Hear from the managers ahead of week 38, the final week of the 23-24 Premier League season, including both title contenders, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola and Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta and from Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp ahead of his final game in charge
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00:00 What is the best position for the Premier League?
00:08 The fact is that if you ask all the Premier League teams when we start the season what would be the better position in the last game of the season, we are in the best position.
00:21 So that's for sure. One game left, destiny in our hands to win one game, to be champion. Everything would like to be in our position, that's for sure.
00:30 Ourself and our people have to come here to be ready. To be ready for the first minute to support us, to be with us, to be with us, to be with us, to do it together.
00:39 We have to do our job, which is going to be tough because we are in a really good moment.
00:45 So we are going to have to prove again that we can be better than the opponent and win the game.
00:51 And then we have to wish for the best, we have to wish for West Ham to have a really good day and help us to fulfil our dream. That's what we are hoping for.
01:02 Spoiler? No, I'm not enjoying any of that, I'm not bothered with it. It's more about us continuing the thought process I've put in place this season, the mentality side of things.
01:11 We are on a good show of form for ourselves and our own reasons. It's about keeping that mentality going into the final game.
01:18 They are a great side and they have shown that this season, and who knows what could happen next?
01:23 But no, it's more about focusing on us going in and performing.
01:26 We don't have to pretend it's a normal week because it isn't, but looking at the game...
01:33 I said it as well this week already, I'm a very pragmatic person and I very often try to save myself,
01:40 and this is the last game of the season, and after that it's holiday, that's what I've had for the last 24 years, so business as usual.
01:47 Knowing that everything around the game will be completely different.
01:52 Saying goodbye I don't think is ever nice, but saying goodbye without feeling sad or hurt or whatever,
02:00 that would just mean that the time we spent together was not right and not great, and we had a great time.
02:07 So it was always clear that it would be tough.
02:09 It's a typical style of play at Brighton. I admire the way they approach the game.
02:15 It's a real challenge, so we're really looking forward to it.
02:20 But it's up to us to get the right plan, to get the right execution,
02:26 so to prepare the team in the best way we can, and then it's about the players to get the win.
02:31 It's really important for us to finish in the way that we are doing now,
02:36 and I think with the confidence and the way that we were playing in the last few months,
02:44 it's really important for the team, it's really important for the players, for the club, to be close to achieve one of the objectives,
02:52 which was to play in Europe next season.
02:55 I'll try and explain it this way. That's probably the worst experience I've had as a football manager in a game,
03:02 because once I realised that I got it wrong in terms of what the atmosphere was going to be like and what people felt,
03:11 I got a real anxiety within me of, what if we play as well as we can but they beat us 5-0?
03:22 I got in cold sweat thinking about people questioning my integrity and the people I work with.
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