Guardiola pre FA Cup trip to Spurs
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00:00 Good afternoon, guys, hope you're well, same process as ever,
00:05 matches on either side, we'll set an embargo partway through for 10.30 this evening.
00:09 Hi Pep, hope you're OK.
00:17 Could you just update us first on Calvin Phillips,
00:22 because we're led to believe that the agreement is there for him to go to West Ham on loan for the rest of the season?
00:28 The club still hasn't done it, but he travelled yesterday to make a medical test,
00:34 but it's not completely done, but apparently he's going to be on loan for six months,
00:43 and hopefully he can play the minutes he deserves and I can give them to him.
00:48 It's just not happened for him here, has it?
00:51 It's never appeared as though he could get a regular place in your side.
00:56 That's what it is, I wish him, I've said it many times, an exceptional human being.
01:01 Even a football player, why not be in an international team from the UK?
01:08 Hopefully he can prove what he really is.
01:13 Just on your team selection, it's a couple of weeks since you last played, is Erling Haaland going to be available?
01:21 He's on the verge to come back, tomorrow he's not ready but he's close.
01:27 Training Cam was good, he trained some sessions, and the last two days he trained,
01:34 but he's not perfect and we wait a little bit more.
01:38 Hi Pep, just following on from Arnott and the rest of the team,
01:42 can you update on some of the other players who have not been with you lately?
01:45 Mano Kanji is out and Johnny's come back, he will be with the team selection, but he's come back.
01:52 And Ederson, is he OK now?
01:55 He's OK, yeah.
01:56 And also the announcement earlier today about the signing of Claudio Echeverry,
02:00 can you comment on that at all, please?
02:03 Yeah, the club Alex informed me a few minutes ago that he's done,
02:08 so congratulations to be part of our club.
02:13 Hi Pep, earlier this year you joked about the next target being scoring away against Spurs,
02:21 do you understand why the record is so poor there?
02:26 Because it's like six games, six defeats and no goals scored, different managers?
02:30 Yeah, that's the reality, how tough it is for us.
02:34 Of course it's a final, it's a knock at the stage,
02:37 and to go through you have to score goals, otherwise it would not be possible to go through with a team that scores goals.
02:44 But always it's a new opportunity to break it,
02:48 the feeling is most of the times we were exceptional,
02:53 that's not the right word, because we could not win, but we played really good.
02:57 So you see how we played, the stats, I don't really imagine the stats,
03:02 but the way we behaved and the way we played was good,
03:04 but the reality is that, no goals, six defeats,
03:07 so they are much better than us, we had a minute.
03:12 Does it look like a more dangerous tournament now with Ange?
03:17 Well I would say, if we were not able to win any game, so we have been dangerous all the time.
03:23 But the way they play is quite a little bit different than in the past.
03:29 Hi Pep, can I get your reaction to Omar Barrada leaving to join Manchester United?
03:34 How did you find out about it? How much of a big loss is this for City?
03:38 And did you try and convince him otherwise?
03:40 Well all I can say personally, I wish him all the best and good luck.
03:44 He changed the street, not the city, so he has been an important person for the organisation,
03:54 the right hand from Ferran, but he decided for himself to leave and the club will move forward.
04:03 So the club will find the right way, the right person to move forward and do what he has done.
04:11 Personally I wish him all the best.
04:13 Is there any sense of shock that Man Utd made a move like this,
04:17 and is there any sense of worry that there might be more of a force to be reckoned with now with Ineos on board?
04:23 I don't know the ideas from Man Utd.
04:26 We try to keep the best persons and people here, but this kind of happens.
04:31 When I arrived here eight years ago, especially in this building,
04:38 I came not quite often, just in the press conference.
04:42 Now I come now and I don't recognise one face.
04:45 Honestly.
04:46 People change a lot, move to other jobs, and people knew he was coming.
04:53 I think the club was so happy with Omar, but he decided for himself to leave.
05:02 The same. All the best.
05:04 Alexander Seferin has spoken about the club's Premier League charges for the first time.
05:13 Were you upset with what he had to say, specifically the word line about UEFA knowing they were right about the previous charges?
05:20 As a lawyer that he is, the president of UEFA, he should wait.
05:25 Wait. And after, do whatever he wants.
05:29 So it was the same thing. He has to sentence about UEFA, he has to respect it.
05:34 And, yes, he has to wait.
05:38 I have a lot of job to do in UEFA, to be involved in the cases that the lawyers should respect the procedure.
05:45 And after, he knows we have the right to defend ourselves.
05:51 So...
05:53 Only I can say.
05:55 Can I ask you another one on Calvin Phillips as well?
05:58 He was a really popular player here, you obviously have a lot of affection for him.
06:03 When you look back at his time, is there any personal frustration? Do you think you could have done something slightly differently to make it work here?
06:10 No, of course.
06:12 If I give him 10, 15 games in a row, he will play good. I didn't give him to me.
06:16 I feel so responsible for that.
06:18 But at the same time, I'm honest with me. I have a disposal of players, a squad, and I have to decide what we are looking for.
06:27 For different things. Only I can say how grateful I am for his behavior.
06:33 On and off the pitch, in many, many situations.
06:36 Hopefully he can find the minutes to come back and next season we'll see what happens.
06:44 Finally, finally, he goes to West Ham.
06:47 There's no one person that we don't want.
06:50 We wish him all the best in his short time, four or five months in London.
06:55 Given he was very much a part of the first team squad, he came in for a lot of money, are there any plans to bring in any first team players before the deadline?
07:03 I don't think so.
07:05 I don't think so.
07:07 Okay, so the Embargo of Centres this evening.