Hi Pep,
Have you had any clarity on the Brazilian players that you've
got and whether they will go with the national team?
They've been called up and whether they'll have to quarantine when they get back?
Michael, not not yet.
I don't have the real answer.
Hopefully.
So hopefully they can go to the national teams and
hopefully they come back and play with us.
This is a common sense will happen. For that.
we need the Premier League, the governments from here,
Brazil, Argentina, whatever, uh, to solve this problem, to avoid what
happened so we won't leave our players go to national team.
The players want to go there, so but sometimes when
they come back, they have to play with us.
So otherwise, I don't know what is the solution.
So hopefully that's why they are there.
So we are there when the referees said okay, you start the game.
But we are there to solve this conflict that still right now.
Right now, I don't know what is the situation.
Hi Pep
First of all you can hear me, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Good afternoon to you, sir.
Just with regard to, um you goal scorers having 13 or 14.
What do you do if this dries up?
Because you say and it's true, you don't have a, you know, a number
nine, who can smell the chances. It is a bit of a gamble.
You have a Plan B?
What?
How could you solve this?
It will be the Plan B by two strikers for 250 millions.
We can not do it.
We have to play better.
Play better,
arrive more people in the box.
So this one secret in football, the biggest strikers in the world,
scores goals because they are in front of the ball.
So there are no secrets.
So after once we are there, you have to be the quality to put it in the net.
You know that.
But it's impossible to score goals if you're not close to the box.
It's question of mathematics, for sure.
Physical.
Yeah.
Um, and that's what you have to do.
So make the process.
When we arrived there
try to finish in front of the goal. This is what you have to try to do.
Hello Pep,
Um, just on that same theme, it's that you've played really well in Paris.
You did everything apart from score.
Does that ever concern you that you're not scoring or you won't worry until the time
comes when you're not actually creating the chances in the first place?
What would I want to provide to the teams?
Created chances.
Make the process defensively offensively, to be there
as much as them and create a chances. And after that.
the moment.
Sometimes you arrive there
you don't realise that you scored 3, 4 or five goals.
They said Wow, we scored three or five goals when we were not scoring the even.
Even the top top strikers
they have moment that they don't score goals so sometimes
would you have to do is play better.
We are in a high high level, the way we play,
But still we played better, Better, better
and you hear a lot about before the biggest of games.
You hear of players who get really nervous before them.
What about what about managers?
What are you like before the games against their biggest rivals?
You nervous, excited or you just happy for them to worry about City
Can you ever actually enjoy these games when they're going on?
Absolutely.
And all these kind of feelings has to be there. The excitement and nervous.
The pressure, the the emotions.
Yeah.
If you don't have that feelings in important games like it was the previous
ones or will be this one is because this business is not for you.
Some I will sleep
It may be better the day before and no sleep better when a good when
went after the result was not good or the performance was not good.
This is why you have to live his life.
If it doesn't matter
you go there like you were to the, you know, the restaurant with friends
because it's not for you.
Do you get as nervous as a manager as you did as a player?
I still have it, of course before the game.
And certain things going to happen if the plan was will be good.
Yeah, otherwise
if you don't feel that you are not for the business, you have to feel it.
Hi, Pep.
I just wanted to ask about again.
Just looking at Anfield.
Um, and going there in your previous visits, there's been a couple of occasions
where you've come under a lot of pressure in a short space of time, and
two or three goals have been conceded in one in one spell.
And then when you look at the victory there last season,
three of City's goals came in a short spell as well.
In these sorts of games, how how do you deal with those those moments of pressure?
Do you have a plan to to kind of cope with when you
do come under immense pressure in these Games?
No, because I never know.
I don't know who is going to score in a few minutes and if you
will spell of time like you say, so I don't I don't know.
Except the first season, like we played in there like we lost 1-0
when Wijnaldum, the game was not good, that we didn't play.
The rest we were except, I would say really good
even losing 3-0 Champions League
I know perfectly the way we played.
It's difficult to score that they will play the second one and many games.
We show incredible personality playing there, so I'm not concerned about about that.
Even sometimes, but it's not possible because the opponent
is good, so we know each other quite well.
I know it was going to do.
I think he knows we're going to do because you know, the first
time a away fixture away now feels over the toughest one.
So we know it and they are.
They are many.
Otherwise we have not been like us many years in the last years,
especially in the Premier League being out there.
So the last 2, 3 or four years,
City, Liverpool, Liverpool, City, we were there.
So all the time and that is the thing.
The biggest compliments we can get as a club I said many times.
So this is the best so and we want to try to still continue to be there.
Going highs and lows, lows in seasons always happened.
And then, yeah, we are going to, you know, to prepare today and tomorrow to face
this nice game and after international break for staff and backroom staff,
unfortunately not for the for the players and
come back stronger for the October month.
Hi, Pep!
Liverpool is sort of one of the few teams that can compare with
you the last few years in terms of their attacking play and the
sheer number of goals that create a number of goals
they score.
I just wondered what sort of problems they present as
an attacking force for you to defend against.
And also, if you could talk a little bit about Mo Salah
who has obviously been kind of central to that
Liverpool attacking system for a few years now.
Well, they don't play.
They, it's a team that loves to make the attacking space, and they, yeah, a little bit.
Salah play wider sometimes, but he liked these spaces from Alexander
Arnold and from Robertson, and they attack a space.
They they create a lot of gaps because their movements in behind and they are wider
from from the fullbacks and after they create a lot of spaces in the middle.
So with high intensity in all senses, Uh, yeah, typical things from
Jurgen, from the, from the school from from Red Bull in that term.
So we have fantastic teams in in that.
And, I said, many times, these type of teams, there are many
years like us doing good things, staying all the time.
They are difficult to beat and playing, you know,
winning a lot of games because they are good.
No, no, no, not try to look for many, many secrets, you know?
So it's because they are good.
They won one Champions League.
They wont one Premier League.
So and so just because in all the time they are playing
competing, it doesn't matter what happened.
It doesn't matter competition.
You know what I said so admire from Jurgen for that it doesn't matter what happened.
They tried to do the game.
They tried to do whatever happened.
And and he knows they know that we are the same.
So it doesn't matter what happened.
We go with the mistakes with the weak points.
But it doesn't matter.
So we are who we are as a team Man City.
They are who are a team.
We're going to go in this way.
So it's going good, great, going bad, improve.
I don't know another way to do it.
And the last years it works! We're going to try to do it again.
Hi Pep, Rodri's performance last week against Chelsea was highlighted as being crucial to the to the victory at Stamford Bridge.
Um, there's all sorts of comparisons being made with the likes of Busquets.
And do you think he's at that level
At the moment?
I'm just wondering how you would evaluate his progress?
Yeah, you know, sometimes the players would come in one place and they
are in the beginning to start well and after their higher lows.
And and sometimes when a player like him, he's so young, 22, 23 years old is because
Is he improving because he's except okay, he has the, you know the
the willingness to say I can do better, listen and and and not tell
him you have to do it because I'm saying you have to do it.
Try to understand why it's better to this than do that.
We are the spacers and defensively, offensively, and when he has the willingness to
improve to listen and said, Yeah, I can do it like some periods in that period.
Maybe it was not able to do it now is able to do it.
The result that there I think, even his margin to improve is
it's absolutely higher and all the time depend on them, on the players, especially
with Rodri and of course I'm completely with you.
So the last games he played was magnificent in terms of presence,
but with the ball as well, not just to be there for keeping
a holding midfielder like, just defend, defend.
It is so important in our process.
But I still had the feeling that he can improve.
Still, he can make us play even better and and we are here to help him.
He's able to to accept the challenge.
He would become an exceptional holding midfielder all his career.
Can I ask you just a further question?
A couple of years ago, you had a nasty experience.
when you're on the bus going to Anfield, would you hope they sorted all that out
now?
Hopefully I wish is not going to happen
never ever again.
Hopefully.
How bad was it for you?
You cannot imagine.
But I'm pretty sure the Liverpool police and the Liverpool people,
uh understood the situation is going to happen happen again