00:05Enzo, when you look at the players you've got and the variety of players you've got, aside from being a
00:11winning team, which is obviously what you want the most, do you think you can be great entertainers as well
00:16this season?
00:17I think when you are in Manchester City you have to compete, you have to try to win title, or
00:23at least, as I said, compete, and we're going to try to do our best.
00:27For me now, again, I already said many times, for me now the main focus is to see the team
00:33improving game after game, and this is the main target for me in this moment.
00:38So, as a consequence, for me the focus now is not where we can be, I don't know, March, April,
00:44for me the focus is tomorrow how we can win the game and how we can do better.
00:48You're the sort of manager and coach, Enzo, that aside ultimately from wanting a winning team and playing the way
00:55you want, do you want and expect an attractive side of football as well as that?
01:00You know, something that really gets the fans excited, for you is that a really important component of your team?
01:07I think, I think, I think all the managers, they have their own idea, at the end it's a matter
01:13of winning games, and I like to win games in the way we want to play, and this is the
01:20important thing, not only when we have the ball, also when we don't have the ball, and this is the
01:24main thing for them.
01:26So, just on your captain, you say Ruben, Erling, Mark, Donnarum, what particular qualities made you pick those?
01:36First of all, because Mark was already captain with Palace, so he has the experience, Gigi is the captain of
01:41the international team, so he has the experience.
01:44But these are the fours that they're going to be the captain, but I also, you know, I was thinking
01:49about Phil, because Phil is one of the guys from the house,
01:52he's not in that group, but for me he's also one of the captain, one of the players that belong
01:58to that group.
02:00In terms of that group, do you sort of reinvent, kind of captain, or run the dressing room, being sort
02:06of detached from that area?
02:08Yeah, absolutely, the reason why I decided for them is because I can see them helping also the teammates and
02:15the dressing room how to behave in the right way.
02:20Hi, just on Fernandes again. I think a lot of people have been quite surprised by the size of the
02:25feet, 125 million, that's a British record.
02:29You know him as a character, is he the sort of person who would be affected by that, whether you
02:33not think about that?
02:34No, I, I, I, if you will be in the past, I already told many times, don't judge players on
02:41base how much the club pray for them.
02:43Not just for Chelsea, for City, for all the clubs, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, all the clubs, don't judge players based
02:53on that,
02:53because this, for me, is not correct. And so he's a fantastic player, again, it's a winner mentality, it's what
03:02we need, it's full of energy, and this is the most important.
03:06You brought in Day and also Alain as well, so you've got quite, sort of, good strength on the wings,
03:16you've got quite a lot of players on the wings.
03:17Where do you see Phil Thurden's best position, because he's obviously playing out wide, quite a bit, and he's playing
03:24there, where do you see him?
03:25I think Phil, I think Phil's best position is in the middle, but he's, he's doing an effort to help
03:33the team, because for the first two games,
03:38we didn't have options in the wide area, with Jeremy West injury, no doubt that Phil's position in the middle
03:44is much better,
03:45but I'm very, very happy with Phil since Day 1, he's working very good, even when he has played wide
03:53in the last two games, he was good,
03:55you can see that inside the pitch is much better, but at the end, Phil is going to play in
04:01different positions,
04:02as we mentioned now, because he's good, and the players, they can play in different positions.
04:08Hi Enzo, I don't know if you've said this, but over the last few days, Fabregas,
04:13Cesc Fabregas in his press conference, Lewis and Rieken his, were talking about positional play,
04:19as the last one used to do it, has disappeared now, because you need constant movements,
04:23and things like that, but I was just wondering what you, what you think about that subject,
04:29and the way that football is developing.
04:32I didn't see that, to be honest, I think you have to evolve, if football goes in one direction,
04:40you have to try to understand in which direction, and how you can do it better.
04:44Now, if a positional player is disappearing, I don't know, I don't know.
04:50I think this is a Greece and Cesc source, but I don't know.
04:57In terms of evolving, and the way the midfield has been completely rebuilt,
05:02with the way that football is, you talked about PSG being so strong in pre-season,
05:07because they want to go back to back.
05:09Are those kind of things, what you think about when you're bringing in players this season?
05:14And obviously you've got a bunch of players for Eli Anderson,
05:16who are so combative in midfield, does that form part of it?
05:19Also, also, for Elliot, Enzo, and Ayub, Wadi,
05:25it's first of all because we knew that we need to change something,
05:30also because they are, you know, quite young, all of them, so full of energy.
05:37And again, no doubt that it basically will be the game plan that we have,
05:41but no doubt that these three players, they're going to be the main players for us.
05:45Just on Enzo Fernandes, he's changed quite a lot as a player,
05:47maybe since the World Cup, when they won him,
05:50when he was still at Benfica against Chelsea,
05:52he was very deep, quite good off the ball as well,
05:57and tackles over the last few years, he's moved further up the pitch.
06:00Like, how do you see him fitting in here?
06:02How do you see his evolution as a player?
06:04Enzo can play as a six, or he can play also as number eight,
06:08I would say the box defensively.
06:13With me at Chelsea, he scored lots of goals,
06:16and he's arriving from the second line.
06:19So, it depends a little bit, we are going to use him in different positions.
06:26Just following up on that, you see Enzo kind of behind, like, a run-up or a failing?
06:32Again, I see Enzo as a six, a little bit more deep, as he said,
06:39or a little bit more right around the box.
06:41Again, it depends a little bit, what do we need for the game,
06:44and we are going to use him in different positions.
06:46And I wanted to ask, there's been so much change this summer.
06:51You were placing in the transfer window, the squad changing.
06:56How do you feel about that?
06:58Does that help you to have so much change?
07:00Yeah, I can see it now, it's our team, it's, again, the main target now for me
07:08is to see how the players improve day after day, game after game,
07:13that is the most important thing.
07:14It's something that we have done in the last games,
07:18but it's just the beginning of the Premier League,
07:21and there are many more games that we need to do, I think.
07:24Does it help everyone feel like it's a beginning, though,
07:29and it's a new chapter, that there is so much kind of new faces in the squad,
07:32new energies?
07:34The club is aware, the players, they are aware of that,
07:38and the coaching staff, we are aware that it's the beginning of a new project,
07:46or, you know, something new.
07:50And, again, the most important thing when you start something
07:53is that you can see that the team is better in October than September,
07:58it's better in November than October.
07:59It's what we need.
08:03Hi, Enzo.
08:03Did you find it fully that Ernesto Fernandes said that
08:06finally he's joined a big club?
08:08Is it Sunset Chelsea's or a small, tiny club?
08:13No, I think Ernesto Fernandes, he was already in a big club like Chelsea,
08:17and he's happy to be with us now.
08:19He's joined a bigger club, I think.
08:21Say again?
08:21Has he joined a bigger club?
08:23Is City?
08:27Is City sort of a bigger club than Chelsea?
08:31Again, I think Chelsea's a big club, and City's a big club.
08:34Just with regard to him on the pitch, will he have some sort of street-wiseness to your play?
08:39Do you understand what I mean?
08:40Street-wise, sort of a bit of...
08:42I don't know what you want to say, really.
08:43You know?
08:45I don't know if he says street-wise, but for sure, again, he knows how to win.
08:52And when you want to compete or you want to win, it's much more important when you have players
08:57that they know already how to do that than players that have never done in the past.
09:01Again, Enzo is not the only one.
09:03This squad has many players that they know how to win titles, how to compete, and this is what we
09:09were looking for.
09:11Thank you, everyone.
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