00:00Hi Enzo, you're talking about the club and taking over and you need to start winning straight away and things
00:05like that.
00:06When you've spoken to the club about targets for this season and what would be a good season,
00:11have you had those conversations and would it be like trophies or league position or performances?
00:16How are they seeing it and what's the demand for you?
00:19At the beginning of the season you don't set a target in terms of trophies.
00:24The target since day one has been quite clear with the club, with the players, is to compete,
00:28to arrive March, April, to be there and then we see what's happening.
00:35Obviously you've talked a lot about transfers earlier on.
00:38I've been asked a lot about transfers and how many players need to still come into the squad,
00:42but does it feel like something's a little bit missing at the moment?
00:46Obviously with the World Cup it's not been easy to do transfers early,
00:49but going into the season on Sunday there are obviously gaps in the squad
00:56and it looks like there's more players leaving than coming in.
00:59How does that feel heading into the season?
01:02I think it's a feeling for most of the club, not all the club,
01:07because some clubs probably prefer to do the business at the beginning
01:11or at the end of the previous season.
01:13I think we are almost in the same situation as the club.
01:16It's ten days to go, hopefully we can do the things that we need to do.
01:21That's the help that there are players that for different reasons they want to leave,
01:26this is for sure, but we need to adapt and also we don't want to keep here players
01:31that they don't want to stay, for sure.
01:34Just publicly, over the last week, with a lot of players going out
01:38and not so much coming in, I think supporters are a bit concerned that,
01:42I don't know, maybe you're running out of time,
01:44but how comfortable do you feel, because you all know more than us,
01:47how comfortable do you feel that things are actually on track
01:50and in ten days' time it's not going to look as alarming as it does now?
01:56I think, again, it's a similar situation for all the club, all the fans,
02:02because you are waiting to do things
02:04and probably the normal thing in window transfer is that you have to wait the last week
02:09because all the club, they try to keep players until the last week
02:12and then sell with more money, it's normal, it's normal.
02:16So, again, I'm not worried about that,
02:19and when the window transfer is closed and we have all the school there,
02:23for sure it will be different.
02:25Hi, Enzo.
02:27Obviously, as a manager, your job is a lot about solving problems,
02:31but when you lose a player like Rodri, who is arguably the best in the world in his position...
02:36How do you solve the problem?
02:38I mean, is it one player, is it two players,
02:40or does it give you an extra kind of challenge?
02:44I try to find the new Rodri.
02:46It's where it is.
02:48Rodri, when I arrived here, he didn't win the Ballon d'Or,
02:51he didn't win the Champions League, he didn't win the Club World Cup,
02:55then joined the club, and then after, you know, he achieved many important things.
03:00So now the target for us is try to find the new Rodri.
03:04I think when I was thinking last night, when David Silva was here, everyone was worried.
03:12Kevin arrived.
03:15When Aguero was here, everyone was worried.
03:18Erling arrived.
03:21Fernandinho, Rodri arrived.
03:22It's just about this.
03:24When they leave, you need to be good and recruit the next one.
03:28But they are all similar.
03:30David, Kevin, Fernandinho, Rodri, Aguero, Erling.
03:35There is one more that now I forgot, but last night I was thinking about that.
03:38It's just, it's normal.
03:39It's a change.
03:40It's a change.
03:41It's not a problem.
03:42It's just go again and try to do the right things.
03:45As a manager, is it your policy that if a player, no matter how good,
03:50decides that he wants to leave, you can't stand in the right?
03:54Absolutely.
03:55Because if he's not happy, he's not going to perform in the right way.
04:04How have the players reacted to losing to Arsenal?
04:10The reaction was good in terms of, it was good and normal.
04:16Because it's normal that you are upset.
04:21Straight after the game, we were all upset.
04:24Again, we wanted to win, we didn't win, so it's a normal reaction.
04:26But since, I think, Tuesday, that we started the week
04:30and we started to prepare the Bournemouth game,
04:32you have to switch off one thing and try to be focused just on the next one.
04:40So it was two days where we were not happy.
04:43Now the focus has to be Bournemouth.
04:46And how have you found working with the players?
04:49Because obviously they're so used to Pep Guardiola,
04:52but they must be quite motivated, I guess,
04:54to try and impress you and your staff as the new people in charge.
04:58Yeah, they are working very good.
05:00They are working very good.
05:01I told you already many times in the press conference
05:03that since day one,
05:05the attitude they behave has been very good.
05:09For them also, it's not easy to think that,
05:10as you said, when you work with the same person
05:14every day, you know,
05:16and then change,
05:19it's change everything.
05:21I'm an actor
05:22and I work with the same director
05:24and I make movies for 10 years.
05:27Suddenly the director changes.
05:28Me as an actor,
05:29I'm still thinking in the same way
05:32I was with the previous director,
05:34but now the director is new,
05:35so I need to adapt.
05:36It's not easy.
05:37That's why I'm saying that it's a contest.
05:39It's not an excuse,
05:40but it requires a little bit of time,
05:41but we need to compete as soon as possible.
05:44And you mentioned sort of competing in four competitions.
05:48How many players do you like to work with in your squad?
05:52I think we have three, four academy players
05:56that are going to stay with us
05:57because they impressed me in pre-season.
05:59That is Caden, Samba and Ryan McEdo.
06:02They are going to be with us.
06:04And then we need, for me personally,
06:06we need 21, 22 players,
06:08around 20 players
06:09plus these three young,
06:12full of energy.
06:13We are happy.
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