Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola previews his side’s chances as they prepare for the visit of Huddersfield to the Etihad Stadium in the FA Cup on Sunday.
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Pep Guardiola press conference today
Timeline courtesy of Warrior J93
0:00 Intro
0:23 Team news update | Haaland, Doku, De Bruyne
1:33 January
2:30 Darren Moore
2:59 January
4:15 John Stones injury
4:29 Claudio Echeverri
4:41 Kalvin Phillips
5:31 January
6:05 Huddersfield
7:48 Kevin De Bruyne
10:17 Illness players
10:55 Rodri
11:10 Jack Grealish
12:19 Security
13:05 Outro | Please like the video and subscribe!
Afternoon guys hope you’re well same process have mics on either side we’ll set embargo towards the end for 10:30 on Saturday evening start with sign please hi pep hope you’re okay um could you just update us on the fitness of earling har and Jeremy Yu and Kevin De
Bruyne well happy new year for everyone I wish you all the best honestly you deserve it uh they they are already the last two three training sessions train with us so they feel Jeremy feels really really good Kevin as well of course Kevin was a long long time so
The physical condition any time so you have to be patient and exactly give the right minutes for for him for jerem well of course and earling yeah also a little bit better as a bone so that’s why I had to be a little bit more carefully but uh
The two training sessions two three have done the day after feels good so they are improving so hopefully I don’t know for Sunday but uh for I don’t know Newcastle but for the we be ready is this a little bit of a a strange period for you almost since
You’ve been at Manchester City you’ve played games every three days big matches all the time and now you’re coming to a month where you’ve only got three matches and it it seems as though everything’s spread out and you’re going to be at work with your players yeah but
It’s fine so I think the Premier League took a great decision so to make intense in boxing days in Christmas time like always have been when that’s in January make a break for the teams especially playing Europe competition helps a lot to R February a little bit fresh
Mentally so yeah it’s what it is so in the past was more games we we did it we won a lot even with the tough period but it’s good now to have of course FA Cup like to try to retain the title or arrive as far as possible and and I to
Have a a really important game in Newcastle and after you have two weeks to to refresh specially our minds I I don’t know how much you know of Darren Moore but you made reference to his team and their comeback when he was at Sheffield Wednesday and they came back
From 4-n down I guess that is a reminder that anything can happen in football even was nice to see him that time it’s nice to see him again again there so we had a good chat in that moment so happy to see him again on
Sunday hi b as as Simon was saying you have now three games in in in January um is is it going to be to feel different to be able yeah yeah potential for is it going to be different to be able to be actually a manager on the pitch training
A players yeah yeah absolutely we have more time to training to remember things that you cannot do yeah normally you have to try to do things that we don’t have time to do in the when the in the busy schedule but at the same times don’t
Lose what we doing every single day is there any urgent aspects that you want to correct or improve yeah always there are things you have to improve but just remember it yeah for the want maybe it’s a little more difficult but in general eight8 years together so it just
Refresh Concepts that maybe we forgot why because we don’t have time to train we have this week the week for Newcastle as well and especially in Abu D you have time to to continue training and from especially Kevin and Jeremy and the other on will be good to to finish
His physical condition in terms of the market are you happy with the squad you always always I have been yeah hi pep um just going back to the team news just if you could update on Jon stones at all how how is he doing he’s not training with us it’s getting
Better but it’s not training with us did you expect him to be out for a little while and I don’t few more weeks I don’t know one player coming in claudo um can you say you on Prospect he is the club didn’t inform me anything about that no
News hi um obviously it be in January um so we’re going to talk about trans I just want to know about Calvin Phillips you talked about him a lot recently but do you expect him to leave dur I only I said there was the five last five days
Sick so he could not train the last five days only I can say so the rest the transfer market I said many times so I don’t know Chi is there so it’s going to happen it’s going to happen I’m not going to anticipate anything here because I don’t know the desires of the
Players some of them I know it but the other ones don’t know so I don’t know you okay sorry is he okay who he’s been sick he’s sick Calvin he a congestion or fever and we have few unfort but do you do do you expect him to be
The only player to leave this window I’m say I don’t know I don’t talk about transfer window here so I don’t know the players going to sign 10 players we going to get rid off 10 players leave 10 players so I don’t know apparently like happened in the past we start the season
The same players and finish with the same players maybe one but I’m not uh I don’t think it’s going to happen but you never know hi P um in the past championship football or lower league football in England has has been about being physical and and lots of long balls now
You’ve got Champion championship teams that like to play out from the bat there are League two teams who play with fullbacks in Midfield like you tried to do last season when you analyze games whether it’s huttersfield or these lower league team do you see your ideas in different teams throughout the pyramid I
Don’t have time to see other teams but you must see always always I believe that the teams play what what the manager believe First the players that they have adapt absolutely but after what what um so one team play high pressing is but the manager believe in
That team play long balls because the manager believe in that so this is the most important thing but I don’t know I don’t know because I don’t have time to watch it a little bit later because first played the last game against hfield and because Enzo is there and I’m
Curious always and happy how incredible is doing but uh the rest I don’t have time because it’s obviously easy to see your influence here but lots of the managers you’ve just spoken about that you know it’s their choice will reference you and and say that it’s you that’s changed the
Way that English football is is played now I don’t know would be so uncomfortable for myself talk about myself about that so I don’t know that honestly I said many times when I arrive here is try to play to do my game play the way I like to you know watch to play
This is the only thing the rest you think everyone copy and paste and for other managers from little details me included the first so honestly I don’t know I don’t know what this influence hi pep obviously with Kevin coming back and it’s been a serious injury do you think he’ll have to play
In a different way do you think his game will change do you have to ask him to do slightly different things when he comes back I understand what the the the intention of the question for the injur but I would love to play the way he
Played last eight years years with me I would love it so I think he’s not going to change his quality is there his potential but of course he’s a injur big one and try to what I’m concerned the most is the fact that try to avoid it
You know to be recident in this injur this is what to be careful for the minutes in the first because enthusiasms in the first minute is wow I want to play and play today and but I have to be careful just on that I have to speak with him especially but
Not especially with him but especially with the ficial doctors and the guys who knows exactly what is the best process and the meaners exactly and and what what what Kevin needs or every player for the long injures is accumulate weeks training sessions weeks and weeks and weeks and minutes weeks and minutes not
Met step backs step backs that is will be the worst from from from Kevin or Jeremy or erling that have been a while that is the most important he can train four five six training sessions in a row play minutes in a game and after four five more training sessions minutes
Again one day 90 minutes another day 50 and training good in Abu Dhabi that is the best can happen right now from Kevin what’s what’s the risk with an injury like this cuz I think we know after a knee injury players are training and then they might get muscle injuries
After that so when it’s a a muscle injury that you need surgery on what are the types of risks to strong the muscle and flexible and and that that’s why we have a athletic people and fyss to to try to handle it I’m not a doctor F so I don’t
Know but I guess so it’s question of accumulate timing timing of training session this is the most important thing than play 90 minutes and 80 minutes and 90 minutes if we do that right now he’s going to get injured again so has to be even his feeling you know how he feels
You know how he recover for the big action how he recover so it’s long time didn’t make a precison three months he’s so fresh he’s so having C desire but in the other point you have to be careful I you mentioned before when you talking about the illness that there
Might be a few players that have that have been on well this week is that is that quite a lot of the squad four players are problems yeah unfortunately his granddad grandom Grandma passed away yesterday who is in Madrid so today and tomorrow will not be here
And uh Bernardo and uh Stefan no Scotty and Calvin and Matos Nunes are like many people I think uh in this time is suffering is will you give rodri as long as he as long as he needs and to to be at home family issues are the most
Important thing so hopefully come back to for the game but if he need to stay so family is the most important thing last couple guys I do Paul and Mike hi pep and you said on Saturday that Jack reallyy should been severely impacted by what had happened at his
Home how was he been this week is he you seen a bit brighter or is he still kind of yeah is much better of course he communicate a lot his feelings and it’s time to to fix you know to don’t happen again and uh the bar has to know no more
Jewelry at home so it’s not necessary to come back again joke aside so it’s uh uh yeah it’s fixing you know to try to avoid happen again so what what can you do as a club to kind of support him mentally of course we have here incredible people Barry our chief
Security is an incredible person and he’s handling with uh him his family his girlfriend you know his impact because it’s normal so when you at at home and the people being inside come inside you have we are scared so it’s normal try to be relaxed and try to you know to make
The perfect environment to don’t happen again can I ask with that with of all players um have the club spoken to all the players about security at their homes I think they know it yeah they have they explain to them and that the security will increase for them from now
Sometime last season I think the club make a Barry and the people make a an statement a meeting with the players with all of us and say oh this is a reality and you have to be careful you have to prepare and surb billions or you know when you live in apartment maybe
Here easier but in the countryside on a way with the big houses so they have to today but not just in UK so happen in in Spain like a reality I know in catalunia a reality I know but I think in Italy everywhere so today is a a
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