Guardiola on Haaland and Rodri returns ahead of Wolves (Full Presser)

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on Haaland and Rodri returns ahead of Wolves  01/05/2025  CGA, Manchester, UK

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00:00Let's start with Stuart, please.

00:03Hi, Pep.

00:05Are there any new injury concerns in the squad

00:08and any news on the players who have obviously been missing for quite a while?

00:13No, no news.

00:16Wolves are obviously one of the most in-form sides in Europe, actually.

00:20Six successive Premier League wins.

00:22What do you make of the turnaround under Vito Pereira?

00:26The quality they have, the shape they play.

00:30The courage.

00:33It's no surprise.

00:34I think Wolves always had, in the last years, always have really, really good players.

00:39And now they have an incredible run.

00:42Quite similar when Newcastle came a month ago, when Aston Villa came.

00:47So, yeah.

00:50Another final for us.

00:51It's maybe the important game that we have ahead of us.

00:55Because it's very tight in the Premier League from third till sixth or seventh.

00:59So, I mean, how big for you are these final few games in the Premier League

01:03in the race for Champions League qualification?

01:07Yes, obviously.

01:08It's what we won.

01:09Four finals we have.

01:12And, yeah, and then go for the first one.

01:14Hi, Pep.

01:22Erling returned to training, full training this week.

01:25Is he going to be involved?

01:26It's getting better.

01:28It's getting better?

01:29Will he be involved?

01:30I don't think so.

01:31And four fan groups have written a letter addressed to yourself regarding ticket prices

01:39and season ticket availability.

01:42Have you seen that?

01:42And have you managed to take it up some stairs?

01:44I respond in the last weeks in the same issues, the same.

01:48So, they can express what they feel.

01:52It's a group for fans to go all together.

01:57And they have some issues that they won't express.

02:01So, the club is here.

02:02Always have been.

02:03Always will be open to listen to what they think.

02:09And they're planning a demonstration before the game tomorrow.

02:11What's your message to those fans?

02:13Come to help us.

02:16We need them.

02:17Because the fans won next season play the Champions League and be a better team

02:20like we have been in this competition, the Champions League this season,

02:25to try to be what we have done for many, many years the last years.

02:28So, we need them desperately.

02:31So, to come to help us since the first minute until the end.

02:34Just on the letter from the fans, there was a request in there

02:40if you could ask Ferran Soriano on their behalf to bring up the ticketing issues.

02:45Is that something you've been able to do?

02:50If I can help, I will help.

02:51Definitely.

02:52I'm part of this club.

02:53From the bottom and the top.

02:56So, but I'm the manager.

02:57I do what I have to do to try the team, play as best as possible.

03:02So, it's all that I can do.

03:06And just in the last day, too, seeing that Rodri stepped up his recovery,

03:09how encouraging is this?

03:11We are really pleased that Erling is back, that Rodri is back,

03:14and the training sessions.

03:16So, the moment the doctor, if I make a surgery,

03:19the moment the physician doctor said,

03:21Rodri can start to play minutes,

03:24and after that he will start to play minutes.

03:26But the doctors have to tell me.

03:28So, it was a difficult injury.

03:32It was the injury, the seven months to 11 months,

03:35more or less, the doctor said.

03:38He feels really good.

03:39Every day he's making sessions and sessions.

03:42But we have to avoid, to avoid,

03:45to make a step backwards and injure again.

03:49And that's why you have to be careful.

03:51What's important is one training session, another one,

03:54and every time he feels better, better.

03:56And when the doctor said,

03:58Rodri is stable and, you know, he can start to play,

04:02and after that he's going to come back.

04:05I guess, Pep, the fans will want to know

04:06when they're going to see him actually play again.

04:08Do you see him playing again in the Premier League this season

04:11or maybe the cup final, Rodri?

04:13I don't know.

04:14I always said, the doctor will tell me.

04:16But your gut feeling?

04:17I'm not a doctor.

04:18I'm guessing you'd like to see him

04:21because that would help him prepare maybe

04:24for the tournament in the summer in America

04:26if he could get game time between now and the end of the season.

04:29Listen, the most important thing is Wolves.

04:32And I have to select the best players to play against Wolves.

04:35And I have to have a long week to prepare against Southampton.

04:39This is only a concern I have.

04:40When the doctor said to me,

04:42the fish is not just for Rodri, for Merlin,

04:44for the other ones, can do it,

04:45I will start to think about it.

04:47Third place or FA Cup?

04:50If you had to choose, Wolves.

04:54You're very welcome.

04:55Does the lack of relegation threat to Wolves

04:59make this game less tricky or you don't think that?

05:05No, I'm pretty sure the Wolves players

05:08prefer to come here at the stadium being already safe

05:11that a month ago was in a difficult position

05:13than coming here to, you know,

05:17to already, yeah, I would prefer.

05:22And I'm sorry, but after what Lamini Amau did this week,

05:26it's impossible not to ask you about him.

05:28Everybody is shocked because of his quality.

05:32Could you watch him?

05:34The game?

05:34Yeah.

05:35Yeah.

05:35Are you surprised?

05:38I'm surprised how nice was the game.

05:41So thanks to this type of games,

05:43the stadiums never, ever will be empty.

05:47And our business will grow up.

05:49So I just can be grateful for the two semifinals

05:52because both were unbelievable,

05:56especially yesterday game.

05:58and so when you play like Barcelona play,

06:03the stadiums never, ever will be empty

06:05and we can live in that business

06:07for a long, long time.

06:09So it doesn't matter results.

06:10So how proud the people who love Barcelona we are,

06:14you know,

06:14and I think Inter

06:15prove again how

06:18when we won the Champions League

06:20against the in-oponema,

06:21we played and we face

06:22as incredible Inter

06:24how good the fans

06:25and the transitions

06:25and physicality

06:27and well-organized.

06:29Inzaghi is an unbelievable manager.

06:31So, yeah,

06:33it will be next Tuesday and Wednesday

06:34will be incredible.

06:35Two games.

06:36I think the fantastic four teams

06:38and they deserve to be there.

06:40Okay.

06:40So I'm back off the centre this evening.

06:42Show me where to start, please.

06:43Show me where to start, please.

06:44Show me where to start, please.

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