You are the reigning Premier League champions and you've spent big on Jack Grealish.
But Manchester United and Chelsea have both spent big as well.
Liverpool have some big players coming back.
I wonder how you see it.
Do you think this could be one of the most competitive
races for the Premier League title, that you've known?
Good morning to everyone. Every season since I arrived 5 years ago?
I had the feeling that every season is tougher
is stronger, better teams.
Every season when you begin is a new challenge.
We celebrate our title.
Now it's in our memories and we start again.
I need to ask you about Harry Kane.
How hopeful are you that he might be a Manchester City player before next month?
I answered this question in the previous press conference.
Are you still keen to sign him?
I answered this question at my previous press conferences
He is a player from Tottenham Hotspur, so I'm not going to talk about.
So I made an exception the last time that usually I don't talk about
transfers because it's not my business and, that's all.
Hiya Pep. Welcome back to the Premier League.
Of course.
Can I start with asking you a random one about flying geese in the documentary
on City TV this week about the final few days of the season
It explained how you became fascinated with geese and
how they worked as a team and fly together.
Yeah, It's a good image to express what life should be.
So not all the time.
One person has the lead in everything.
So we can change.
And sometimes one is leading, and after behind.
This is not an individual sport.
and always I approach the way we live in the season.
The way we live everyday, the way we live on the pitch
Everyone is so important all the time and is necessary .
It's beyond one individual person, of course, the club's organisation and the team.
I know you're not going to necessarily speak about transfers directly,
but do you believe you can go through another season again
without a recognised number Nine. Large parts of last season without
Sergio Aguero, can you do it again this year?
Well, I would say we play with recognised strikers
with Sergio Aguero and Gabriel..
Unfortunately, Sergio was injured more than one year.
He played a few games.
You knew the injury situations because always when
Sergio was fit, he was a very important of the team.
I recognised that for myself.
Even though his family don't believe in that.
Unfortunately, he was injured, and but it was that a proper
striker and Gabriel is a proper strike it again.
And sometimes we play with a different, you know, I would say approach,
but the intention is the same to try to control the game and score
as much goals as possible, with or without the striker.
This is what happened since we arrived, and we continue this way.
How much improvement will Jack Grealish have made for the fact that he's
had a full weeks training and he had that game at Wembley last weekend?
Every player needs time to get to his best.
Yesterday, was the first day when we were all together.
Except Philip, sorry Phil.
Because he's injured. But he was in the in the locker room with us.
So it's the first day we work together.
And in two days we start the Premier League.
Tomorrow the Premier League starts officially, and our game on Sunday.
We need time, like it was last season and the previous season.
And every pre-season is like this.
So we decide some players come back later than usual.
because I think they need rest mentally and physically
after the tough tough season, the previous one.
But the way they behave so far, is exceptional as always
and I'm pretty sure, hopefully sooner than later
I'm pretty sure we're going to get the best condition.
How is Kevin de Bruyner, Please?
Do you have an indication of how long he is going to be unavailable for?
It's getting better every day.
It's getting better, but we are still waiting
what's going to happen the next the next days because he cannot
do the full full training session, just partial.
Some with us, some alone.
So we will see what happened the next days.
And of the other England internationals that weren't available to you last week.
Raheem, Kyle and John.
How are they? Since coming back to training.
They came back really well.
The sun and rest.
They produce a good effect to them, so they can be really good.
I would say, as always,
Just to follow up on that?
What sort of condition are those players in that
only returned to training on Monday?
Can any of them feature on Sunday?
Everyone is is ready, so important when they come back, they
come back happy with an energy and then the right energy.
They need a little bit time after four weeks off and two training sessions.
So we need more time, But it's what it is.
So Premier League now, and we're going to travel to London to get a good result.
You just mentioned Gabriel.
Do you think this season he could step up and
be even more important for Manchester City?
The other day you mentioned that the mentality is really important
for the players, especially in the beginning of the season.
Do you think his mind is in the right place now at city.
Always it was in the right place.
Gabriel is an incredible important player with us.
Can play as Striker, can play wider.
A little more lateral position.
So Gabriel is an exceptional player.
So it's not about that.
It was an incredible key role.
He had an incredible key role in these many years of
a huge success that we had in every season.
Has the leadership group been voted on yet? The five players?
No, not yet.
When the transfer window finishes, it is going to happen.
Can I ask you, we didn't get a chance to ask you last week.
But how was the summer?
And how did you reflect on how the season ended with the Champions League?
It was.
Unbelievable.
So it was great was an exceptional season after being disappointed, of course,
to lose the final for one or two days, and after that, when you are
more calm with your family, you say 'wow, how good it was'.
So, in many, many things and how few injuries we had
we had to get everywhere was commitment.
Always. I believe when you have very few injuries because you have
an incredible medical department, Physios and so on.
But especially, players don't want to get injured and they want to be part of that.
And they were.
It was an exceptional season, one of the best I've lived in my life by far.
We won two titles, we arrive in the final of the Champions League
in the semi finals of the FA Cup. Yeah, it was really good in many terms.
In many, many reasons.
Yes, I congratulated him for the first time.
It will be in our memories forever