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Guardiola on Haaland and Rodri returns ahead of Wolves (Full Presser)
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01/05/2025
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on Haaland and Rodri returns ahead of Wolves
01/05/2025
CGA, Manchester, UK
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00:00
Let's start with Stuart, please.
00:03
Hi, Pep.
00:05
Are there any new injury concerns in the squad
00:08
and any news on the players who have obviously been missing for quite a while?
00:13
No, no news.
00:16
Wolves are obviously one of the most in-form sides in Europe, actually.
00:20
Six successive Premier League wins.
00:22
What do you make of the turnaround under Vito Pereira?
00:26
The quality they have, the shape they play.
00:30
The courage.
00:33
It's no surprise.
00:34
I think Wolves always had, in the last years, always have really, really good players.
00:39
And now they have an incredible run.
00:42
Quite similar when Newcastle came a month ago, when Aston Villa came.
00:47
So, yeah.
00:50
Another final for us.
00:51
It's maybe the important game that we have ahead of us.
00:55
Because it's very tight in the Premier League from third till sixth or seventh.
00:59
So, I mean, how big for you are these final few games in the Premier League
01:03
in the race for Champions League qualification?
01:07
Yes, obviously.
01:08
It's what we won.
01:09
Four finals we have.
01:12
And, yeah, and then go for the first one.
01:14
Hi, Pep.
01:22
Erling returned to training, full training this week.
01:25
Is he going to be involved?
01:26
It's getting better.
01:28
It's getting better?
01:29
Will he be involved?
01:30
I don't think so.
01:31
And four fan groups have written a letter addressed to yourself regarding ticket prices
01:39
and season ticket availability.
01:42
Have you seen that?
01:42
And have you managed to take it up some stairs?
01:44
I respond in the last weeks in the same issues, the same.
01:48
So, they can express what they feel.
01:52
It's a group for fans to go all together.
01:57
And they have some issues that they won't express.
02:01
So, the club is here.
02:02
Always have been.
02:03
Always will be open to listen to what they think.
02:09
And they're planning a demonstration before the game tomorrow.
02:11
What's your message to those fans?
02:13
Come to help us.
02:16
We need them.
02:17
Because the fans won next season play the Champions League and be a better team
02:20
like we have been in this competition, the Champions League this season,
02:25
to try to be what we have done for many, many years the last years.
02:28
So, we need them desperately.
02:31
So, to come to help us since the first minute until the end.
02:34
Just on the letter from the fans, there was a request in there
02:40
if you could ask Ferran Soriano on their behalf to bring up the ticketing issues.
02:45
Is that something you've been able to do?
02:50
If I can help, I will help.
02:51
Definitely.
02:52
I'm part of this club.
02:53
From the bottom and the top.
02:56
So, but I'm the manager.
02:57
I do what I have to do to try the team, play as best as possible.
03:02
So, it's all that I can do.
03:06
And just in the last day, too, seeing that Rodri stepped up his recovery,
03:09
how encouraging is this?
03:11
We are really pleased that Erling is back, that Rodri is back,
03:14
and the training sessions.
03:16
So, the moment the doctor, if I make a surgery,
03:19
the moment the physician doctor said,
03:21
Rodri can start to play minutes,
03:24
and after that he will start to play minutes.
03:26
But the doctors have to tell me.
03:28
So, it was a difficult injury.
03:32
It was the injury, the seven months to 11 months,
03:35
more or less, the doctor said.
03:38
He feels really good.
03:39
Every day he's making sessions and sessions.
03:42
But we have to avoid, to avoid,
03:45
to make a step backwards and injure again.
03:49
And that's why you have to be careful.
03:51
What's important is one training session, another one,
03:54
and every time he feels better, better.
03:56
And when the doctor said,
03:58
Rodri is stable and, you know, he can start to play,
04:02
and after that he's going to come back.
04:05
I guess, Pep, the fans will want to know
04:06
when they're going to see him actually play again.
04:08
Do you see him playing again in the Premier League this season
04:11
or maybe the cup final, Rodri?
04:13
I don't know.
04:14
I always said, the doctor will tell me.
04:16
But your gut feeling?
04:17
I'm not a doctor.
04:18
I'm guessing you'd like to see him
04:21
because that would help him prepare maybe
04:24
for the tournament in the summer in America
04:26
if he could get game time between now and the end of the season.
04:29
Listen, the most important thing is Wolves.
04:32
And I have to select the best players to play against Wolves.
04:35
And I have to have a long week to prepare against Southampton.
04:39
This is only a concern I have.
04:40
When the doctor said to me,
04:42
the fish is not just for Rodri, for Merlin,
04:44
for the other ones, can do it,
04:45
I will start to think about it.
04:47
Third place or FA Cup?
04:50
If you had to choose, Wolves.
04:54
You're very welcome.
04:55
Does the lack of relegation threat to Wolves
04:59
make this game less tricky or you don't think that?
05:05
No, I'm pretty sure the Wolves players
05:08
prefer to come here at the stadium being already safe
05:11
that a month ago was in a difficult position
05:13
than coming here to, you know,
05:17
to already, yeah, I would prefer.
05:22
And I'm sorry, but after what Lamini Amau did this week,
05:26
it's impossible not to ask you about him.
05:28
Everybody is shocked because of his quality.
05:32
Could you watch him?
05:34
The game?
05:34
Yeah.
05:35
Yeah.
05:35
Are you surprised?
05:38
I'm surprised how nice was the game.
05:41
So thanks to this type of games,
05:43
the stadiums never, ever will be empty.
05:47
And our business will grow up.
05:49
So I just can be grateful for the two semifinals
05:52
because both were unbelievable,
05:56
especially yesterday game.
05:58
and so when you play like Barcelona play,
06:03
the stadiums never, ever will be empty
06:05
and we can live in that business
06:07
for a long, long time.
06:09
So it doesn't matter results.
06:10
So how proud the people who love Barcelona we are,
06:14
you know,
06:14
and I think Inter
06:15
prove again how
06:18
when we won the Champions League
06:20
against the in-oponema,
06:21
we played and we face
06:22
as incredible Inter
06:24
how good the fans
06:25
and the transitions
06:25
and physicality
06:27
and well-organized.
06:29
Inzaghi is an unbelievable manager.
06:31
So, yeah,
06:33
it will be next Tuesday and Wednesday
06:34
will be incredible.
06:35
Two games.
06:36
I think the fantastic four teams
06:38
and they deserve to be there.
06:40
Okay.
06:40
So I'm back off the centre this evening.
06:42
Show me where to start, please.
06:43
Show me where to start, please.
06:44
Show me where to start, please.
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