah, it is because it tests fitness levels to the absolute maximum
01:06and you know, these guys have already been away in Asia
01:10and where I know myself, the heat is extreme, the humidity is extreme
01:14and you have to be super, super fit to have a training session out in a prime in a few
01:18minutes
01:19and all that will set you to stay
01:21not for just the first month of the season
01:22but what these guys are doing now
01:24that's tailored down to last through the road season
01:26there's no quick flex, there's no let's go
01:29as fit as we can, as quick as we can
01:31you know, they have to be spent for the longest we can
01:34because we're all in the Premier League,
01:37kind of a club, FA Cup, Champions League
01:39which will pull a ball away in again
01:40and they need to be a fit and wise optimal
01:43I was kind of smiling as we were saying then
01:45because I saw this little drill that we've been doing in front of us here
01:48it ends up with a right-sided player who's left-footly coming in
01:52and kind of bending around the keeper
01:54Nico O'Reilly scored an absolute screamer
01:57I think he was really, I know he scored an absolute screamer
01:59Eileen Arnold's going on
02:01Errrr, it goes up, everyone's cheering
02:03I mean, this guy is just, I mean
02:06if he wasn't big enough before he went to America
02:09his profile now as a player
02:11just finally sold for the performances
02:13that brought him to his country as well
02:15he's on a good level
02:16we all know how good he is in the football world
02:19he's turned himself into a global superstar
02:22you know, when we were chatting just before we came on here
02:25if you weren't watching training
02:27we knew when he had a ball in one at all
02:28he's able to start achieving it every single time he touches it
02:31and look, he deserves it
02:33he's been unbelievable since he came in
02:36and he's been able to do it
02:38and he's been able to do it
02:39and he's been able to do it
02:40and he can't get players progress to that global status
02:43if we play for Angel O'Reilly
02:44and he's just taking it to another level again
02:46Now from one global superstar to another
02:49how difficult is it to manage that profile, Paul?
02:52I'm sure you know, you've been there
02:54On that, they tell us
02:57I think it's not that you really need more credit than you already had
03:00and I think the reason for so many people that didn't know a 4 of 4
03:03that were in love with him obviously is because of his personality as well
03:06and obviously the content we're seeing
03:07Ben has been putting out on his social media channels as well
03:10is showing people just what we've got guys in another couple of years
03:12and people are really valuable to that
03:14I think it's his ability that goes with it as well
03:16you know, that many times you see young kids on that sort of stage
03:21and it gets to their head for a little bit
03:22and they get a little bit arrogant
03:24it seems the bigger he gets
03:27the more he seems to be
03:28and he likes having a laugh
03:30he likes making fun of himself as well
03:32and that endears you to people
03:34you know, when they do more support or that
03:35Absolutely, because I was watching one of his YouTube videos
03:38I'm doing an Alan YouTube
03:39and he was saying that
03:40he was obviously in a yacht somewhere in Europe
03:45that they'd actually chartered boats
03:48to stop past his boat
03:50so they could see him on his boat
03:51and you know, rather than taking it like an invention of privacy
03:55he's laughing, he's waving
03:56you know, he is genuinely
03:59and you can't really estimate
04:01and the memes as well
04:02you can't really estimate how difficult that must be
04:04to kind of add the profile
04:07he's now got globally
04:08but to stay so humble
04:10you know, it's not really just
04:11you know, a lot of people couldn't do
04:12they wouldn't
04:13and it just shows you
04:15erm
04:17erm
04:17the mind
04:18I mean, I've thought about
04:21getting my yacht out into one season as well
04:23but erm
04:23it's not a robot
04:25it's not a robot
04:25it's not a robot
04:26it's not a robot
04:27my little arms wouldn't take me
04:29cooking up
04:29it's not a robot
04:31and Paul back
04:31all sort of training conversation
04:33obviously we know that
04:33one of the players that got into
04:35deeper into the World Cup
04:36came back to training
04:37yesterday
04:39so this is really quick for them to get
04:41straight back into it
04:42with the crowd
04:43working with the game manager
04:44how hard it is
04:46or how easy is it indeed
04:47when you join a training session
04:49when you come in a few weeks later
04:52when
04:53whether it's pre-season
04:54or during the season
04:55if you're not involved in training
04:56and you can see your team mates out there
04:59enjoying themselves
04:59and playing football
05:00you want to get back as quick as you can
05:02you know, and I can see this with the lads
05:04obviously
05:05and Elliot's coming in
05:06there's going to be one of them
05:07there's Jeremy
05:08Niko O'Reilly
05:09and Cherokee
05:09all the ones going back in again
05:11they've got a massive smile on their face
05:13because there's nothing
05:14it's
05:15it's a cliche
05:16but it's like getting back to your family
05:17for a long time
05:18and you'll be late to enjoy a rest
05:20you get just a little rest
05:21but then
05:22you'll be a little bit
05:23to your back
05:25especially with your manager
05:26and we were talking a little bit before
05:28about the new signings
05:29but
05:29me and Natalie were just having a chat there
05:31around
05:32the business that City have done
05:34in the
05:34some of them
05:35contract extension point of view
05:36so
05:36we've secured the futures
05:38of players like
05:39Kadeer Kushinov
05:41from
05:43Kvaviol
05:43Phil Foden
05:44and today
05:45over the last of the days
05:47Jeremy Ndoku as well
05:48how important is that?
05:50because we're talking four players there
05:52who
05:52are absolute quality players
05:54that we know
05:55we're going to have
05:56in the blue shirt
05:57for the next four or five years
05:58and there's four quality players
05:59who have still got the best to come
06:00I think age wise as well
06:02you know
06:02you look at the ages of them
06:03in football
06:04in terms of
06:05they're still babies
06:05they've won more on this spot
06:07so to tie them down
06:08to the next four or five years
06:09and keep that continuity in the squad
06:12especially with a couple of the senior lads
06:13are doing on
06:14I think it's really important
06:15to see Phil
06:16get his extension
06:17and share out
06:18this thing
06:18because we all know
06:21and we all know
06:22what to get around
06:22to the football club
06:23Jeremy Ndoku
06:24was exceptional last season
06:25that's
06:26your school has been
06:27before his injury
06:27so to tie them down
06:29if I'm going to turn their hand
06:30it just shows you
06:31the club's not saying
06:32so
06:33you know
06:33we're always progressing
06:34and we're always going to take that next step
06:36I couldn't agree more about Phil Foden
06:38as well
06:38I just realised that corner of my eye
06:39I can see
06:40there is something here
06:41that would be able to advise
06:43Erling Marland
06:43on what it's like
06:44to be a mega global superstar
06:46because I can see
06:47little Bobby Foden
06:48is signing shirts
06:49on the side of me there
06:50with Foden on his back
06:53there we go
06:54that is someone
06:55that can rival Erling Marland
06:56I couldn't even write my own name
06:58at that age
06:58so he's doing really
07:00I still can't
07:00I still can't
07:01I still can't
07:02we'll just put one on
07:04the leadership group
07:05because obviously
07:06there's been a bit of talk
07:07about it this week
07:08in the press
07:08in regards to
07:09the captain
07:10so they're all out here
07:12and I'm not asking you to put
07:13your name
07:15to ask him
07:16what do you think
07:17the captain's always going to be
07:18looking for
07:19characteristically
07:20from one of the players
07:21I think even with going
07:22before he came in
07:23about his leadership group
07:24especially
07:25the situation
07:26with John Leaven
07:27and Marland Leaven
07:29we've looked at that
07:30as a squad
07:31and probably
07:32marked two or three
07:33that will be there already
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