Guardiola on Oscar Bobb's return, injuries and Salford City Fa Cup tie

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Guardiola on Oscar Bobb's return, injuries and Salford City Fa Cup tie  10/01/2025  CFGA, Manchester, Uk

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00:00Afternoon, guys, hope you're well, same process as ever, mics on either side,

00:08we'll set an embargo halfway through for 10.30 this evening.

00:12That would be our place.

00:14Good afternoon, Pep. Can I take a check on your team news, first of all?

00:19Obviously you were hoping, I think, to have the likes of Ruben Diaz back around this time,

00:24talk that maybe Oscar Bob could have been back around this time, where are you up to?

00:27Not yet, he's feeling better, but he's not yet ready.

00:30I don't know when, no.

00:32Is Bob back on the grass yet?

00:34Yeah, he's training already with the team, partial, it's good news for us.

00:37So when would you expect to have him back?

00:39I don't know, but he's not muscular, it was a bone fracture,

00:45and one is already fixed, so it's fine, so now he's in good condition,

00:49but it's good news that he's back.

00:51Can I ask you about the transfer window being opened,

00:53because it sounds like the club...

00:55You're going to ask me about that, because I'm not going in.

00:57I know all the month you're going to ask me the same,

00:59about all you are linking in the media, so I'm not going to talk.

01:04You can insist, I'm not going to answer, because I don't know the situation.

01:07We know that we should not go to the transfer window, I don't like much.

01:12If the situation would happen that season, with many, many, many injuries,

01:18and we have to try to do it, because the situation is what it is.

01:25But what happened, I'm not going to talk, because I don't know.

01:31Of course I have conversations with the club, but with the process that happened,

01:35I don't know if it's going to happen, because it's so difficult.

01:38If it's going to happen, it's going to happen, otherwise I cannot say anything else.

01:43It sounds like, certainly from one of the players linked, Omar Mahmoud,

01:48that he's keen on a move here.

01:50What's attracted you as a club to Sampdoria?

01:53I was not clear on my answer.

01:55I thought we should do a bit of a dance anyway.

01:57Come on.

01:59I was clear in my answer, I'm not going to talk.

02:01He's a player for another club, I'm not going to say an answer.

02:03You can say every single press conference talk about the transfer window until the end.

02:08I'm not going to answer one question.

02:10Don't go in that way.

02:12In the past it happened the same.

02:14I was clear, right?

02:16Yeah, and I've also sat here and done this as well.

02:18Listen, you can try it.

02:20You can try it any time you want.

02:22No problem at all, but you know my answer.

02:24We will know my answer.

02:26Hi, Pep.

02:28Erling Haaland's played the most minutes of any Manchester City player this season.

02:32Could this weekend be a chance for a rest for him?

02:34You will see tomorrow.

02:36Do you think he needs one?

02:38He feels good.

02:41He feels good.

02:43We have some niggles in the first day,

02:45but we have seven days.

02:47We must come to Salford

02:49and recover well.

02:51In the situation that we have,

02:53we need everyone ready

02:55to go through.

02:57And what do you know about Salford City

02:59and of course the class of 92's involvement as well?

03:01Well, I'm living in Salford

03:03for the last eight years.

03:05So I will play against my neighbourhood.

03:07So my home town,

03:09you know where I'm living.

03:11So a lot of respect for the manager.

03:13We played years ago.

03:15He was in Oxford and was assistant coach

03:17for Sam Allardyce when he played in Leeds.

03:19And the last six games,

03:21six clean sheets, six victories.

03:23So huge respect for them, what they do,

03:25the intensity.

03:29And yeah, take it seriously, of course,

03:31like all we have done in this club

03:33since I arrived.

03:35And hopefully we can do a good game

03:37with three victories in a row.

03:39A long time didn't happen.

03:41And in maybe a future life when you're not a manager,

03:43would you ever consider buying a football club?

03:45No.

03:47Why?

03:49Because I'm not good at that.

03:51I'm sometimes a good manager.

03:53But as a businessman, I'm not good.

03:55So I'm not absolutely interested in that.

03:59Just on Salford's Manchester United connections,

04:01how much extra spice does that add to this tie?

04:04Well, they won a lot of titles.

04:06The generation of players,

04:08they won a lot of money.

04:10They can buy teams.

04:12So that's good.

04:14Yeah, it's good.

04:16I'm...

04:18So I think...

04:20So Gary Neville

04:22or David Beckham,

04:24I don't know if the players are involved.

04:26But they are smart people.

04:28I'm pretty sure of that.

04:30And when the people from football

04:32or run football clubs

04:34always take smart decisions.

04:36And of course.

04:38So if they decide, it's fine.

04:40How good would it be for the Manchester area

04:42to have another team rising through the leaves?

04:46Yeah, they're in League 2 now.

04:48I'm pretty sure

04:50they want to do

04:52like Stoke-Port

04:54and many clubs of that,

04:56that they want to

04:58rise.

05:00Of course,

05:02it's a tie because they like it.

05:04It's part of business.

05:06The higher you are as a club,

05:08the better the perspective will be.

05:10And just to check on another couple of players,

05:12John Stones and Ederson, are they...?

05:14Ederson is fine.

05:16And John Stones, no.

05:18Hi.

05:20Back on Haaland's minutes,

05:22is this an even more impressive number

05:24from him this season,

05:26even above the goal numbers?

05:29Enormous quality news, isn't it?

05:31Erling has since arrived.

05:35The year before he arrived here,

05:37already three or four years ago,

05:39so had the problems in Dortmund

05:41the last year, in playing.

05:43But since he arrived,

05:45always except one period a little bit.

05:47The other was so consistent in terms of injury,

05:49his feet.

05:51And I think the year of the travel was amazing.

05:53Last season he scored a goal

05:55but was struggling a little bit.

05:57And this season I had the feeling

05:59that he's incredibly focused.

06:01And that's why when we are focused

06:03and your target is to be fit,

06:05always you are fit.

06:07Like I said before, it's a big body.

06:09He needs sometimes extra care.

06:11How much into detail can you see him

06:13taking care of his life as well?

06:15We have a personnel with Mario.

06:17Our physio takes care of him really well

06:19and spends a lot of time here.

06:21So that's why

06:23he's always ready to...

06:25Sometimes, of course,

06:27you cannot perform all the time

06:29with the amount of games at the same level.

06:31But the injuries that we have up front,

06:33Lophiel can play there,

06:35Oskar can play there,

06:37Maka can play there.

06:39And at the end,

06:41with this amount of situations,

06:43we should use him

06:45maybe more than the spec,

06:47but he handles it really well.

06:49Can I just double-check

06:51after West Ham in the press conference

06:54when you were talking about

06:56collectively trying to turn

06:58the bad moment around,

07:00you said almost all your players wanted to do it.

07:02Did you mean to say almost?

07:04Sorry?

07:06After West Ham, when you were talking about

07:08Man City trying to turn the bad moment around,

07:10you said almost all my players.

07:12I don't know if you meant to say almost.

07:14I don't remember that.

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