00:00Do you feel stronger now as a squad today than you did at the end of last season?
00:07Yes, I do.
00:09Can you explain why?
00:12Well, this is what I feel now, we have to prove it.
00:16I think we are better equipped, I think we have more players available than what we had at the start
00:20of last season.
00:21I think we have increased the quality and we have increased the leadership in the team as well, which is
00:27very important.
00:28Obviously, the guys have talked about departures in front-line, forward, moving, one-in,
00:34but can you make a case for, strangely, your options being strong?
00:38It's clearly you're stronger in defence in midfield, but in attack as well?
00:42Yes, but that's an overall question.
00:43We have to prove in that particular position whether we are better or not.
00:48Let's see.
00:49I mean, we need to play.
00:50I don't like to make assumptions before.
00:52I think that's not just the responsibility of those players,
00:55it's the responsibility of the team and the dynamic of the team,
00:59and we have multiple options to play there with different profiles as well.
01:03I was going to say as well, but have people forgotten what you already have?
01:08There's a famous quote from Wenger,
01:11when he says that we live in a society of new things,
01:13that was obsessed with the next shiny new thing.
01:16But I ask you, have people forgotten what you have?
01:21That's the human nature, I think.
01:23I think when you talk to people and you ask the people normally,
01:27what is in your bucket list?
01:28People write a lot about the bucket list and sometimes we forgot the reverse bucket list,
01:35which is the things that you already have in your life that are incredible,
01:39but you put so much emphasis on them that nothing seems to be enough.
01:43And it's not only in football, but it happens in life
01:45and I think it's very important to value.
01:47That's what I said about the squad and how much I love our players,
01:51that they really value what we have and what we have created together.
01:55And then the ambition is great.
01:58They have the ambition always to be better,
02:00especially to evolve the things that we already have within the club
02:04that for sure has to be there.
02:07But let's not lose perspective of what we already have,
02:10which is amazing and we are very lucky to have them.
02:26Because it's one striker, two central defenders or three, so you need more.
02:31Some of them cross-batter, some of them play full-back as well.
02:34Overall, the reason why…
02:35So what is the right proportion?
02:37Can you tell me?
02:38I don't know, it's just I'm giving you an answer.
02:41So what is the question?
02:43The disparity between the strikers and defenders, why is that?
02:47Is that just because of the market?
02:49Is it because…
02:49But I should have signed more strikers, you mean?
02:51Yeah.
02:52Ah, okay.
02:53Well, it depends.
02:54When I arrive here, we had two great strikers as well, with Ova and Laka.
02:59Then we had Eddie as well, that he was in-house.
03:03And things have developed, I don't know.
03:05And as well, trust the players that you already have to do that.
03:09And now we have made a move last year.
03:10Last summer we made a move.
03:12And now Gabi has gone to Barcelona,
03:14which I take the opportunity as well to give him the huge thank you,
03:18because he was a massive contributor for us to change the dynamic
03:22and the energy in and around this club.
03:24I think when Gabi came in, he brought this smile, this energy,
03:28this belief with him, this aura.
03:29That's really helped to achieve what happened next.
03:32And now, yeah, he has an amazing opportunity to enjoy
03:35one of the biggest clubs in the world
03:37and a beautiful place to live as well.
03:40And we are happy for him.
03:41In the recent weeks in terms of the transfer window,
03:43Gabriel Heinz, your assistant manager,
03:46he's supposedly been in touch with some of his fellow Argentines
03:49to be willing to join Arsenal.
03:53What's his kind of role?
03:54Do you have a role in terms of player transfers and that kind of thing?
03:57I don't know where that is coming from,
04:00but we all have responsibility on everything that we do
04:03and we know people.
04:04Obviously we need to find out about people,
04:06their assets and relationships,
04:08they have to be used,
04:10but there's nothing different with any other member of the staff.
04:12John?
04:14Hi.
04:15Were you slightly disappointed,
04:17seeing as you are the Champions League London
04:19and Champions League finalists,
04:20that it was still too difficult to get certain people to start?
04:27Should it have been a big line and stars wishing to knock on the door,
04:31or shouldn't it be closed to the door?
04:34I don't know.
04:35I think to get this door in this market is complicated.
04:39It's not that easy.
04:41I don't know how it looks from the outside.
04:43We have put everything that we possibly could to make those deals happen
04:46and we have made most of them happen.
04:49And we've been very efficient.
04:50I think what Andrea has done in the market,
04:52again, has been incredible with the support of all the club.
04:56And that's it.
04:57But it's never perfect.
04:58It doesn't mean to be perfect.
04:59Do you still have to sell the club a bit?
05:02Is it still something that's brilliant to go just for the club?
05:04No.
05:06On that one, I think the club can sell by himself.
05:09I think in that sense,
05:10I think we are very lucky.
05:11We live in a beautiful city as well,
05:13which always helps for the wives, girlfriends and families.
05:18Ok, last two, we will go to the
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