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Interview with Manchester City star Bernardo Silva
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25/08/2023
Interview with Manchester City star Bernardo Silva after it was announced he had signed a new contract at the club until 2026
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00:00
Bernardo, a new contract, the City fans will be delighted with this news.
00:04
Are you happy?
00:05
Yes, I'm very happy.
00:07
And another season where we'll try to do as best as possible.
00:13
And we started well and let's keep going that way.
00:18
What are the factors that made you sign this new deal?
00:22
Well, it's been wanting to keep winning
00:28
because this team over the last...
00:32
I'm going for my seventh season at City and since I arrived,
00:37
I just remember one season where we weren't successful.
00:41
So to be here until now meant trophies, meant winning a lot.
00:49
And I like to win.
00:51
It's good to win.
00:52
It's not easy.
00:53
So to be in a winning team, it's a very good feeling
00:58
and I wanted to keep it that way.
01:01
You joined City as a 22-year-old.
01:04
You're now 29.
01:05
How do you assess the time that you've spent here?
01:09
Well, so as I was saying, seventh season, playing for Man City now.
01:16
And it's been a dream in terms of what we achieved,
01:22
in terms of the prospects of what we can still do.
01:27
Six years where we won five Premier Leagues,
01:32
one Champions League and all the Cups.
01:35
I couldn't have imagined it better, to be honest.
01:39
You've got a really good relationship with the Manchester City fans.
01:43
Has that been an aspect of the reason you've decided to stay for longer?
01:47
Obviously the way that they treat me and they help me, it's a motivation.
01:55
So since day one, the way this, not just inside the club,
02:00
but the way the fans, they showed their support and their love for me.
02:07
It's of course a big factor when you make a decision.
02:12
Whenever we talk to City players,
02:14
they always tell us that the club provide them with everything they need
02:18
to be the best that they can be.
02:20
Just kind of expand on that a little bit.
02:22
What is it that the club do to provide you with the conditions
02:25
to perform at your optimum all the time?
02:28
Well, I think the club, they created an apartment
02:32
where basically you don't have to think about anything else apart from football.
02:37
So when you arrive at the club, they'll help you find a house,
02:41
they'll help you find a car, they'll help you, whatever.
02:43
With the bills of electricity, water, whatever you need.
02:48
And especially when you're alone, it helps you a lot
02:53
because then you just focus on the important part of your work,
02:57
which is to perform.
02:59
So yeah, I think the club has been doing a great job
03:04
in helping all the players and supporting them.
03:07
So they just have to focus on their football.
03:11
Let's reflect on the treble of last season.
03:14
It's the ultimate achievement in football.
03:17
This is a very special group of players, isn't it?
03:20
Well, yes, if you look at the history and you see that in England,
03:26
it was only the second time that someone did it,
03:29
it means that it's so, so difficult.
03:32
So what we achieved last season and what we can achieve this season,
03:39
it's something unique and we're going to try and grab that opportunity again this season.
03:46
Surely now there can be no doubts that this team is one of the greatest
03:50
in the history of English football, but maybe football worldwide.
03:55
Would you agree with that?
03:57
Well, I'm just 29 years old, so I don't remember all the teams that played in England.
04:03
But from what I remember, when you see a team that wins five in six
04:09
and that now has won the Champions League,
04:12
which everyone was saying was the missing piece,
04:16
that makes us probably one of the best, for sure, if not the best.
04:22
We heard that four in a row in the Premier League was never done before.
04:26
So we want to try that because it's so tough.
04:31
People now take it for granted because we won five in six,
04:35
but it's so, so tough every year.
04:38
And if you guys remember, two of those were just for the difference of one point.
04:45
And on the last game, I remember the Aston Villa game when we were losing 2-0,
04:51
minute 65 or 70, I don't remember.
04:54
So it's not easy to win it.
04:56
And we're going to try and keep making history
05:01
and putting the name of this team as one of the best ever.
05:07
Of course, that means something for us.
05:09
The Real Madrid game at the Etihad last season in the Champions League
05:13
was probably as close to a perfect performance
05:17
I think I've ever seen a Manchester City team put in.
05:20
And obviously you scored twice that night.
05:23
Where does that night for you rank in terms of your favourite nights at the Etihad?
05:30
Definitely top three, but if not the first one.
05:33
But I think not just the Real Madrid game.
05:36
If you look at the big games at home last season,
05:41
it was the season where we felt more, let's say,
05:47
indestructible when we were playing at home,
05:50
because all the games, if you look, Man United, we won 6-3,
05:56
then Liverpool 4-1, then Arsenal 3-1, I don't remember, 4-1.
06:04
Bayern Munich quarter-final 3-0, Madrid.
06:08
So all the big games when we needed the support from the fans and they showed up.
06:16
And we answered back with a very good performance
06:20
and we felt really, really strong at home.
06:24
And that was probably one of my favourite games ever in my career, yes,
06:28
because in the semi-finals of the Champions League,
06:31
you know that you have an opportunity to play another final
06:34
and to win the trophy that this club was missing
06:38
and to perform the way that we did that night was just unbelievable.
06:43
There's world-class players in every position at City,
06:46
everybody knows that, but more than that,
06:48
the manager has created a kind of special feeling among the squad
06:53
and the football club at large, actually.
06:55
Just explain to us what it's like to be a player as part of this group.
07:01
There's a real good energy around the dressing room, isn't there?
07:04
Well, yes, and that comes with winning as well,
07:07
because when you win, everything is easier.
07:10
If you don't win, people normally in life and in football
07:16
start creating little problems even when they don't exist,
07:18
so winning helps.
07:20
But also the fact that you have the feeling in this team
07:24
that we don't depend on one or two players,
07:28
everyone is so, so important.
07:31
And you see that when big players are injured
07:35
and supposedly the most important players of the team,
07:38
when they cannot play and the team still performs.
07:42
So everyone feels useful,
07:45
everyone feels that they can help this team achieve the next step,
07:51
and that creates a good energy in the dressing room as well.
07:55
Last season was really tough mentally and physically.
07:58
Do you now feel refreshed and ready for a new season
08:01
after the break that you've had?
08:02
Well, yes, definitely.
08:05
It's not easy.
08:07
I'm not going to lie to you with this busy schedule
08:10
that we have nowadays,
08:13
because you play every three days for almost a year,
08:18
and the last years with COVID
08:21
and with the World Cup in the middle of the season
08:25
and with everything being delayed
08:26
or played in different schedules with new competitions.
08:35
We don't have much time to rest,
08:36
but we're getting used to it now.
08:38
I'm not saying that it's ideal,
08:40
but it's the same for everyone.
08:42
And we're ready for a new season, yeah.
08:46
How do we ensure that we stay at the top?
08:49
Because as Pep said last week,
08:51
everybody now is going to want to beat us.
08:53
What can we do to ensure that we stay the best?
08:58
Well, I just think focusing on ourselves.
09:00
Obviously, the other teams,
09:02
they will try and find new ways of beating us
09:07
because we've won so much in the last few years.
09:09
So they will try to improve their teams.
09:11
They will try to do their best.
09:13
And we just have to focus on ourselves.
09:15
That's the main thing.
09:17
That's the only thing that we can control.
09:19
So try to...
09:23
I always feel that more than improve
09:27
the things that you're not very good at,
09:30
I think that we have to keep doing well
09:33
the things that we did very well last season.
09:36
So maintain that level,
09:38
maintain as well the ambition,
09:42
because that's the most important thing,
09:45
because the quality is still here.
09:47
The team is almost the same.
09:50
So if the younger levels are still the same,
09:55
the chances of us winning again are high,
09:58
knowing that our rivals are better this season.
10:02
But yeah, we can do it.
10:05
You mentioned before about the four titles in a row.
10:08
No one's ever done that in the history of English football.
10:11
That would be seriously new ground broken.
10:16
Is that an extra motivation for you guys?
10:18
I know you guys are motivated to win anyway,
10:21
but that would be a really significant piece of history,
10:24
wouldn't it?
10:26
Well, yes, of course.
10:27
When you think that no one ever did it before,
10:31
if you do it, it always makes you feel a bit more special
10:38
in terms of we created something in history.
10:42
And if we do it,
10:46
it's not going to be easy for anyone else to do it again,
10:49
because this country,
10:52
the amount of teams that fight for this title every year,
10:56
it's just ridiculous.
10:57
It doesn't happen anywhere else.
11:00
And yeah, we're very motivated to achieve that.
11:06
We've signed Kovacic and Vardy all.
11:08
What are your early impressions of those guys
11:10
and what can they bring to this squad?
11:12
Well, Kovacic was a player that I knew
11:16
and that I know very well from the last years,
11:19
because he's a bit older and he's more experienced.
11:24
So I already knew that a big, big player
11:29
and someone that could help us a lot was coming.
11:33
So no surprises in terms of how good he is,
11:37
because I think that everyone knew.
11:39
In terms of Guardiola,
11:40
a young guy that personally I didn't know very well.
11:44
I watched a few games in the World Cup from Croatia.
11:46
We played against Leipzig.
11:48
So we watched some of their games
11:52
and against us he scored the goal.
11:54
But very impressive.
11:56
Good attitude, good spirit
11:59
and obviously the quality is there.
12:00
So we're going to try and help him to develop a lot
12:05
and to help this team with many, many things.
12:07
And one final question.
12:09
Our fans are always asking us how John, your dog, is.
12:12
Not yet, because we're going to have my wife.
12:15
She's there to have the baby in about two weeks.
12:20
So they're only going to come back to Manchester in October,
12:23
but he's very well. Thank you.
12:24
Good stuff.
12:25
Congratulations on your new deal, Bernardo,
12:27
and good luck with this season.
12:28
Thank you.
12:28
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