Guardiola on Alvarez sale, Utd and returning City players
Guardiola on Alvarez sale, Utd and returning City players
09/08/2024
CGA, Manchester City Academy, Manchester, UK
09/08/2024
CGA, Manchester City Academy, Manchester, UK
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00:00The game against Manchester United, which didn't go so well, even though tomorrow is a pre-season game,
00:08how important is it to win the match?
00:12Yeah, it is. Good morning to everyone, nice to see you again.
00:17Yeah, it's important, it's a final against United,
00:22but a part of that is to try to refine ourselves, step by step,
00:29our break for most of the players and seeing the young players,
00:36how they behave in a big stage, in a good game.
00:41And yeah, we go for it.
00:43You obviously didn't have the players who played a long time at Copa America and at the Euros with you in the United States.
00:52How many of those players will be available for tomorrow?
00:56And also, bearing in mind your season with the Club World Cup is going to go 48 weeks,
01:03how hard is it going to be for the players and also to make sure that they get adequate rest
01:13to be able to get through what is going to be the most arduous season of all?
01:17We try to give them the best rest as much as possible.
01:23We would like to give them more time, but it is what it is.
01:27We gave them a lot.
01:29All the players came back and England players and Roderick will come back next week.
01:36So we would like to give them what it is.
01:41And about the schedule, it's better not to think about the schedule.
01:45Let's not see the picture.
01:47What's next?
01:49Training session and step by step.
01:53Otherwise, oh my God, what is going to happen?
01:56It's just step by step, next game, and try to be smart enough to train the right amount of time.
02:09Be fresh in your mind, rotate the players as much as possible, and game by game we'll see what happens.
02:18Pep, good afternoon.
02:20This week the club has agreed a fee with Atletico Madrid for Julian Alvarez.
02:24I guess it's a lot of money, but was it just too much to turn down?
02:28What are your thoughts on that potential deal?
02:33First of all, I want to say the gratitude from Julian.
02:37I've been two years here, we won everything together.
02:40His contribution has been massive.
02:42Being part of the Start XI and not being part sometimes in certain moments.
02:48It was incredible.
02:50He has incredible love with the team for his behaviour.
02:53But, like I said many, many times with the players, he wants to leave.
02:59He won a new challenge.
03:01Atletico Madrid is a top, top club in Spain, in Europe.
03:06And when they suggested me through the club that he wants to leave, I said, it's okay if he wants to leave.
03:14Imagine staying here when he doesn't want to stay.
03:17But at the same time, we have to reach an agreement with both clubs.
03:21It's happened, both clubs are happy.
03:23I wish him all the best.
03:25I'm looking forward to seeing him back, to say bye to all of us.
03:28And yeah, nothing more than that.
03:31So it was a joy to work with him.
03:33I learned a lot from him, because the manager learned a lot with the players.
03:38And hopefully he can find what he was looking for.
03:43I think you've said that you would only go into the transfer market to replace a first-team player.
03:49Does this count as replacing a first-team player?
03:51What are the chances that you do bring someone in to replace you?
03:54I don't know yet.
03:56We talk every day, we see what happens.
03:58I don't know yet.
03:59Can happen, can not happen.
04:01I don't know.
04:02Can I ask you just one final one?
04:03Because today Wayne Rooney has said that you're the very best candidate to be the next England manager.
04:09I know it's something you've spoken about before.
04:11But I wonder what would need to happen for you to even consider that as a next stage in your career,
04:17to be the manager of England?
04:19I have to decide what I want to do with my life.
04:22I want to continue here.
04:24I want to take a break.
04:25I want to be on national teams or not.
04:28So many things.
04:30But of course, right now is the way, because I'm here.
04:36And as much as you write the competition, my energy rises again.
04:43So I'm fully, I would say, excited for the season, because I see things that I like.
04:49And we'll see.
04:50It's a new challenge.
04:52Like you were able to break our own record.
04:55We broke the last season's record, never had done it before.
04:59And now we'll see.
05:00We'll see what is the ambition of ourselves.
05:04And looking forward, come back all together and restart and see how we behave every day.
05:11Hi Pep.
05:12Pep, the situation with Julian Alvarez, was it a conversation where he wanted to play more first-team football?
05:18I know he played a lot of football last season, but with Erling Haaland being fit every single week,
05:23it was going to be difficult to play possibly both of the players at the same time.
05:26Was that one of the reasons why he wanted the move?
05:29I don't know.
05:30I don't know the reason why.
05:31He said to me it was a new challenge.
05:33He feels that it's what he has to do.
05:37Last season he played a lot and in some moments played with Erling as well.
05:42But I understand in certain moments, important moments, maybe he thought he wasn't going to play.
05:47And I respect a lot.
05:48So the decisions of the players, I said many times, I'm a part of the club.
05:53I said to the club many times.
05:55At the end, the club has the end decision.
05:57But I'm not the person.
06:00I like to say to the players what they have to do.
06:03The contract is nice.
06:04You have a contract, but the contract can be broken.
06:08If you are not happy, why should you be here?
06:10You can be here.
06:11When you believe the happiness is around, it's around another corner, you have to go there to take a look.
06:16As much as they take an agreement with the clubs, it's not as simple as it looks like.
06:22I want to leave, I leave.
06:23No.
06:24You have to negotiate with the club because when we hire you, we negotiate with your former club.
06:29It's as simple as that.
06:30But it's the same.
06:32He believes his period here must be over.
06:37OK.
06:38So both clubs arrive in agreement and that's all.