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Pochettino previews Chelsea's cup game against AFC Wimbledon as they seek more transfers
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00:00 How much more transfer business do you expect to be done before the deadline on Friday and
00:06 is a right winger or a forward on your list?
00:10 I don't know to be honest.
00:13 In the last few days we are so focused on trying to recover the players and to be focused
00:18 in the game that we are going to play tomorrow for the Carabao Cup against Wimbledon.
00:24 I know very well that the club is working really hard to try to finish our business
00:31 in a few days.
00:34 Something can happen, yes, maybe yes, but at the moment only working and trying to,
00:45 you know, the club delivering what we want, but still nothing to communicate at the moment.
00:53 Is it a case that there will be more outgoings than incomings?
00:56 We understand Romelu's move to Roma is being finalised, but also Callum Hudson of Dori's
01:01 future, is that any closer to a resolution?
01:05 That is not, I am not involved in these situations.
01:09 I am focused on the team, that is the club, that they are working between the club and
01:15 the player, but in that case I am not involved in the situation.
01:18 I cannot tell nothing because nothing changed at the moment, no one communicated that some
01:24 situation was finished.
01:26 For sure when something will be done, the club will communicate to you, but at the moment
01:33 nothing changed the situation.
01:34 There are a couple more I want to ask you about.
01:35 Marcu Correa, there are suggestions that he might go out on loan, Manchester United have
01:36 shown some interest.
01:37 If he was to leave, would that leave you short in that position do you think?
01:46 I cannot talk about the supposition, there are rumours, I cannot talk about rumours.
01:51 I think nothing, at the moment nothing changed.
01:55 For tomorrow he is going to be able to play, at the moment the club didn't inform me about
02:03 this situation.
02:04 Is he one you would like to keep potentially?
02:07 All the players that are on the squad, he is a player that is in our plan.
02:13 And then, like I was telling you, it is about situations, players and club, club and players,
02:21 and then it is a decision.
02:22 But at the moment all the players that are on the squad are in our plan.
02:27 Even if in that case he didn't play at the moment, we need 22-23 players on the squad.
02:34 And the last one, Xharaba, the same situation with him?
02:37 The same issue, he is not going to play tomorrow.
02:41 All the decisions were made before the start of the pre-season, and then things can happen
02:48 like in the case of Kepa or different players.
02:51 But I think in and out, after it is the convenience of the club and the players, we are open to
03:00 listen to people and what they want.
03:02 But it is always about 50-50, the situation is about the player and the club.
03:08 Moving on, injuries, Barça and Barça are back out on the grass, are they close to being
03:18 involved again?
03:19 Maybe tomorrow?
03:20 Tomorrow?
03:21 For tomorrow?
03:22 Barça and Barça?
03:23 No.
03:24 Weekend maybe?
03:25 I don't believe.
03:26 No.
03:27 We need to wait until after the international break and we will see.
03:28 Ruderick as well, is he closer?
03:40 Maybe he is closer than Brogia and Medecile, but still we need to assess day by day.
03:49 Just in terms of this match and this tournament, no European Cup this season, does that mean
03:54 that domestic cups take on an even greater significance for you in terms of your...
03:58 All the competitions are important for Chelsea.
04:00 It is true that the circumstances are not the best in that moment because we have many
04:04 injuries and we need to deal after with the Saturday game against Nottingham Forest.
04:09 We are going to try to put the best team to be sure that we are going to perform in the
04:16 way that we want.
04:17 But of course we have some players that we need to avoid the risk and we need to give
04:23 some rest.
04:24 Yes, that is why I was telling before, we were so focused on trying to assess and analyse
04:31 all the players, individual players, to try to take the best decision for tomorrow.
04:35 We need to be competitive and at the same time we need to put the best team that we
04:39 can.
04:40 Thank you, Mauricio.
04:41 You're welcome.
04:42 Hi Mauricio, how are you?
04:43 Why did clubs leave everything to the last week of the transfer window?
04:44 Would it not be easier if you all did your business in the first week and then once the
04:45 season started, you were all going to leave?
04:46 Why?
04:47 We're still doing business.
04:48 It goes right down to the last week and the last day.
04:49 Yes, but when you see behind me, I think the club is doing a fantastic job about business.
04:50 That was the plan.
04:51 We were going to leave everything to the last week of the transfer window.
04:52 Would it not be easier if you all did your business in the first week and then once the
04:53 season started, you were all going to leave?
04:54 Yes, but when you see behind me, I think the club is doing a fantastic job about business.
04:55 That was the plan.
04:56 We were going to leave everything to the last week of the transfer window.
04:57 Would it not be easier if you all did your business in the first week and then once the
04:58 season started, you were all going to leave?
04:59 Yes, but when you see behind me, I think the club is doing a fantastic job about business.
05:00 That was the plan.
05:01 We were going to leave everything to the last week of the transfer window.
05:21 I explained again, the plan was to do a lot of business and maybe to change the project
05:30 and to create a different project.
05:32 That is why the club is working so hard to deliver it, but it's never easy.
05:38 It's to do everything in one month or in two months.
05:43 I think for me the club is doing a fantastic job in terms of doing business, but like us,
05:52 but different team also, different club, until the end we are trying to do things to improve
06:00 the squad in the way that we believe that we can improve the squad.
06:05 I'll rephrase the question a little bit.
06:07 Is the transfer window, is three months long enough or should it just be how you used to
06:13 have it?
06:14 I think so, it's long enough.
06:17 Because we are already crazy and with a few days more we become crazy also because I think
06:28 it's too long, the transfer window.
06:32 But it's about things, strange things happening.
06:37 It looks like someone is in behind here.
06:44 It's unbelievable, it's not me.
06:48 It's you, Charlie.
06:50 Oh my goodness.
06:52 Is it Romelu trying to get his way?
06:55 Oh my goodness.
06:57 No, I think it's, OK, for a club like now Chelsea, in the process that we are in the
07:06 moment, all the circumstances I think it's helping, three months, you know, the transfer,
07:10 we open the transfer.
07:13 For different clubs that maybe are in a different, working in a different way or they are in
07:18 a different level or different process, I think it's crazy.
07:23 But I think it's helping us to try to do what we want to do.
07:27 I'm not going to complain.
07:29 Maybe in the next few years, maybe I will complain more, but at the moment I think to
07:34 the time it's always good.
07:36 I don't know what you've done to Raheem Sterling, but he looks a completely different player
07:40 already this season than last season here.
07:43 Is he back to the form that saw him as a really important part of England's Euro squad a year
07:50 and a half ago?
07:52 I think it's, I'm going to repeat, he deserves the credit because when he has scored and
07:59 worked for the team, I think it's only if he won, all the players want to do.
08:06 Only what we are doing is to create a platform for all the players to find their best, to
08:13 feel comfortable.
08:15 All the questions that we can find solutions for them and situations that maybe they cannot
08:21 fix in the past, we are able always to discuss, to talk and to give our opinion.
08:28 But I think all the players, when the players like him, performing the way that he's performed
08:34 in the last games, to find the responsibility inside of him, he deserves the credit.
08:44 And finally tomorrow, how difficult is it to prepare a team for a game whereby you have
08:50 everything to lose?
08:51 Wimbledon will come here to the cup final, if they're going to beat you 6-0 they don't
08:54 really care.
08:55 To be honest we are not thinking in this way.
08:59 We are thinking to start with 11 players that can perform in the way that we want.
09:07 Be right in our assessment and avoid risk because we have many injuries and the squad
09:14 is not big at the moment.
09:16 We are going to use 4-5 young guys through the academy, 17-year-old, 16-year-old.
09:28 But Chelsea always produce good talent, young kids and now is a good opportunity.
09:38 It's not because it's our philosophy at the moment.
09:41 I need to clarify because I cannot be populist and hypocrite.
09:47 It's not because it's our philosophy, it's because we need young guys to bring to the
09:52 first team because we have some players that cannot play tomorrow.
09:58 But yes, with the time I think it should be good to create the possibility for the young
10:05 guys, part of the project is to produce players for the first team because the academy and
10:15 all the coaches there are working so hard and I think in a club like Chelsea it's always
10:19 good to have players from the academy that can show the identity of the club.
10:31 You just said that the squad is not big enough.
10:35 No, no, now for this game.
10:38 That is why we are going to bring some young guys from the academy.
10:43 I wanted to find out from you, in the case, because you said you don't know, if you don't
10:50 sign anyone by the transfer window when it starts on Friday, would you be satisfied with
10:55 the squad you've got?
10:56 Yes, I am happy.
10:59 I am really happy with the squad that we've got at the moment so far.
11:05 If we add some that maybe can improve, you know, different positions, of course.
11:13 Welcome, if not I am happy to be like how we are now.
11:23 Is it too early for Petrovic to make his debut or do you think Sanchez needs another game?
11:29 He is going to play Sanchez tomorrow, I can confirm that he is going to play Sanchez because
11:34 we still don't know, we don't have the confirmation if Xoxo can be available or not.
11:41 Because still we need the confirmation of the Premier League or the Federation.
11:46 The Premier League.
11:48 We still don't know if we can use it tomorrow or not but that is why we prepared the game
11:56 with Robert.
11:57 But by the way, I think he needs more time to train and to understand in the way that
12:06 we want to play, the concept, working with Toni and Hilario.
12:10 He is working well but we don't want to rush also.
12:15 But also we don't know if he is going to be on the bench because the permit is still
12:24 not arrived.
12:25 Mauricio, when you were at Tottenham you talked about being judged on trying to win the Premier
12:33 League, trying to win the Champions League.
12:36 With no Europe here, is this competition more important to you now?
12:42 Are you judged on how…
12:44 I am going to make the same mistake because it is going to follow me forever, for all
12:49 my life.
12:50 I want to win the Carabao Cup, I want to win the FA Cup and I want to win the Premier League.
12:56 See what happens after.
12:58 But I am not going to try to explain nothing because after the thing twist and then in
13:04 Tottenham I never said I prefer to win the…
13:08 I think.
13:11 I was trying to explain but I never always put out this feeling.
13:14 I want to win tomorrow and I want to win the Cups, I want to win the Premier League.
13:18 Even if we are involved, we will be involved in the next few years in the Champions League
13:22 or in different European competitions.
13:26 I think every single competition is going to be a challenge for us and it is going to
13:32 be an objective to win.
13:33 Did you always feel a bit misunderstood then about your relationship with this competition?
13:39 No, because maybe my English wasn't good enough when we arrived to Southampton.
13:44 It was always too difficult to translate the idea of what means and time, priorities and
13:50 like this.
13:51 And when the message is not clear, then it is difficult to change this idea.
14:00 That is why we are older guys now and more experienced and I learn.
14:07 Look, I want to win every single competition because I become older and I want to win.
14:14 I cannot wait.
14:16 I cannot say, "OK, this season is only to be focused on this and this season we…"
14:20 No, no.
14:21 I think it is not time to waste time and it is about to win.
14:27 That is the idea I want to translate to the players and the staff.