Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola wont discuss Chelsea spending as Grealish injury results delayed
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00:00 Hi Pep, in what ways did Raheem help your success here?
00:08 Was it just on the pitch or were there other factors around the squad as well?
00:12 What part did he play in the trophies here?
00:16 Unbelievable.
00:18 When he was there, especially the first seasons, we could not think about what we achieved without him.
00:26 He was an incredibly important player for us, he really won.
00:32 Did you see a lot of improvement from when he signed?
00:39 He has to talk about that. His contribution was massive, really important.
00:44 His speed, his continuing movements, he was a really important player.
00:52 Pep, just a quick one about Erling, there was a story in Norway that he's had a bereavement,
00:56 a family bereavement, his grandma. Is he having to go home at all?
01:00 He's here.
01:02 Next week will he maybe go?
01:04 I don't know, I don't have info.
01:07 But he's OK, he was obviously all right to play on Wednesday.
01:10 Of course he's sad, but he played really well in Copenhagen.
01:21 Gary Neville said that he didn't watch your team on Tuesday because he felt bored,
01:28 and is asking whether you're boring and unwatchable because you're so good.
01:33 Is it frustrating that you're trying your best to be so good?
01:38 No, thank you for the compliment, what can I say?
01:41 It's fine, what can I say?
01:48 Everything is so difficult in football, so difficult.
01:51 You have to do many things to try to win games, and games during many, many years.
01:55 What this group of players have done for many years, and this season as well, is admirable.
02:01 It's heads off to my players.
02:05 It's just unbelievable how consistent and the way they take seriously our opponents,
02:13 how good they are, and had the same opinion before I played Copenhagen.
02:18 It's really incredibly difficult to attack, really one.
02:22 If you are not perfect in many, many things, or really, really good in many, many aspects of the game,
02:27 we cannot achieve what we didn't achieve the last two years.
02:31 We still have a game to play here, and we take it seriously.
02:34 This is all I can say to my players.
02:38 Hopefully we can continue in that way.
02:41 Do you think you get enough credit for all that work that goes into it?
02:45 Of course you have credit.
02:47 We are admired, so I'm pretty sure of that.
02:50 The people in the world of football know how difficult it is.
02:53 Being six, seven years there and there again, one week, another one,
02:57 and all competitions, and trying.
03:00 I'm going to tell you something in the future you will not forget.
03:04 It looks easy, but it's not.
03:06 You remember that sentence.
03:08 It's easy, but it's not.
03:10 It's not.
03:12 Hi, Pep. Hello.
03:14 Just going back to Jack, it's two days since the game.
03:18 You say you're not too sure beyond tomorrow.
03:20 Is that because you still haven't been able to do the scans you need?
03:23 No, no, no. He's injured, but I don't know.
03:27 I know a scan has a problem, a muscular issue, but I know how big the damage is.
03:34 So, I don't know.
03:36 Sorry, you say you don't know how big the damage is.
03:38 I didn't hear that. Did you say you don't know how big the damage is?
03:40 No, I don't know. I don't know yet.
03:42 But is that normal two days on? Usually you have tests and you can ascertain that.
03:46 No, when we arrived the day after, we could not do it, the doctor said to me,
03:50 because the machine was broken.
03:53 So that's why it was played one more day, it was yesterday.
03:56 But it was my day off, and I was so concerned about Chelsea,
03:59 and I didn't speak with the doctor.
04:01 So I still didn't see him this morning.
04:03 So now when I arrive back from this lovely press conference, I will ask him.
04:06 May I just ask, when he went back on during the game, he went back on, didn't he, Jack?
04:10 Yeah.
04:11 Was that because you needed the numbers at the time just to defend,
04:14 or was that him insisting?
04:16 About what, sorry?
04:17 Why did he go back on, basically?
04:19 Back on?
04:20 Yeah, during the game.
04:22 Oh, yeah, because you want to play.
04:25 At the end, you feel something muscular, if you play, the damage will be bigger.
04:29 And at the end, it's no sense.
04:33 If it's a knock or something like that, you can continue,
04:36 but the muscles have to sprint, have to run, you cannot do it,
04:40 there's no sense to... I know he won it, but we took the right decision.
04:45 Thank you.
04:46 For sure.
04:47 Rob Daffley.
04:49 You said before that one of the biggest reasons for your success here
04:53 is that the club have given you some great players,
04:56 but Chelsea have spent a billion pounds on players,
04:59 and are still tenth in the league.
05:01 Can you possibly show that there's more at play here,
05:04 that the reason behind your success is more than simply giving you good players?
05:08 You understand I want to talk about one second about Chelsea,
05:11 for respect of them.
05:13 I don't know the situation.
05:15 Just going back to Cole Palmer, obviously a very talented player,
05:26 and you gave him some games as well.
05:29 Was it a decision for you to let him go,
05:31 or was it just purely because he wanted game time?
05:34 For young players, we always want to stay, but it's normal.
05:38 After two or three seasons, he wants more minutes than he got last season.
05:42 And I understand completely.
05:46 When a player gets that minute that I didn't give to him,
05:51 for the reasons everybody knows, it's just for the other players.
05:56 But we know the quality that he has,
05:59 and the impact he's shown so far this season is enormous.
06:04 It's not just goals, it's the quality, and we knew it.
06:08 It's an incredible threat for Chelsea.
06:13 Just going back to what Simon was talking about before,
06:18 do you think that you won't be fully appreciated, this team,
06:23 until it's all finished?
06:26 I don't think so. I think the opponent will respect us.
06:30 I always say the same.
06:36 Sometimes people say it's not enough, but I know how difficult it is.
06:41 I know it from my experience as a football player,
06:43 when I was manager in the other clubs and here.
06:46 So show that consistency.
06:48 After a win at the Tribal, we're still there.
06:52 And see how we fought for each other,
06:55 and our backwards, and our many things.
06:59 1-1-2 and continue before the 1-3,
07:03 we had two or three chances to score 1-3.
07:05 The mentality to have to go and go and go.
07:08 And at the end, it depends on us.
07:12 How satisfied we are, that is what belongs to us.
07:15 If the people don't appreciate it, it doesn't matter.
07:19 It's not a big problem. I think they appreciate it, honestly.
07:22 World football, I think they know how difficult it is.
07:25 But still, we are here, we want to continue.
07:27 But the important thing is to feel that,
07:29 still, we are for ourselves.
07:33 It's necessary to compliment the outside,
07:36 or regret for the outside, to be happy or not.
07:38 I think we are happy with what we have done these years,
07:42 and still we are doing it.
07:44 Knowing that it will be extremely difficult.
07:48 But we will start tomorrow.
07:51 Hi Pep, going back to Palma.
07:56 Obviously it's difficult for kids in this club
08:00 with such a high-quality first team
08:02 to come and have minutes, etc.
08:05 Do cases like Palma and Sancho show how patient
08:10 Phil Foden was to be on the stage he is now?
08:14 No, it's not about that.
08:17 Phil Foden has more minutes than Colpama and Diego Sancho.
08:21 If Colpama would have the minutes from my gift to Phil from the beginning,
08:26 Colpama would be here.
08:28 But I didn't give it to him, it's my responsibility.
08:31 Why? It was Bernardo, it was Real, it was Phil.
08:35 It was in that moment I chose for the other one.
08:37 It's a rival moment, like, after one season is nice,
08:40 second season, but the third season,
08:42 "Oh guys, I want to play, I don't want to sit on the bench."
08:44 It is normal.
08:46 We understand as a club, he got a good offer,
08:49 an incredible top club at Chelsea.
08:51 I'm really happy for him.
08:54 In all the clubs this kind of thing happens.
08:58 But it's not because one situation is different than the other one.
09:02 Thank you guys.
09:05 Thank you.