24-25 Premier League Preview - Opening Gameday
Hear from the managers ahead of the opening week of the 24-25 Premier League season including Pep Guardiola and Enzo Maresca ahead of Manchester City's clash with Chelsea
Various Locations, UK
Various Locations, UK
Transcript
00:00Give him time. If they accept my advice for the owners from Chassis, give him time and
00:14it will work. All the managers need time, right? So, I don't know, Chassis is the place
00:21to, you know, to do this, but give him time and he will work. This is my feeling. All
00:28the times, judge what Man City do, I will not be the first to say what the others do.
00:35They can do what they believe is the best for the team. I'm pretty sure they do it,
00:39but if you see that the squad have more than 40 players, but more than 40, so it's a lot.
00:47Yes, sometimes it sounds like an excuse because every manager is talking about timing. I know
00:51that timing in football is difficult, but at the end, I think, in our case, because
00:57of the process, because of the idea, I'm 100 per cent sure that this team is getting
01:02better game after game. With timing, we're going to close the gap with, in this moment,
01:08City, Arsenal, these kind of clubs that are dominating English football.
01:11It's really tough. We always have a big challenge to beat them. Gary and the coaching staff,
01:18they've done an exceptional job. It's a really competitive match. They are really tricky
01:24to attack, they are very tricky to contend, because they create chances in various ways,
01:30and I think we need to be at our best, and if we do that, we will have a good chance
01:35to win the game.
01:36Now we are excited to start the season against a promoted team that did really, really well
01:41in the last few years under their manager, and it's interesting to see what's going to
01:47happen tomorrow. It is true that a newly promoted club, there's a lot of positivity around a
01:53club like this. As people told me, every game in a Premier League is going to be an
02:01intense game and there are no easy games, and that is something that we can expect tomorrow
02:09as well. A promoted team that only had a lot of positives in recent years will come up
02:15against us, really looking forward to it.
02:18We know our targets, we know that we are in the right direction, we know we have won
02:24two trophies and we know our K-model, so now we have to integrate the new players where
02:33we think they can improve the K-model, they can improve the team levels and take it from there.
02:42I'm sure he's trying to bring his version of what he wants to do. It still looks to
02:47me like they are passing, playing, maybe pressing a bit quicker, maybe a bit quicker
02:52tempo to their passing and playing, but he's just looking to get his variation of football
02:56and one that he'll know deep down that you've got to win and you've got to win enough to
03:01make sure that people take strength in what you do.