00:07Good afternoon.
00:13We didn't see Bradley Parkler training yesterday, no Munoz either.
00:17Are either of them available this weekend?
00:19What's the situation regarding injuries at the moment?
00:21Yes, Bradley has trained today normally, he's fine, no problem.
00:26It was just a matter of, sometimes you have to deal with the load,
00:33and we consider sometimes they have to stay inside, but he's fine.
00:37Victor, he has the knock, he received against Brent for the first half.
00:43He could finish the game very well, but he's dealing with some pain since then,
00:51and it was too early, the day against Villarreal, and I don't know if he's going to arrive.
00:58I think it's going to be difficult, but I really don't know.
01:03Obviously, it's easy for us to say, given Rio's performance the other night,
01:07he needs to start again, but you also said that given his age,
01:11there will be highs and lows at times as well.
01:12So what do you exactly have to weigh up when deciding whether to let it go again,
01:17or whether you need to lessen his workload once or not?
01:20No, not with Rio, not with everyone.
01:24It's about feeling how they are.
01:27We are changing a lot of the team because we are playing basically every three or four days,
01:34so sometimes the players are tired or there is more risk involved,
01:39and we are deciding to give more rest or to use more fresh legs when we decide,
01:47and it's going to continue to be the same against Brighton, against Chelsea, against Arsenal, against Arsenal,
01:52because this doesn't stop, so we have to continue.
01:55And I'm happy because we are kind of changing a little bit the team, giving some rest,
02:00and I think overall they are answering well, the players.
02:03We're not seeing any tightness in Rio at the moment?
02:05No, obviously he finished tired the other day, but it's normal.
02:09I want all the players to finish tired all the games, you know,
02:12because it means that they've given everything, yes.
02:15But also in the forward positions, normally I sub all the wingers and the strikers and the forwards,
02:26most of the times they will not finish the game.
02:28So it's a matter of giving everything you have.
02:30Sometimes it's going to be 45, sometimes 70, sometimes 90 if you are at your best,
02:36but most of the times we change the forward positions.
02:40Obviously, again, you're playing a side that's above you in the Premier League so you can close that gap.
02:44They are in the Champions League spots.
02:46So do you see them as rivals across the season now for a top four, top five finish?
02:50Or are they even contenders for the title this season?
02:53I think they are doing incredibly well.
02:56They deserve all the praise they are getting and I think there is little doubt there.
03:03I think it's a team that is very well coached already.
03:07I think it's the first season of Fabian.
03:12They are very good in every phase of the game.
03:14Without the ball they are for me one of the best teams.
03:18And obviously with the ball also they have good quality and we have to be at our very best
03:22to beat Brighton because now they are with confidence.
03:26But I also see my team in a good place.
03:31What kind of game do you expect from them?
03:33Two teams high press in and out of possession?
03:36It could be an entertaining one for the neutrals under.
03:39Yes, probably not as different as the one we played against Villarreal.
03:42A team that also wants to press, wants to keep the ball very good technically.
03:47They control well all the phases.
03:52So you never know after we say this and after it's a 0-0 and nothing happens.
03:57But I think both teams will try to control the game, will try to press,
04:02will try to win our duels and it's going to be a big challenge.
04:05Yes.
04:06You're chasing that first league win at home, which seems crazy for us to even say
04:11given the fact you've lost once all season in a competition.
04:14Is that something you're conscious of and something you're keen to put to them?
04:19I want to win games.
04:20At home, away, we need points wherever we can get them.
04:26It's true that I think in the league, the three games we haven't won,
04:31but also our three games that for me have been high-level games,
04:35Atletico Madrid, Villarreal, Spurs, we've won them and we've had good performances at home also.
04:42I think now we play at home, we are going to also play at home the next two games,
04:48so I would love to win them.
04:50But if we were playing away, I would say the same.
04:53You love score goals.
04:55I love your reaction whenever you score goals.
04:57You see how much that means to you.
04:59There was one in the week that you went over to Alex and celebrated briefly together.
05:04Has Liverpool started to get a hold of you?
05:07You've talked about your affection for the clubs that you've managed so frequently.
05:11Has it started to get a grip of you and you started to realise just how special this football club
05:17is?
05:18Yes, I know this club is very special.
05:21I knew it before I was in other clubs.
05:25The thing is, when you arrive to a place like this, you need good performances,
05:33you need a lot of goals, you need to feel like you've earned the right now to feel these things
05:43inside.
05:45Goals, wins, moments like the other day obviously help a lot, help me personally,
05:50and they make you feel like there is something special also going on.
05:58I spoke to Luis Kubas yesterday who was full of praise for Rio and for Trey as well.
06:03How beneficial is it for you and for them that they are sort of coming through,
06:07breaking through to the first team all at the same time?
06:09I think they are supporting each other.
06:13You can feel it straight away, even in pre-season, the ones who played the games,
06:19you can feel like after their performances they were looking at each other, praising each other.
06:25When they see one of them getting a start in the Champions League or getting a start in the Premier
06:30League,
06:31maybe it is not themselves but they feel like I am close to being there.
06:37I think it is something that is going to be good for them and also good for the ones that
06:43are now in the second team,
06:44looking and have played with them and for sure they are texting them and they are sending messages.
06:49I think this is a good feeling, yes.
06:51Luis spoke about wanting to learn from Alexander Isak being one of the very best around.
06:56I just wonder how much importance do you place on Alexander Isak,
07:00maybe helping out Luis Kubas on the training ground and things like that?
07:03I think they have to use all the help from the coaches, from the players.
07:09They are lucky now that we have good references.
07:13I suppose every defender goes to Virgil and whatever Virgil says,
07:19I think you have to take it and consider it and learn from that.
07:23And with Alex, with every experienced player that we have,
07:27I think they have to get what they see training, what they act, what they do
07:32and also what they can advise them, yes.
07:57I think every player has to focus on performances, on keeping doing well,
08:05improve the things that he can improve.
08:08The outside noise, when it's good, when it's bad, I think it affects obviously.
08:14But we have to do that for not to be affected by those things.
08:18It's like you continue to do your job as good as you can,
08:22try to improve the things that you can improve and don't be too affected
08:27from the things that you can hear.
08:30When you do well, they are going to praise you.
08:31When you do bad, there are going to be critics.
08:34But don't let those things affect too much the performance.
08:37That is at the end the most important thing.
08:39I think.
08:57No, we cannot allow ourselves the way we want to play.
09:05You cannot play 70%.
09:08Because imagine you don't have, I don't know, I am a right winger.
09:12We don't have a right winger on the bench.
09:13I will put someone as a right winger.
09:16I prefer to do this, that you save your energy so you have to last 90 minutes.
09:20Give everything, 65, 65, 72, 72.
09:23Then someone will do the 18, the 25, whatever.
09:26It's because we need to play full gas.
09:30Otherwise, I would like to say, no, we are good enough to play 70% and win games,
09:34but we have to play to our very best because the teams we have in front also are very good.
10:02I think it's another of the kind of leaders we have, no?
10:06I think he has a lot of experience, still not being as old.
10:10But I think he's been involved in top-level games.
10:14He has won big titles club-wise, national team-wise, and he's been really good.
10:21He arrived the last one, I think, with Viktor.
10:25Even Viktor arrived a little bit earlier than him.
10:28But after 2-3 weeks, he went in a great form and I think he's performing consistently well.
10:36Sometimes you play well and then you play the next one not so well.
10:39But I think Alex is now in a place where he has been consistently playing well.
10:44And I hope he can stay there because it's going to be easier for us, yes.
10:49Just in terms of Dom, is he out this weekend?
10:53Yes.
10:55Dom is going to be out this weekend.
10:57I don't think it's far.
10:59I don't think it's far, but he hasn't trained with the group still.
11:01And also considering that the other day we started him and he had to go out,
11:09we will probably take one or two days more than we would last week.
11:15And now it's in a good place.
11:18Dom is already training outside alone and he's going to train with the group,
11:22but he's not ready for this one.
11:25Hi, Daniel.
11:26I wanted to ask you about Brian Gravenberg.
11:28When he made his breakthroughs a little bit, it was just the deepest lie in the field.
11:33He started the season under you playing in that position,
11:36but more recently he's been moved a little bit further forward.
11:39And obviously against Villarreal he was in that right-back hybrid bit at the end.
11:43What's yours thinking behind moving him a little bit further forward?
11:46Do you think he's found a home under your system as you?
11:50I think if you ask me what is the position that I feel like it suits better to him,
11:56I think he's like a number eight for me.
11:59But he's a player that can do a job obviously because we've seen it as a number six.
12:06He won the league playing there.
12:09I think he can do a job playing as a right-back like the other day.
12:13In certain scenarios it probably is going to cost him, but as a ten also I think he can do
12:17a job.
12:19He has played also, we haven't tried ourselves, but as a centre-back in certain moments he could do a
12:26job.
12:27So for me it's very valuable.
12:29This versatility in the players is very valuable because in this schedule we have you are going to need help
12:36somewhere always.
12:37Because now he's in the right-back position.
12:39We lost three points and obviously we have the situation with Conor Bradley.
12:45But in three months he can be in another position.
12:48And to have players like Ryan that I'm comfortable putting in three or four different positions for me is a
12:54big help.
12:57Yes, thank you.
