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00:00Hi everyone!
00:11If you have one, raise your hand and we'll come to you.
00:21If you're all ready, I'll go to Sam.
00:25Hi Sam.
00:27What do you make of the game? Is that a bit of a relief now just to get that second-plane Champions League sorted?
00:32Yes, that's what we wanted to achieve today.
00:34We had a few objectives, finishing second, finishing the Champions League spots
00:40and as well finishing the season in front of our people in the right manner with the right results.
00:45Those two things have been achieved.
00:47Obviously for the players and you need to break this summer,
00:50but for the rest of the club what needs to be done now?
00:53Well, first of all, we have one more game to play and to finish it in the right way.
00:58Winning in South London is going to be really important again.
01:01And then, yeah, go on holidays.
01:03Time to reset first, bring the temperature down a little bit.
01:07It's been a long, long season and start to think and reflect in everything that we have planned is the right one.
01:13Start to make some steps, some action and come back here fresh on day one, ready to go again.
01:19On the pitch to the supporters after the game, you seemed very emotional,
01:25it was a very powerful message that you gave.
01:29Can you talk about your emotions and what you've gone through this season
01:33and maybe some sense of disappointment but also optimism?
01:37It was emotional because of the way I feel.
01:40And it's great, we had a dream, I said it out there.
01:45It was to deliver a big trophy this season for our people
01:49and because I think that the team deserves it as well in the journey
01:52that we've been together in the last three, four years.
01:54We haven't achieved that and there are a lot of factors and a lot of situations
01:58that we've been through for the last nine and a half months for that not happening.
02:01But make sure that we are still valued.
02:06A lot of the incredible things this club is doing, the team is doing, the players are doing,
02:11the way we are competing and the consistency that we are showing.
02:15Because if we are not able to see that, that's a really, really dangerous thing to do.
02:20Just expecting just something and playing if we don't, that's a really dangerous thing.
02:26And I know they don't want us there where we are now, knocking on the door every year
02:31and make sure that we can see clarity.
02:33We will stay very disciplined and very clear and ambitious with what we want to do in the summer.
02:37What would be your overall thought and reflection upon the season when you consider that?
02:43When you talk about how you did out there, we must not be blurred in our vision.
02:48I would leave that for the summer.
02:50I've done it in the dressing room and for me it's very clear.
02:53But I'm there every day.
02:56I know what we've been through for nine and a half months.
02:58I know what we've done.
02:59I know very well the history of this Premier League and the teams that have been
03:03not in 30% of the situation that we've been in.
03:06They have collapsed, completely collapsed.
03:08And we haven't.
03:09And I really value that because that shows that we have built something
03:12that is very, very sustainable and consistent,
03:15regardless if some people don't like to see it.
03:18Simon, Stanley?
03:19Mikel, we heard from John O'Kromes before the game,
03:22the programme talking about the plan to invest this summer in the windows major trope.
03:26Do you feel going into that window you've got to vacuum from the owners that you need?
03:30Yeah, but that's not something new.
03:32I think they always back the team, the club, in the best possible way.
03:38And it's not going to be different in the summer.
03:40We have to be very smart with the decisions that we take.
03:42Obviously, we need players because the squad is really short.
03:45And on top of that, we are losing four or five players that are going to end contracts
03:49and the loans are finished.
03:51So we need to be sharp.
03:53Again, very disciplined in what we want to do.
03:56And make sure that we are stronger next season.
03:59Does the fact that you've now officially got that Champions League qualification mean
04:03you can literally tomorrow start executing that plan,
04:05because financially you don't know where you're going to do it?
04:07I mean, the plan is done and the time will be dictated by many parties,
04:11many circumstances that, unfortunately, we don't control.
04:14But we have great people in charge of that.
04:17And they're going to be leading that with the board and ownership.
04:21And as well, make sure that the ones that we have,
04:24they feel valued, they feel loved,
04:26make sure that they want to continue with us in the right manner.
04:29And then the whole environment that is excited, you know,
04:33that is not just about if we next, because we cannot start a season like that.
04:38And I want to feel that from day one.
04:40And I'm going to be very insistive on that.
04:45Is that an Italian man?
04:46Of course, injuries have been a massive part of the old season this time around.
04:50So you said on TV about injuries out on the teams,
04:53and the teams have been 16th and 17th in the...
04:56But not this season, eh?
04:57And in previous seasons, in the history,
04:59an eighth and fifth, missing one or two players only.
05:02So you said 16th and 17th, was that supposed to be United?
05:05No, no, no, no, that was in the past.
05:07In the past.
05:08And in the past, in five years ago, ten years ago,
05:11look in the memory and see what has happened in this league.
05:14Do you think next season, without injuries, obviously...
05:18I don't know.
05:19I don't know.
05:21I will try.
05:22When I can promise, I will do my very best.
05:24I will live my life here.
05:26I will give everything.
05:27I will get every drop of everybody there, squeeze it, to get the best.
05:31But promise, I cannot promise.
05:33I cannot promise.
05:34I cannot.
05:35Any manager is going to promise tomorrow.
05:36Next season, I'm going to win the Premier League or the Champions League.
05:38If I have to do that, I don't do it.
05:40Because I cannot promise anybody that.
05:42My best and the best of these players that are going to try and go mad chasing that,
05:46I guarantee you that that's going to happen.
05:49Tom from London.
05:50Yeah, it was a really special evening.
05:51I was very lucky to be there as well.
05:52And yeah, I do feel it.
05:53And we don't take it for granted.
05:54And we want to sustain that and give them joy.
05:55And I think it's a really special evening.
05:56I was very lucky to be there as well.
05:57And yeah, I do feel it.
05:58And we don't take it for granted.
05:59And we want to sustain that and give them joy.
06:00And then they can feel proud about this football team, the individuals, the values that we
06:03have as a football club and how we represent them.
06:06And in the meantime, I think the players can be in that room and hear that noise.
06:09Do you get the sense that those fans that were there so close do get the sense and have
06:11that belief that they will go again next season and be able to do it?
06:12Yeah, it was a really special evening.
06:13I was very lucky to be there as well.
06:14And yeah, I do feel it.
06:17And we don't take it for granted.
06:20And we want to sustain that and give them joy.
06:24And then they can feel proud about this football team, the individual, the values that
06:28we have as a football club and how we represent it.
06:31And then we win.
06:32And if we can achieve all of that in once, then great.
06:37When you talked about feeling the love from day one, have you sort of felt the need to
06:42maybe stress a bit of patience, get that message about patience and not get frustrated
06:47by finishing second but keeping everybody on board and looking at how far you come and
06:51look at it now?
06:53I don't know.
06:54I think it's now we finished second for the third season.
06:57In the last three seasons, there is one team that has been better than us in 12 points,
07:00which is Manchester City, which is the best team in the history of this league by a mile.
07:05And we are there.
07:06And Liverpool has a trophy.
07:07We don't have a trophy.
07:08We are in the Champions League semi-final for the last 16 years.
07:10And we are unsatisfied and upset.
07:13And it's not good enough.
07:15Great.
07:16Let's go for the next thing.
07:17But I think we're in the right trajectory, hopefully.
07:20OK, last couple.
07:21Phil from PA.
07:22Just sort of following off on that, do you feel that the fans are still 100 per cent behind
07:27you and this group of players?
07:30That's what I feel.
07:31But I don't know.
07:32The ones that I see every day in the street, the ones that they contact me, the ones that
07:37I see every day, I would say that 100 per cent.
07:40But they want more because we have set the expectations and they've seen the team that
07:45is capable against any opposition to compete against them.
07:49So we need to believe that we're going to do it together.
07:52And finally, Nick from Haters.
07:54I'm going to talk to your victory.
07:55You've made three significant substitutions with fight habits coming on here in Tierney
08:01and Jorginho.
08:02Just a word on those players in your thoughts.
08:05Well, the first one because of an injury of Willy.
08:08I think he felt something in his hamstring in the first half, unfortunately.
08:11So we had to make the substitution.
08:13And with the other two, Yekai, I mean, he's been incredibly fast in his recovery.
08:20I think the doctors were a bit easy too early, but he's been pushing it and he thought he
08:24could help the team and with Kieran as well.
08:27You know, he had a very special circumstances, the way he had to come back and settle in the
08:32team again after four months out.
08:34And he's been really good with the group and he has contributed.
08:37in every possible way to help us.
08:40And very grateful for that.
08:41And quite emotional for them as well, possibly their last games.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Yeah, we had a few in that dressing room that probably is going to be the last time that
08:50they put that shirt at the Emirates.
08:52So I've been there and make sure that we are close to them.
08:56And I'm very grateful to them as well.
08:57Okay, cool.
08:59Yeah.