Jürgen, first of all, after the problems Manchester City had
on their approach to Anfield,
what did you make of the team bus on their way home
stopping to help a Liverpool fan who'd been injured
at pretty much the same spot where they'd had trouble before the game?
A perfect example for how it should be.
You can't take things like that for granted, but I have to say first of all,
again, apologies for what happened before the game.
It's so strange, you go with your own bus through the crowd and...
..it feels fantastic, it's great, it's support, it's passion and all of that,
and then you come in our garage in the stadium, and the first thing I heard,
they smashed something on the bus of Man City.
And it kills everything in that moment, you cannot be happy about that anymore,
you don't feel it anymore.
Another good example for that, you give people the opportunity to do something good
and because of a few idiots it will maybe never happen again.
So that's how it is, and it changed everything.
And Man City did what they did,
and their medical staff did what they did after the game.
My English is limited in this part obviously, I don't have the right words for that,
but it's an outstanding gesture, an outstanding thing to do.
And it leaves us even more in a situation where you think...
It was all strange.
The atmosphere during the game was one of the best I have experienced,
but these things around change my view, it's not OK,
it's not like it should have been, and so...
Yeah, nothing else to say about this.
After the game, we spoke about the injury to Mo Salah,
has he been receiving treatment in some kind of oxygen chamber to speed up recovery,
and just how serious is that injury for him?
First of all I don't think that it makes sense to start talking here
about what we do with the boys in rehab,
it would maybe be another place where we have to talk about that.
But of course you can imagine that we tried everything to make him available.
And still 24 hours to go. Or 23 hours to go, until we start,
so let's see what happens.
You, yourself, are unbeaten in the Merseyside derby,
is that another indication of the importance
that you put on these kinds of occasions.
It's a sign of the quality of my team and the character of the boys
and that we were always spot-on in these games.
None of them were easy, especially in the preparation, it's always difficult,
you wish you could prepare a game like this with one week of training, stuff like that,
because the importance of football is all in the people's minds,
it's not that there is something really important, football is only what we make of it,
and so the derby is the most important game for all the people,
so that's how we have to take it.
We do the job, and the people have the dreams and expectations,
and ambitions - we have them as well, in all the games,
but in this very special game we have to show up and nobody cares how difficult it is
for one or the other side. You have to deliver, and we know that.
And that's what we want to try.
How difficult a job do you have now in terms of your team selection,
given the injury problems you may or may not have going into it as well,
and also trying to balance this game and the next game,
knowing four wins is enough to get that top four finish in the Premier League?
How tough is this decision going to be in terms of your team selection?
Not too much, because of...
..rotation or whatever, we already have a difficult situation, everybody knows that.
If we lose a centre-half out of the blue, if we lose a centre-mid in the same week,
another full-back/centre-half in the international break,
and then another centre-mid around the international break, so it's not nothing.
It's not really cool, and so we still have the same number of games
we would have had with them, so of course we have to consider pretty much everything,
but at the end we need to have a line-up
which gives us the opportunity to win the game,
and that's what we will try.
And in terms of that opportunity, Danny Ings edging back to full fitness and almost there,
he's never started under your reign here, what is his opportunity looking like?
I'm sorry for that, but it's a good moment.
Thank God Danny is here, and in good shape, so I would say,
I would not guarantee it, but it doesn't look too bad that he could start tomorrow.
That's great for him, isn't it?
Great for me as well.
Just in terms of the injuries then, a quick look, is that OK?
It's OK, I have not too much to say about it, two reasons -
I don't want to give any information away, that's the first one,
and the other is that we want to wait a little bit, that's all.
We have a few hours to go until we go to the hotel,
we have a few more hours until the ref starts the game, so...
..you will see who is available and who is not available when you see the line-up tomorrow.
Because it's not about rotation or something like that,
we need to find solutions, how it always is,
but, yeah, don't want to give too much information away.
Jürgen, Alex spoke after the game to some of the reporters on Wednesday night
saying how you shouted at him and pushed him all the way
and now he's reaping all the benefits of that. Can you give us a little insight?
Because the last four months he's just progressed so much.
Again, that's all because of his potential and quality, I think really...
We had a lot of talks, and Ox loved Arsene Wenger, really,
they were working together for six years or whatever,
and he never blamed Arsene Wenger for not improving enough or whatever,
sometimes it's only about changing the circumstances.
The atmosphere?
Everything, so being in a different place, sometimes it can be better,
only if you are aware of your problems. He always took it by himself,
he thought, "OK, I could have done more",
so we had to change something, but he was aware of that,
he was not coming here and saying, "Make the best of me, use me in the best way."
He was, from the first day, ready for hard work, that's the most important thing,
and so because of these new things he experienced...
Of course it's a different style of football,
it's not more Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain football,
it's only different, and that gives you then the opportunity to do a few things
not like you are used to, you have to do them in a new way.
And that obviously helped him, and that's what we were hoping for
when he came here, that he could make the next step with us,
but it was never because of Arsenal, never because of us,
it was always only because some things didn't work out that well anymore.
It was never bad, only because Ox was an outstanding talent as a kid,
but it was not exactly what we would have imagined,
and he is an outstanding talent still, and, yes, he still has a lot of things to improve,
no problem with that, but that's it.
In what way can he improve then?
Everything. In pretty much everything.
We cannot make him quicker - we don't have to.
We cannot really work on his technical ability, he is on the highest level already,
and now using them in the right moment, the right spaces,
the right situations, making the best decisions you can make,
that's where all players can improve and that's where can improve as well of course.
You showed your willingness the other night to use youth,
or to at least put youth in the bench, in Conor Masterson,
is there the chance we could see more youth in the squad this weekend?
And could you talk about the confidence you have
in dipping into that if and when you need it?
Look, I said that plenty of times, for young players it's not about getting the opportunity,
it's about being ready for the opportunity.
And Conor Masterson played U18 last year,
now it's his first year with the U23s, still a very young lad,
so it's a completely different experience.
They are around, but because we all gave the next generation on loan to different clubs,
like Ryan Kent, Harry Wilson, Ovie, Ojo...
..Marko. But, yeah, all these boys are at different clubs now, that's how it is.
And you use the next generation, and they are there,
they are really talented boys and I'm always ready for using them.
But in the right games, in the right moment, so we will see when that will happen.
And just on Everton, what have you made of their season?
I have nothing to make about their season, it's not my job,
it's only that I know for this weekend they will be motivated on the highest level.
They have a very good home record. If they struggle - I don't know if they see it like that -
it was a little bit more away, but now they won at Stoke,
and since then I think they won the last two in a row,
I'm not 100 per cent sure.
Away game and a home game.
Ah - there was Man City there.
But that's a different game obviously.
So that's it, they are a really good team I think
and now Bolasie is back, Walcott, new signing,
Tosun in a good moment,
so they have pretty much everyone together, apart from Sigurdsson I think is still injured.
But that's a good football team, very experienced in defence, all that stuff,
I think that each Evertonian thinks at Goodison
there must be a few extra per cent of desire and stuff like that,
so we need to be ready for that, 100 per cent, but I hope at the end it's still a football game.
I think in the last few years it was always a little bit like that,
there was at least one very harsh challenge, overly harsh challenge.
I think in all the derbies I played so far one always thought, "I have to do it overly hard."
I hope we can go through that team without that, because we all have our targets
and we all need the players for that, but...
being ready for hard challenges? 100 per cent.
That's the derby, so we need to be on fire again, and then we have a good chance there.
Jürgen, I know you said there's still 23 hours to go, but with it being the derby,
how cautious would you have to be with Mo in terms of his consideration for tomorrow?
If it wasn't the derby, or what?
No, because it IS the derby and it is such a big game.
I cannot make Mo available because it's the derby, I would never do it,
that's not possible, you cannot push a player through a game only because...
I don't even think any of our supporters wanted to do that.
If he is a doubt, he will not be involved, that's how it is.
That's how it is with all of them.
If they are not 100 per cent fit they cannot be involved,
but I would not rest a player with absolutely no problem,
because that's our situation, we play, we are used to playing every days,
that's not the problem. It's nothing to do with Mo or any other player.
It would always be the same decision.
You're available, you're involved. You're not available, you're not involved.
So your thinking isn't...
I know it usually isn't, but it isn't skewed by the fact you've got City on Tuesday?
You cannot actually do it like this,
because you have no clue, anything can happen overnight,
a player can get ill or something.
The only way to really work in this job is to be focused always on the next game.
And that's Everton.
And after the game, you have to see what you can do with that.
I said it before, the next game is never the reason for rotation, it's always the last game.
So if I think after the last game we have to do this or that, then we will do it.
But it's never anything to do with the next game.