00:16Hi everybody.
00:29Welcome back, we'll start with the broadcast section that's got no embargo followed by an embargoed section for 10.30pm
00:35tonight. No live tweeting during the broadcast section and if we can keep it to a maximum of three questions
00:39a person that would be great. Michael.
00:42Roberto, how are you?
00:44Yeah, I'm good.
00:44You're good?
00:45Good, good.
00:47Just tell us about the summer so far, so much has happened since May, so many big signings, players leaving.
00:56How happy are you?
00:58It seems I'm here for 10 years, just three months, very intense three months. I think we can't forget what
01:13happened last season. It's a big lesson for us, for every one of us.
01:20But anyway, we have to go on another page and to start another season, an important season. We are building,
01:29I think, a new project.
01:33And now the big challenge, without talking too much about the target, the goal of this season, the first two
01:42targets we have very clear in ourselves is to find the soul of the team.
01:50The first target and the second target is to improve in our organization of football. With the ball, without the
02:02ball, our style has to be the key of our season, like our soul.
02:10These two characteristics I want to find as soon as possible.
02:21Sovino, Ed Omerescu has just said that he wanted to leave on day one. It's obviously very close here. After
02:28Sovino, how many more do you want? Any more bombers?
02:31Well, it's not, it's not right to speak about the players until they are not official. Just to say I'm
02:42very happy. We have not finished yet the transfer market.
02:46It's an important part, I think. Because so far we have had a great sign, great players, great behavior, great
03:00spirit, great personality.
03:06But you know better than me in Premier League. You don't win the game with the names, with the big
03:14players. There are a lot of examples in the last years in Premier League.
03:21We have to deserve to win the game. And to deserve to win the game, we have to reach the
03:30height level in character, in passion, in value and in the style of play as well.
03:38You've also sold many players, Jed Spentyn, Christian Romero, your club captain. Can you tell us the new Tottenham Hotspur
03:46captain?
03:47Yes, the new Tottenham Hotspur captain is Mickie van de Ven, the second Pedro Porro, the third Ben Davis, the
03:57fourth James Madison and the fifth Archie Gray.
04:02Why five captains? Just because I want many captains inside of the pitch and to be clear in the position.
04:17And every one of them, they deserve to be a captain or in the group of the captains.
04:27But the personality, the passion is not if you are a captain or you are not a captain.
04:37Thank you. Good luck tomorrow. Anita.
04:40Hi. Hi. Yeah, good.
04:42I know you said that you don't want to talk about a player until they're officially announced,
04:48referring to Savino. From what we understand, he's been a long-standing target of the club for a while.
04:54So just how involved have you been with the transfer decisions so far this summer?
05:00Yes, but in the transfer market, no. In Tottenham, in every club is not just for the coach,
05:09it's not just for the sport director, it's not just for the board.
05:12I think we are working very well with Johan Lang, with Vinay, with Nick, with all the board involved in
05:26the transfer market.
05:27We have spoken a lot of time in this summer because it's a connection, the most important part,
05:36not in the transfer market but in football, in a club so big like Tottenham, so important like Tottenham,
05:43is the connection between the people inside of the club.
05:50And I think we are closing the first target we have, the targets we have in our plan.
05:58And from a long time, before I came in April, we have already spoken about these targets of the transfer
06:10market.
06:11Team news for tomorrow, for your first game of this season, could you talk us through which players?
06:17You mentioned Micky van der Leven being your new captain or he being that you have?
06:22No, Micky Micky is not on the list tomorrow like Pedro Porro and the other players are all inside.
06:32James Madison is inside, Domi Solanke is inside, Udoji is inside, Mateus Fernandes is inside.
06:42Pappasar, no, because he felt pain today in Amsterdam. I think nothing important but we don't take risk with him,
06:56especially in this moment.
06:57And just finally, you mentioned those two components that you feel are key for you,
07:03that the organisation, the style of play, the soul, is that what would be a successful season for you?
07:09Because you've now had a full pre-season, something that managers are always crying to have with the team.
07:26Yes, I think we started last season to build something about the style of play.
07:34Not too much, because it was not the right time to work too much in the style, in the principle
07:41of with the ball, without the ball, but we started working in the soul.
07:50And in the last six games with me, I think we showed that in a lot of times, even when
07:58we lost in Chelsea.
08:01And I think it is the first point, the most important part in football now.
08:11Ian.
08:12Hi, Roberto.
08:13Hi.
08:15We spoke a lot about transfers.
08:17It seems that the amount we have to pay for players these days has gone so high.
08:24Every player, when you want to buy a player, seems to be at least 60 or 70 or 80 million
08:29pounds.
08:30For a football man, do you think that's a bit crazy with going a bit crazy with how much money
08:37is being spent on players?
08:40But I think the Premier League is a different league.
08:44It's different price, different competition in the transfer market.
08:50I don't know if it's right or not, but on the market, and I'm not speaking just in football, generally
08:58in the market, you can't say if it's right, fair or not.
09:04You can accept or not, and if you want to compete in Premier League now, you have to adapt.
09:11I think I heard too many times, Tottenham, Mane, Tottenham, Mane, but I love football from a long time, and
09:25I didn't see teams competing for the height level without spending money.
09:34Maybe if Tottenham spend money is a problem in Premier League, I don't know why, but the other teams, all
09:40other teams, they spent money in the past, also in this season.
09:44But for me it's not a pressure, it's just a consideration.
09:51You mentioned about learning from last season, if I learned from last season, and maybe the season before, even maybe
09:57before that.
09:58Fitness of players, keeping players available, being able to put, I haven't seen Deja Kulusevski in a spare shirt, I
10:05don't know, since colour television was invented, it seems like that anyway, so long.
10:09How are you going to keep your players fit this season?
10:14I don't know, I think another important part of this season is the medical staff, the physical staff is new
10:30for a big part of them.
10:33Big, big, big professionals, great people, very good in their jobs.
10:44I think it's important, it's important also the management of the players.
10:51When the players have some problems, we have to stay calm, don't take risks.
11:01We have Kulusevski, we have Odobert, we have Chavisimos, injuries.
11:09Now Kudus is almost ready, and there's a big, big points for us.
11:17But these three players are top players for us, and we're looking forward to watch them on the pitch.
11:27And last one, you only play one game a week this season, no Europe, so you have one game every
11:33week, like Manchester United did last season.
11:37Is that your target, like United last season, to finish in the top four or top five?
11:41I don't know, I hope we have not one game every week, because we have Carabao and FA Cup, and
11:50for me we are competing for three competitions.
11:59Yes, the first season for sure is a big advantage, because we have time to work during the week.
12:10We can improve faster than the Champions League or Europe League in the middle of the week, for sure.
12:19But I would like to compete every season in the European competition, because I think Tottenham deserve to stay in
12:32that competition.
13:02Thank you and good luck.
13:03But during the preseason in Australia, I don't know the flight, I don't know something, not a big problem, but
13:13not the right to work.
13:16But we have Senesi, we have Ben Davis, and we are anyway in the right condition to play the game
13:27tomorrow and to try to find the result.
13:32Jed Spence obviously is left in the summer. What are you going to do about that right-back position? Are
13:36you going to buy a new right-back?
13:38First of all, I'm really disappointed with Jed, because I love him.
13:49We have a great relationship, he's a very good guy, he's a very important player, but at the end I
13:56have to respect.
13:56If he wants to play 38 games, I can't give any word, any guarantee for the players, especially if we
14:07are building a big competition inside of the squad.
14:11Right-back is, I think, in this moment one, maybe the best, maybe one of the three best right-back
14:18in the world.
14:19In the left-back we have Udoge Robertson and both are big, big level.
14:27And if you don't want to stay anymore in Tottenham, in a big club, you have to leave.
14:35Like Kuti, like with Kuti, the same relationship with Spence, Vicario, for example.
14:48Vicario called me Thursday, not Wednesday, when he left.
14:58I'm sorry, but football is like this.
15:01I think, if I spoke at the beginning of my press conference about the soul, to find the soul,
15:08every one of us, they have to stay here with the right spirit, proud to stay here,
15:14and with great ambitions, great motivation.
15:20Otherwise, it's tough one season with me, without motivation and without ambition.
15:27It becomes tough for everyone.
15:29Do you need another right-back?
15:33In this moment, I think, no.
15:35We have Archie Gray.
15:37He preferred playing in the midfield position, but he can play very well also as a right-back.
15:49I think we are good.
15:51I don't want 25, 26 players.
15:56I want 21, 22 players.
15:59I think are enough.
16:01Especially if these players, or more players, they can adapt in more position of the pitch.
16:07And I think we have many players who can play in different positions.
16:14Gray, midfielder, right-back.
16:16Gallagher, number 10, or number 8, is the same.
16:22Mickey van der Werner, Ben Davies, left-back.
16:27I think we are Kudus, winger, or number 10.
16:33We have a lot of solutions.
16:36I just wanted to ask him, where is he at right now?
16:40Is he training?
16:42He's working.
16:43Not with the group, but with the individual coach.
16:50I am serving a lot of him.
16:53Because, first of all, he suffered too much.
16:59And, as a human situation, has been tough for him, no?
17:06And every one of us, we are close with him for this period.
17:14And then, he's a different player.
17:17He's a special player.
17:18If his feet are available, he's a different player, like Xavi Simons, no?
17:25Okay, we'll end the broadcast section there and move on to the embargoed section.
17:28And all that might eat, if we're got to change and get ready.
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