Welcome back. Its Will Perry and Darren bent Saturday for
Kelly and righty today. We're going to focus on Manchester
City. Now following their 3-0 win at Wolves at the weekend
and they're looking pretty good. Been C on. They are
looking great, little sat down with Pep Guardiola to speak
about tactics, the World Cup and earning Harland
You will. You look fit enough to play, man? How you feel?
Yeah, I'm good. Thank you.
Hello. Hello Peppers.
As important as winning,
you have to enjoy your team, you love watching your team colors
and The Spectator like yeah,
I wanna I wanna I want to know what I'm saying,
for me, they're the best football inside in the world.
Am I mean every international team as well?
In England,
we haven't seen footballer. Not not Is Pinky. So my y computer
Garner coming from you.
Steady themselves.
Take his spot to brilliant finish.
Even the full-backs inside in that, in the Midfield, Central
Area is that to free up the Midfield players. What? I like
the most as a manager who, when we have the bullet, we can buy
them.
And when the distances between the players are shorter. Yeah,
you have more chance to pass the ball and these are main
reason why, how dare to make calls to holding inferior to
the central Defenders.
And also, I believe, when we are
with the ball, show passes and clover, when you lose our
bowling, you are closer over.
You can control press, you can do it
the transitional, more difficult for the opponent. You
are closer to
Allah,
he is a one-man, wrecking ball swinging through Premier League
defenses.
Did you think it was settle this quickly? I was he always
has four minutes for me as interview so I said, oh would
be the first journalist actual play isn't going to ask me
about Holland.
Is
his overwhelming. I would say. It takes every boat
the most impressive.
How Grand it is
that I thought, okay, that guy come here, it was completely
the opposite of
fast. And I would like to say something to speak really,
really well about the team that you have the personality. So
all the highlights is from
formerly right now since arrived. One does happen. If
you're not grounded
or you have
a players like his ego is. Yeah. Be honest. Pectin they
will not be happy.
What early has doing. Yeah,
apple example, Kenny
Kenny's Delight to have
early with him but not, I can say here, Kevin, I can say,
I don't know. Any other play had been for a long time with
Incredible success with the team.
It's Paris for how good is the the team of the quality of
the guys especially See how
humble and download the area?
The World Cup coming up in between, in the middle of it is
going to be difficult if I was a manager. I wouldn't. I know,
I've heard you say, well, I'd on holiday, and I would say,
I would say, I would say that, and me as a perfectly perfect,
perfect
as a dream, his dream, God or cabbage T 3 months. If you have
dreams that, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you
for your time. Thank you.
Guess we could have just listened to that conversation
for an hour. So how was your trip to the training discrete?
It was so relaxed. It was good and those other things we spoke
about and before we went on air as well as really nice.
Nice, our to sort of spend really with. Yeah, it's great.
He's got some football team, their best in the world best
football team. I think there's will you tell me
an international team even if better than them?
I don't see it. I think there are just the way they play.
They dominate the ball every single angle, they come from.
They've now got a number
That is just almost unplayable. You can't defend against them
specially when he's going to get that service so I don't
really see.
They used to be
vulnerable defensively. Yeah.
Maybe I did ask him in that interview Desi. Think that
Harlan might be the give them the new dimension that they can
go on and win the Champions League now because that's one
thing they haven't done. Yeah.
And it's always good to have goals
and I think there, you can also find a Stern, a tee shot me
down.
Yeah, but it's but that is exactly why we're asking him
because it could be the missing piece, I think you could be and
I think
it was was, was sort of saying that as well but
now it was he's got every single position now, I think
he's really content, his let top players go this year, don't
forget,
you know, Jesus and Sterling and
sin chanko. But look,
they look like the same team if not better.
It's quite incredible when you talk about business as well
with to obviously get into Holland a little bit more, but
even a kin G coming in for D ma because he was out, contracted
Dortmund, Sergio Gomez. He was with
Vinny company and leg last season,
you know, cumulatively, they
combine they've got 26 million pounds worth of place, didn't
pay 66 million for Kure. They do shrewd business. I said that
as a striker earning Harland,
yeah, for every key cities that
he's a freak. I mean,
as glamour saying earlier, when you've got that, like
the service, that they give you that the brain has Bernardo
silver, it's just about getting in the right areas because
there are options there. Now, for these guys that were
necessarily work their last season when they
Get on false-9, you see the burner putting balls in there,
blind great balls,
but no one had that instinct. Now I've got someone who's
going to Feast on fit and even when they don't give him
the ball, he still in them areas. We've seen folder and
only parts of the Season where he probably should square and
he shot. But I've got someone there now that can finish
absolutely everything. Good in the air, can finish
the tappings. The scuffie one. You saw him at the weekend, which
is smash, it against wolves.
He just gives you such a different dimension. And not
only that. Now, Tim's can no longer kind of squeeze on
the pitch because as an option in behind,
and when you've got that type of paces,
All of a sudden as how do you stop them?
Defensively. Are you can still cause them problems
but it's about out scoring match, the city. And with this
guy out front, I just don't see how that's possible. We're
looking at his
stats. Therefore, this is nice. Just Premier League, obviously
scored in the Champions League as well as any
at Seville and against Borussia Dortmund, but 11 Premier League
goals projection, wise is on for what 62 if you look at XG,
well listen, one of the esteemed
sportswriters at the weekend, Oliver whole
basically so that it could be on course for
the 60 that Dixie Dean scored. In the 20s
and it seems ridiculous
but not because he's already smashing up that the record
books. I mean,
if you look at what he said, after one of his early games he
said my target is that 18 that my dad scored. Yeah,
really 18 goals, 47 away from that already. I just think
there are two things to bear in mind with him.
When you look at Real Madrid,
won the Champions League last season,
I had been tomorrow score in the Colts,
getting them out of difficult situations in tight moments.
That's what this boy can do. But the other thing about
Holland is that when you look at France, November pay
and Spain, they had Messi and Ronaldo
it in the early years and in their Prime, we now have one of
the great footballers in World football
in his prime. And, and when I say in his prime is probably
nowhere near it yet, but he is getting better as frightenin.
It. Yeah, even there is Brian yet, but I mean,
He scored more in the present, then andriy shevchenko, Diego,
Forlán, Emmanuel Petit. Yeah, plays. Like a lazy lover quiz
question, right? So
I had classified from from Norway as well. Bury my, he's
not playing with fantastic players. At Norway, he's goal
ratio. There is incredible as well. So when his last 140
games, right? For this goes back to Salzburg to Borussia
Dortmund, Manchester City and Norway,
how many goals as he's called an 140 games
123 144
service, those sorts of strike is now in Lewandowski is almost
one in. If you go back to 400 games that's the level of
Striker, we're talking about isn't how many years?
He has given them. A completely different dimension and
the city Factor players have talked about that already. Look at
Kevin De bruyne every time it's where he where is he
straightway? Ye member dabrander Briner we'll just do
you see the eye contact? Yeah it will make goal after goal
after goal for him as well as the others followed and
Silvers and but the other thing as well that come out of that
I was hoping there was going to be a like a
some sort of box that wasn't going to be but Pepcid he's
got no ego. He said he's just one of the lads he just goes in
there. And just, he's just made himself really endeared himself
to the rest of the squad. So humble,
and I'm like, I can't put across your neck
and bring him down,
delivering the bottom of folks night. Now, we've got to do is
hit an area. I mean, obviously some what you've done would
have loved about with them because you know, full well,
this is where he should be. I hope he's
Without hope you can take it out of it because, you know,
the moment you flash it in there, he's going to be there
there, but he's going to miss some his human. He will miss
some chances by, but your score a lot more. What do you think
of the criticism that you only has a certain amount of touches
doesn't matter if you scoring goals
from a few touches it?
The only reason he doesn't have touches. I'm watching the first
20 minutes against West Ham, he's first game, he's making
loads of runs and he then sort of look around. Thought
the pulldown come? Yeah, I've now got a white,
they recycle it. They go across the pictures, we see. See, you
do so many times, and then he knows he sussed it out within
20 minutes then I know when
now the Brian has on it is got time and space bang. I'll go
and the Bulls given penalty gets up in a way. It was like,
how did he die? He's a,
he's a young kid, still really a people say, he's not good in
the air. He doesn't need to head it when he can get his
leg. Six feet in the entity. That goal that reminded me
for the younger kids. Probably Jet Li maybe for us,
Jackie Chan,
Chuck Norris.
Absolutely fabulous and torsion again, may be able to against
Dortmund lat.
Week. And that's the other
element to his bow. He doesn't have any kind of weakness. I say
very often. He's almost like when you see the sequel of
a movie and you kind of see the supervillain? Only think, how
we going to stop this guy because he's just invincible
and I think as far as he is concerned to have that added
dimension of being, humble means he's never going to get
carried away with yourself and you're going to get somebody
who's only target week to week is to work to get better. And
also come to think of her just come to my mind there.
It's Dad's been in the profession.
It's been a pro himself in knows,
you know he's teaching them and if it does go if you guys get
an engineer so he doesn't. But you know, get over injuries is
one thing as a player. You have to eat. Might struggle. His dad
will be over there. Go look, I went through this blah blah,
blah.
This is what you have to do this and so he's even got that
guidance around them as well. Yeah, I mean like it even Jesse
marsch when you had him at our be Salzburg said that 18 years
old. 19 years old. I used to sit at the back of the bus
reading books on meditation. After a game,
that's not normal for a 19 year old to do.
And I live in Manchester, we saw his all over social media
like couple weeks ago, walks down towards sulfur. Towards
the Salford University have strained, end of town, and he's
on his own and you know,
walking like you've runs. He's not as if he's Incognito. Yeah.
But you know, I love that about them because
what he's, what he's doing. He's just being a young man,
you know, so often I see. And I will say you look at so maybe
an app a and they treated like a rock star and you know,
and so many times, I've covered many footballers at clubs where
when they are that good they get
Treated as though they are from another planet
and that ultimately isn't good for the player
because it puts them into a bubble
where as he quite clearly has his feet on the ground and
lovely. And that's really nice to see
as you can. He looks like he's normalizing things, you know,
keep things normal. You can put two bodyguards and walk down
the same place and everyone will be. Yes, that's
the Persona is given out or you
put a car Dion and put a hat on and go and do it yourself. He
didn't have a hat and Hoodie
pretty easy too. Those these things before, I think our
blocks
that's fantastic. Glad your thoughts on Jack relish
because, you know, Pep Guardiola,
he always does this with players
that are under pressure from the media, and apply a pressure
from opponents. And so on, he will stick by them only and he
stuck by Jack release in the Wolves game and he scored in
the first minute, but let's be completely honest.
He has not been the Jack released that we saw at Aston
Villa, it's completely different role to him. A lot of
money, which wasn't his fault. But what do you make of
the Guerrilla situation is never gonna be the same play. Our
villa
villa needed him to take players on needed him to hold
the ball and get them up the pitch. In this team, it was
a little bit because his English we're focusing on him, but Mara
is went there.
Same thing for less than I had a different job to do for
the team. Mara is took a year to settle in because and he kept
taking him off didn't play him because he wasn't doing what
pet wanted. In that interview there he wants short passing,
he doesn't really want dribble us that beat three or four
players once the ball, keep to be shifted shift shift and
eventually defensively.
You must give him because you're out of position eventually.
Then they'll hit the killer past
or the killer cross,
and I think that's where Jack sort of probably not enjoying
his football. Yeah, it's going to be more successful. He's not
enjoying it and overthinking all that is that is that
an issue? I think he's got a think less. I think he's just got to
play either way, that he's playing,
but then getting that penalty R.
Look at sterling, sterling wasn't a finisher, really until
and he's finishing at main city was within 8 yards of the goal.
You never saw that in any other club,
but It totally got two out of that arrived in the penalty
area, to get his goals and Jack's got to do the same and
it was good to see him. Where did he get his go?
What was it was a similar scenario
and you'll see that more and more. If Jack wants to take it
on board, if you want to learn from the best and play with
the best players in the world, he's got everything, cookies feet.
It just perhaps isn't enjoying himself more because he loves
to take, he loves to be the Maverick doesn't,
he doesn't need to be a Maverick in this thing. Yeah,
I love just to finish on City water going to look forward to
after the
The national Braille talk about the north London Derby and
Manchester Derby boys, as well. Yeah. Manchester night, of
course on the other but much to see right now just look on
plywood and a unbeatable, but
always sometimes this fixture throws up a little bit of
a surprise, but if Majesty United to beat much to see there, get
us going to have to take one effort because I can't see
anything else but a
much to see you in there. That is games that City losing
the Darby and they were you don't expect them to lose.
Absolutely, I think
with the blue hair Bobby form, goes out the window. I think
this is a very different United side to the one. What three, or
four games ago? Go
confidence is coming back. You can see it, feel a little bit
of a pulse in this United side. I think the
the winds that they've had forget about the caliber of
the teams have played against, you can see that the players are
coming in, are his players and you can see that the players
that he's kept in, are responding to what he's trying
to do. I think
this is going to be closer than some people think.