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it feels great uh to be honest now I'm
in one of the best teams in the world
and to be part of this club and to have
this opportunity for me it's great I'm
I'm very happy to be part of the
Manchester City team and I look forward
to to try and do my best to help the
team reach their their goals there's
been a lot of interest in your signature
what was it about City that made you uh
made you choose to come here well first
of all the project you know that's that
City uh over the last few years uh the
team plays to win uh I want to win
titles and as I spoke with with the
people from Manchester City they always
told me that their goal was to win
titles and that's also my goal uh so I'm
here with with all the players the
amazing players that we have the coach
and all the team that is behind us I
think we can do it you mentioned the
coach there how important was uh Pep
Guardiola being in charge here in your
decision to uh to make the move well if
not the best coach in the world is one
of the best so of course uh when you
have the opportunity of being trained by
by Guardiola you you don't you don't say
no uh as we as we all know what he did
in in Barcelona and Bayern munik was
amazing and we all expect also here uh
to some that that he wins titles and
it's great to to to be to be working
with him and to be able to have this
opportunity as I said Portugal have a a
real Rich history of producing number
10's you know
Playmakers um I can think of kind of ruy
Coster and Deco in my lifetime whove
been particularly good what do you think
it is about Portuguese football that
kind of creates that kind of player well
I don't know we have a lot of we have a
lot of
players uh that are offensive players
that over the last few years had a lot
of success uh in
football uh it's true that we have a lot
of offensive midfielders and I think
it's we're we're a little bit similar to
Spain I think we're smaller so we don't
have as many players as them but we're
similar to them because we're not we're
not like the north of Europe where you
have have a lot of tall players and
strong players but we have other things
and for the offensive positions we have
a lot of players I was going to mention
your height you're
5'8 um and a lot of Playmakers do tend
to be tend to be smaller does does um
does being small bring benefits in that
position do you think well I I think
when you're smaller and not as strong as
as the other ones physically uh you have
to develop uh some other things like you
have to think uh faster you have to try
and and be better in other things and in
this kind of positions it's good to to
to have to be smart to try and decide
well to decide fast and as I said when
when you're smaller uh you you have you
have to develop other things and that's
what I what I try to do I mentioned Deco
earlier um we know him really well in
this country from his his time at
Chelsea he's a big admirer of yours and
said in the past that you're a player
who takes risks um there good technical
quality and you could be Portugal's
number 10 for many years uh it must be
great for you to hear comments like that
from somebody with you know the kind of
stature in the game that he's got yes
sure when you when you hear someone like
de talking about you that way it's it's
great he he was he was one of the best
players that that played for for our for
our national team uh as you said him and
they they are two legends and it's great
to to hear him speaking that way about
me so who were your Idols when you were
growing up then well Ru Costa as you
said because I'm a Benfica fan uh and Ru
Costa he he played for benf uh he ended
his career in Benfica it's it's more
more or less my position so it's
it's um your performance here at the
atti had in in February was hugely
impressive and I think a lot of the city
fans went away that night um kind of
thinking you're one of the best young
Playmakers in Europe what are your
memories of that game and were you
pleased with your with your own
performance yes uh we weren't pleased uh
for the score because we we didn't win
that game but it was a great game two
teams that wanted to play football to to
score goals and uh on the end of it I
think both teams did a fantastic game
and to play here in the in the Hadad was
special your work ethic has always been
uh widely praised and it seems like it's
a key facet of your game um do you think
it's important for for modern players
even attacking players to make sure they
work hard off the ball of course
nowadays if you don't work hard even if
you're one of the best you don't succeed
uh it's not only Defenders that have to
defend it's not only attackers that have
to to attack so it's a team and we all
have to do everything
uh you joined Ben fer as an 8-year-old
and made a handful of appearances um for
them um but it was really for their B
Team wasn't it that you you kind of made
your name and and and played a lot how
important was that period for you to
kind of gain that experience of playing
football
regularly well it was it was very
important for me to to go from the under
19 to the to the second division to the
second team and that year when you when
you have this this difference between
playing with kids and playing with with
old people and experienced players it
was great for me to play on the second
division with with the second team of
Benfica and I think it was one of the
most important years for for my career
and in 2013 when you went to the under
19s European championships and Portugal
reached the semi-finals you were
nominated by youa for writers as one of
the top 10 under 19 talents in Europe
that must have been a huge booster
confidence at that time to be kind of um
so critically acclaimed yes of course uh
when you play for for your country it
means that you're one of the best on
your age uh to be selected and to be in
that European Cup and to be elected one
of the best of the tournament was great
as well and when you went to Monaco you
initially went on loan didn't you but uh
they made the agreement permanent quite
quite quickly were you surprised how
well you adapted to to French for
yes a little bit but uh we had a lot of
Portuguese players we had a Portuguese
coach that helped me a lot as well uh so
after six years uh they bought me my my
I I adapted really really fast but also
because I had a lot of
help um and obviously last season was
really really successful for for monacco
scored a lot of goals um won the title
uh semi-finals of the Champions League
uh must be quite difficult difficult
decision for you to to have left a team
like that yes of course uh it's true
that in Monaco this season we did we did
some fantastic things to win a title
against PSG is not easy in France to to
arrive on the semi-finals it's it was it
was
fantastic uh but I think it was it was a
good time to leave uh we were Champions
and uh it was great to be part of of
Monaco I'm I'm really I'm really
grateful for everything but now I'm very
happy to be here and to have this new
this new project in my life and Leonardo
Jam the manager at Monaco he encourages
a real attacking style doesn't he
similar to perhaps what pep guardio will
play here is that important to a player
to to play in a team that that goes
forward well for me yes personally yes
uh I think when you play football when
you win and you play well and you enjoy
it's even better so where you can have
both things uh winning and enjoying
playing football it's great and uh
finally we've got um your Nam sake David
silver who plays for City he's one of uh
one of the greatest players to have ever
played for this club and you you're
quite similar in style are you're
looking forward to uh to training with
him and playing with him of course he's
one of the best players in the
world uh I I look forward to to to learn
with him to to see to see what what he
can teach me to to play with him and to
have this opportunity as I said it's
fantastic uh uh when I was a kid I was
looking at at him and some other players
and now to be able to play with them
it's just great Bernardo thanks for
talking to us and good luck uh with your
Manchester City career