Guardiola on football being ruled by broadcasters scheduling demands
14/09/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
14/09/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
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00:00I didn't watch the first game, I saw the second one, I saw Jack really well in the position
00:15behind the striker, more central position, and Rico playing the left but playing more
00:19inside, that is intelligent play, I think both play good, John also played good minutes
00:24in the second game, very pleased, they came back no injured, fit, and yeah, good.
00:31Would you consider playing Jack as a number 10?
00:34Yeah, he can play, we know it.
00:37And also Rico is on the left, do you think that...
00:40Well, if you need Rico to go up and down for the left and crosses for the left, it's not
00:46good, but you have to play more central position, short passes, attack, more central position,
00:52it's really good.
00:55Kevin didn't seem very happy at the end of the Belgium game, did he give you a chance
01:01to speak to him?
01:02No, I saw him really happy yesterday, in the training these two days, I saw him really,
01:08really well, but I didn't speak about that.
01:12In the last few days, it seems you brought out the fourth kit, inspired by Ron Callum,
01:18what are your thoughts on it?
01:20It was a good design, apart from being a great, unbelievable musician, I think he's a good
01:26designer as well, so the kit is marvellous, it's so beautiful, the colours and everything,
01:33and yeah, it looks like destiny, right?
01:36The moment the US is back, he created this kit for our fans, for ourselves, so yeah,
01:43the destiny was there together.
01:45You were on the picture holding a guitar?
01:48I don't think so.
01:50If you see the picture with the guitar, don't think about it, I was playing.
01:54Not at all.
01:57Sorry, it's a schedule question I'm afraid, but I know you've talked a lot for many years
02:03and rightly, players and managers have just ignored their feelings on it, you don't know
02:10what impact the Club World Cup at the end of the season is going to have on the players,
02:14but is it your view, you haven't been at the top level of the game for so long, the cumulative
02:20effect of all these games in no rest of the season, do you feel like it will reduce the
02:27quality of the top games that we see towards the end of the season in time, are you concerned
02:34that the quality of games could be affected?
02:38I don't know, hopefully not, I don't know about the World Cup, I'm not thinking about
02:43it one second, the future is far, far away, I don't know, apparently when you are fresh
02:51it's much better, that's why in the training sessions it's nothing, it's come up to say
02:57hi, to laugh a little bit and prepare for the next game, so that's why it's so important
03:02to try to see, select with images, to learn exactly, understand what is going well or
03:06wrong and understand that, but you cannot apply, you cannot train, now maybe a little
03:13bit more, but when you are in February, March, April, December, January, February, the schedule
03:17is terrible, so in that situation it's just, you know, it's a rough energy to the game,
03:24it's what I learned, so when you are in clubs that play a lot of competitions, it's keep
03:29the energy to the moment of the game, so it's not interesting the day before training good
03:34or the day after, because you need energy for the 95 minutes you are going to play,
03:39and this is what I think, for the quality, for more injuries, less injuries, I would
03:44love to know, but honestly I don't know the consequences direct to the injuries or the
03:50performance, so honestly I don't know.
03:53On the players, they never make excuses, they just get on with it, but last season,
03:59towards the end of last season, Bernardo, he was very angry...
04:04Yeah, me too.
04:06Do you sense from your players that the players think the situation has become...
04:13No, it's something like, because we are playing on Wednesday, Real Madrid,
04:20the Champions League, so extra times, you know, and why are we playing on Saturday and
04:27Sunday, and the broadcasters say, no, because there is more audience, you know, more rating,
04:33audience, no, it's completely the opposite, so United with a championship team that play
04:39Coventry that was amazing, they have more audience, so the players, the game is good,
04:44the people will watch it, so why we cannot play on Sunday, this understanding is difficult
04:49for me to understand, and I said, we have to defend our product, the broadcasters, I
04:55defend my product, I defend my club, I defend my players, so this is the thing, it's difficult
04:59for me to understand it, you know, it's why, why, now the problem on Tuesday against Watford
05:06is a problem of schedules, no more days, a week is seven days, we are not creating eight
05:11days a week, nine days a week, no, nothing is going to happen, just seven days, so you
05:15have to fix all the games and the schedule is so tight, a lot of games, so it's impossible
05:20to handle it, so we just, you know, go for it, so that's why Bernardo was, me and all
05:27of us, because we were absolutely destroyed, so I said before the game, you are sad, right,
05:33you are tired, yeah, so we are not going to change that feeling, we went through against
05:38Madrid, we could not do it, so we are disappointed, you need time, you know, to process that defeat,
05:43to process that, and even you play against Chelsea, you know, give me one more day, why
05:47not, give us one more day, why not, it's the same for them, but yeah, that's why I said
05:53next season is going to happen the same, it's going to happen the same, when they decide
05:56they will not think about it, but it's what it is.
06:00Pep, just back on the independent commission next week, Javier Tebas has been talking about
06:07it in Spain, and claims he's spoken with a lot of Premier League clubs, and privately
06:12they all think City should be sanctioned, first of all, do you think he should be commenting
06:16on it, and secondly, do you think that's correct, do you think he's got a point?
06:20No, for the fact they've played with the Premier League teams and want to be sanctioned, that's
06:24for sure, I'm agreeing with Tebas for the first time, hopefully the last, I'm pretty
06:29sure I'm agreeing with that, so that's why I said Mr Tebas and the Premier League teams,
06:33wait, no independent panel, so you know, the justice is there in the modern democratic
06:41countries, so yeah, wait the decision, it's not much complicated than that, but I don't
06:49know if he's a lawyer, or all the Premier League teams are lawyers, so what I ask is
06:54that, is wait, it happens in the UEFA every time, so if there's something wrong, we believe
06:58we haven't done anything wrong, so we go to the independent panel, and we are going to
07:04wait.
07:06Good.
07:13No, not yet.
07:14We are on our way.
07:18They decide, I don't know if we want to vote or not vote, we'll see, next day we'll know it.
07:24Me vote?
07:25No, no, no.
07:27Don't make me discompromise.
07:29Two more questions, just one here.
07:34Just on Jack Rulish again, he's been up by today for instance, and a lot of talk about
07:39his form of strength, he's been here three years now, how do you think Jack has changed
07:44and developed and improved as a player since he's been here, from the guy who arrived from
07:49Aston Villa...
07:50It's a question for him, I think he's an exceptional player in Aston Villa, he's an exceptional
07:54player here.
07:55I think he made a half-half, good first season, the second was an unbelievable excellent season,
08:03last season was not good, and this season started a part of the niggles, really good,
08:11so hopefully he can do a good season.
08:15Armenia, FastMedia Armenia, midfielders playing in the pockets are very important to your
08:23teams, especially this season we see Pico Luis coming inside many times, how do you
08:35choose a player from another position who can play also in the pockets?
08:40The quality they have, there are players who can play inside and players who cannot
08:44play inside, it depends on the quality of the skills they have, not because I want one
08:48player there, they have no skills to be there, people feel more comfortable being outside
08:53than inside, so it depends on the quality of the players.
08:58Thank you guys.