Guardiola on City transfers, Walker exit and Brentford

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Guardiola on City transfers, Walker exit and Brentford  13/01/2025  CFGA, Manchester, UK

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00:00Good evening, guys, hope you're all staying proactive on either side,

00:06we'll set an embargo, partway through for 10.30 this evening.

00:09Start with Simon.

00:11Hi, Pep, just on Kyle Walker, is there any update at all,

00:17and is he going to be included in your squad for tomorrow?

00:20No, no news.

00:22Will he be in your squad tomorrow?

00:25We'll decide after training.

00:28If he doesn't play, who plays right back, Rico?

00:33I said what I said, I don't want to add anything else,

00:37I don't have any news, so he's Brentford in my mind.

00:41It was more to do with your squad and who plays in that position,

00:46but I take your point, you've won your last three games,

00:50you said before that you're not back, how far away are you?

00:56Do you think you've made progress over those three games?

01:00Well, of course, we won three games.

01:02Before it was impossible to win one, so now we won three,

01:06and that helped us, but the reality is we won a team the last game,

01:15for the difference of the Premier League and Ligue 1,

01:19and the budget for both teams, and for many reasons we should win.

01:24We did it quite well, but still we have to wait to see who we are,

01:31but of course the mood is better, and tomorrow we have an enormous,

01:36difficult game, what happened in the last seasons.

01:39Always the team with Thomas created a lot of problems,

01:43they are a fantastic, fantastic team,

01:45but at the same time we know what we're playing for.

01:51Hi Pep, only Liverpool have a better home record than Brentford,

01:55what makes them so difficult, particularly at home?

01:59A long, long time with Frank, with Thomas,

02:02and the set-pieces in high pressing are so aggressive,

02:09when defending they are so, so compact, but really, really tight,

02:14and the transitions are really, really dangerous,

02:19so it's many years already in the Premier League,

02:22doing really, really well, so that's the reason why the last game

02:27was not maybe the best result they had at home,

02:29but the trajectories in the last years have been really good.

02:35He's obviously done a very good job at Brentford,

02:39with respect to Brentford, do you think he could do well at a bigger club?

02:44Who?

02:45Thomas.

02:46Yeah, I said in the home game this season,

02:50I had the feeling that he's so happy there, he's comfortable,

02:55but I had the feeling all the time that sooner or later

02:59he would be appointed with a team to fight for the higher targets,

03:04and he would do it really well.

03:09In the middle there.

03:13Hi Pep, since we last spoke the club's agreed a fee with Lons for Abdou Kader Koussounov,

03:19what is it about him as a player that you like and want to bring in here?

03:29The club didn't announce anything.

03:33No, but the fee's been agreed with Lons for the player?

03:37I don't know.

03:42How many arrivals are you expecting as we say today, this month?

03:46I don't know, what I expect for the beginning of the season,

03:49the team, the squad will start back,

03:51I don't know, Rod is impossible, he's the only one,

03:53the other one's back, that's what I wanted.

03:56If it would have happened I would not have gone to the transfer window this season,

04:00absolutely not, and we would not be in the position that we are.

04:03But we struggled all the season, people say Roderick, Roderick, it's not just Roderick.

04:07We had a lot of problems, especially in back four, still we have,

04:11and that is the reason why the club is thinking,

04:14are we going to do this transfer or maybe in the summer?

04:18And again, the development since I last spoke to you about this,

04:21is that obviously what's happened with Kyle and potentially leaving,

04:24does that mean that defensive reinforcements for you become the priority this month?

04:30Where we are from the beginning of the season, it was back, in the middle,

04:35yeah, there's a position up front, we are more or less okay,

04:39but back all the season we struggled a lot.

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