Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne contract and West Ham
03/01/2025
CFGA, Manchester, UK
03/01/2025
CFGA, Manchester, UK
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00:00Good evening, guys, hope you're well. Same process, I might still need a sign, it's an embargo part way through at 10.30 this evening.
00:09Is that with Fraser? Thank you.
00:12Hello, Pep. Can you hear me? Happy New Year to you.
00:17First of all, after that emotional win on Sunday and the days that you've had with the players since then,
00:24are you seeing signs from them that you believe that maybe confidence is beginning to rebuild in the players?
00:29It's just a game that we didn't play at our best level. We won because sometimes football is like that.
00:36There are other games that we played better, we didn't win. Of course, it's good for the mood.
00:41You don't get results, obviously, but we are away for our best to be consistent in the results.
00:47But, of course, we have an opportunity against West Ham to make another victory that always will help for the future.
00:56Has it surprised you how West Ham's season has gone when you consider that they invested heavily in the squad and brought in a new manager?
01:04Yeah, we have a good result, especially away. Maybe a home they didn't get, but I have a lot of respect for Julian.
01:14I know him quite well and the quality of the players are there.
01:18In that period, we are incredibly focused on what is about us, I would say.
01:26And in terms of any players coming back this week, your injury situation?
01:32No, it's quite similar like we were in Leicester.
01:41Hi Pep, just following on from that, Rodri was speaking this week saying he's hopeful of playing Guillem before the end of the season.
01:47Do you think that's realistic? Has he got a chance?
01:50The important thing is to recover well. The end of the season will be good, but the target is to recover well to be ready at the end of the season.
01:59This is the target.
02:01And Ruben Diaz, how is his recovery going?
02:03Getting better, but he's not ready for tomorrow.
02:10Hi Pep, on Savino, how much belief do you hope that first goal will give him now going forward?
02:17Yeah, I think it's going to help. We have chances, but he could not score and I'm pretty sure that he will give us a good moment.
02:26He's so young, it's the first season in England. I think he played really good when he played, but he's so young and many things to improve.
02:34Someone else who's young, James McAtee obviously came on and did really well at Leicester. I know you were really happy with him.
02:40Does that give you more belief that maybe he could start for you in the Premier League now?
02:45Yeah, at the end. Like I said at the press conference, I make a belief that maybe he should have more minutes, but he's young and a lot of games still to play.
02:55But of course, he played really good and most important, all his teammates were so happy. It's been respect for how he behaved in the locker room.
03:06Hi Pep, now it is January, Kevin De Bruyne can speak to clubs from abroad about a move in the summer.
03:14I just wonder from the club's point of view, have there been any talks that you've had with him about extending his contract?
03:20No, that's not my business.
03:23The problem I guess is fitness, obviously we've been speaking about it a lot in here. For him to stay here beyond the summer, does he have to get back to a consistent level of fitness do you think for that to happen?
03:39Always we want. He had problems in the last year, year and a half, like this year many, many players.
03:49But of course when he's consistent and fit and he can play regularly, I said many times, he's a really important player for us, a decisive player.
03:58But it's going to happen for the club, for how he's going to perform until the end of the season, the age that he has and many things.
04:06I think the club has to think about it.
04:09In terms of players coming in, I know you've said here quite a few times that you'd like some help in terms of arrivals in January, but that is set against the backdrop of a difficult January market.
04:19What's Schicky said to you about the likelihood of players being able to be signed this month?
04:25I don't know right now. It's not easy, it will not be easy. Maybe we sign, maybe we don't sign anyone.
04:31So I think the club has to be wise, don't do it for do it.
04:35Just what players, of course, for the situation that we have and for the perspective of the players that are at the linger for consistency for many, many, many times.
04:44Of course the club has to do it, but I don't know if it will be possible to do it.
04:51Hi Pep, just to check on the situation of Ederson, how is he physically at the moment?
04:56Yesterday he trained better. The first training he did without disturbing his leg.
05:05Maybe not tomorrow, but soon?
05:07I hope so.