00:16Hi everyone, we will start with the broadcast section that's got no embargo, followed by
00:19an embargo section for 10.30pm tonight.
00:21No live tweeting during the broadcast section and use the microphone provided.
00:25As mentioned to the majority of you yesterday, we won't be accepting any questions about
00:28the case involving Man City in the Premier League, due to it being an ongoing legal process
00:32and our position throughout has been to not comment, that includes today.
00:36Michael.
00:36Hi Roberto, have you missed us?
00:38Yeah, a lot.
00:42Miki and Jan-Paul van Hecke suffered injuries with the Netherlands, are they out?
00:47And who else is also unavailable for tomorrow?
00:50No, they are available to play.
00:53Actually, Miki played four games, 90 minutes, around 90 minutes, and JP no.
01:00JP played just three games.
01:02The difference is this.
01:08JP yesterday wife, two twins, and promotional aspect that we have to consider also this one, but
01:18both are available to play.
01:23How difficult was it to finish the international break with a defeat?
01:27Or has it been good for you to maybe reset, recharge?
01:31How has it been for you over the last few weeks?
01:32No, it was difficult.
01:33It was very, very tough.
01:36Very, very tough, especially the first week.
01:39Yes, but this football is part of our real situation in this moment, and we have to react, to work,
01:50to go through this moment.
01:54Are you excited to be back though?
01:56Yes.
01:56Because you're ready, challenge, here we go, great match coming up, Man United, let's have it.
02:01Yes, I'm waiting this game for three weeks, because after the defeat at home against Aston Villa, personally I wanted
02:16to play the day after.
02:23Did the fact that you scored two goals against Aston Villa maybe give you enough reassurance that you may have
02:30fixed the issues of scoring goals that you'd had in the previous games?
02:41No, no, I think we created the chance enough to score many other goals in these seven games.
02:53We didn't, we are working to improve in the last third, the assistance, in the finishing.
03:05I think even this improvement, I think we had the qualities to score more goals.
03:15Anyway, the most important thing is to bring the ball in the goal area.
03:20In the goal area we went many, many times.
03:23We are fourth on the table, on the team who bring the ball many times.
03:31So it's nothing but, I think we arrived there, but we are not good enough so far to score.
03:43It goes when we have a clear chance.
03:47We talked a lot about the number 10 position.
03:51Is tomorrow the day we could see James Madison start?
03:53He's available, but he lost three or four days in the beginning, this week and the end of the last
04:02week.
04:04Like I said many times, James is a special player for us, as a player for sure, but also as
04:13a personality.
04:15But also Gallagher, I think he's playing well, especially in the last two games, Liverpool and Villa.
04:23And just lastly then, tomorrow for you as Tottenham manager now going into this game, does it feel like a
04:29very big game for the club?
04:31Yeah, because we are Tottenham.
04:34United Tottenham is still a big club in Premier League.
04:39And we have to deserve to work in this club, playing better and making different results.
04:56Can I ask you about Porro and Mudrik, how they are doing and also what was the issue with James
05:01Madison?
05:03No, Madison is the same problem and Porro, Pedro and Mudrik both are not available.
05:11I think Pedro is available for many times, many games, and for Mudrik maybe something more.
05:26You've seen that Dian Kulisiewski still seems to be training, is everything going well with him?
05:30He's working well, tomorrow comes with us, also Porro.
05:35I want all players tomorrow, tonight and tomorrow.
05:40But he's working very well.
05:44And I think he's an example for everyone, Deki Kulisiewski.
05:49Because, forget the player, but the example how he reacts to the injury,
05:57they react to the unlucky, the character he showed this time was an example, a reference for everyone.
06:07I know you're not putting any pressure on him, understandably, but how close do you think he is getting?
06:12Is he getting there almost to be in a matchday squad?
06:17For Deki? I don't know, I don't know.
06:20It's not just my responsibility, we are working together with the medical staff.
06:29They are working very well with him, they have done a special work.
06:36We have to analyse week by week.
06:43Hi Roberto, with James Madison, obviously he's been out such a long time.
06:48How frustrating are these little problems for him and I guess for you that he can't get a good block
06:52of training?
06:53I'm frustrated with him.
06:54Or both of you?
06:55Both, because he's a good guy.
06:57He suffered to stay not on the pitch to have an injury.
07:03Now it was not a big injury.
07:07Tomorrow he can play, but the Premier League is tough.
07:14Physically it's a very strong competition and you have to be fit in the right physical condition to compete, to
07:23run, to fight.
07:25Okay, he's a number 10, he's a different player, but I think he's working well and this is the way.
07:33The way is to complete three, four, five weeks in a row without problems, without feeling pain, without feeling problems.
07:43And then he's a normal player, he has nothing special, bad.
07:52And you've had a lot of players away, obviously on international duty, but quite a big chunk have still been
07:58here.
07:58And forward players, Dom Solanke, Savio, Kudos.
08:02How important has this period been for them to work with them?
08:05They work it very well.
08:06Also Tosin, Adebayorov, also Marcos, Senesi, Kudos, Savio, Dom Solanke.
08:20Conor Gallagher and Udoji as well.
08:24I consider this part of work with me, but I can't forget the players, national team.
08:33We are just one Tottenham.
08:37Nothing change if one player went to national team or another working with me.
08:43And just finally from me, Fernando?
08:46We have to consider the many games in a row.
08:53Robertson, Van de Ven, Betancourt, the trip of Betancourt.
08:58The decision of the first eleven is just for that.
09:06In the summer, it was quite well known that Tottenham and Man Utd both wanted to sign Fernandes and he
09:12picked Tottenham.
09:13He's obviously not played as a central midfielder yet, but how important was it that you signed him in the
09:19summer?
09:19And when do you think he will be ready to play as a centre?
09:22Fernandes is a great player.
09:24Maybe one of the best players in our team.
09:30He needs time to understand the club.
09:33He needs time to come inside well and better in the environment of Tottenham.
09:42But I have big confidence.
09:45He has to react.
09:46Live football is tough, it's difficult.
09:50And the most important thing is the reaction to go through the problems.
09:56And he doesn't start the game bad or worse than others.
10:03But even so well and he has to be stronger.
10:08He has all my confidence, all the confidence of the club.
10:15But he needs time and we have to give him time.
10:20Hi Roberto, I just want to take you back a few years if you don't mind.
10:24I believe that the 2006-07 season when you played for Napoli in City B, you were promoted.
10:32The one team to finish above you was Juventus.
10:34I just wondered what it was like to play against them.
10:37If you remember the reaction in Italy because they had been expelled from City R.
10:41The reaction in Italy at the time.
10:43And if the other clubs in Serie B felt aggrieved that a position had been taken away from them for
10:49promotion.
11:14Yeah, stop.
11:19What is the problem?
11:22What do you mean Manchester City?
11:24You want to arrive to Manchester City?
11:26How you felt as a player in that time?
11:28The players, listen, I was crazy as a player.
11:31I don't remember my thoughts.
11:33Just to think on the ball, just to think on our job.
11:43When you are a player, you don't think too much.
11:45When you are a coach, the same because the focus is on your player.
11:50Especially now because we are at the bottom of the table.
11:54I have no time to think to the other problems than my team, my club.
12:00But looking back, how do you think it affected Italian football?
12:11I think there are the people who they have to decide, take the decision with responsibility, with courage.
12:21Honestly, always.
12:23And it is not my job.
12:26My job is to be a coach.
12:32But I love respecting the rules, like all people in our club.
12:42Okay, we are going to end the broadcast section there and move on to the embargoed section for 10.30pm.
