Guardiola on Oscar Bobb's return, injuries and Salford City Fa Cup tie
10/01/2025
CFGA, Manchester, Uk
10/01/2025
CFGA, Manchester, Uk
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00:00Afternoon, guys, hope you're well, same process as ever, mics on either side,
00:08we'll set an embargo halfway through for 10.30 this evening.
00:12That would be our place.
00:14Good afternoon, Pep. Can I take a check on your team news, first of all?
00:19Obviously you were hoping, I think, to have the likes of Ruben Diaz back around this time,
00:24talk that maybe Oscar Bob could have been back around this time, where are you up to?
00:27Not yet, he's feeling better, but he's not yet ready.
00:30I don't know when, no.
00:32Is Bob back on the grass yet?
00:34Yeah, he's training already with the team, partial, it's good news for us.
00:37So when would you expect to have him back?
00:39I don't know, but he's not muscular, it was a bone fracture,
00:45and one is already fixed, so it's fine, so now he's in good condition,
00:49but it's good news that he's back.
00:51Can I ask you about the transfer window being opened,
00:53because it sounds like the club...
00:55You're going to ask me about that, because I'm not going in.
00:57I know all the month you're going to ask me the same,
00:59about all you are linking in the media, so I'm not going to talk.
01:04You can insist, I'm not going to answer, because I don't know the situation.
01:07We know that we should not go to the transfer window, I don't like much.
01:12If the situation would happen that season, with many, many, many injuries,
01:18and we have to try to do it, because the situation is what it is.
01:25But what happened, I'm not going to talk, because I don't know.
01:31Of course I have conversations with the club, but with the process that happened,
01:35I don't know if it's going to happen, because it's so difficult.
01:38If it's going to happen, it's going to happen, otherwise I cannot say anything else.
01:43It sounds like, certainly from one of the players linked, Omar Mahmoud,
01:48that he's keen on a move here.
01:50What's attracted you as a club to Sampdoria?
01:53I was not clear on my answer.
01:55I thought we should do a bit of a dance anyway.
01:57Come on.
01:59I was clear in my answer, I'm not going to talk.
02:01He's a player for another club, I'm not going to say an answer.
02:03You can say every single press conference talk about the transfer window until the end.
02:08I'm not going to answer one question.
02:10Don't go in that way.
02:12In the past it happened the same.
02:14I was clear, right?
02:16Yeah, and I've also sat here and done this as well.
02:18Listen, you can try it.
02:20You can try it any time you want.
02:22No problem at all, but you know my answer.
02:24We will know my answer.
02:26Hi, Pep.
02:28Erling Haaland's played the most minutes of any Manchester City player this season.
02:32Could this weekend be a chance for a rest for him?
02:34You will see tomorrow.
02:36Do you think he needs one?
02:38He feels good.
02:41He feels good.
02:43We have some niggles in the first day,
02:45but we have seven days.
02:47We must come to Salford
02:49and recover well.
02:51In the situation that we have,
02:53we need everyone ready
02:55to go through.
02:57And what do you know about Salford City
02:59and of course the class of 92's involvement as well?
03:01Well, I'm living in Salford
03:03for the last eight years.
03:05So I will play against my neighbourhood.
03:07So my home town,
03:09you know where I'm living.
03:11So a lot of respect for the manager.
03:13We played years ago.
03:15He was in Oxford and was assistant coach
03:17for Sam Allardyce when he played in Leeds.
03:19And the last six games,
03:21six clean sheets, six victories.
03:23So huge respect for them, what they do,
03:25the intensity.
03:29And yeah, take it seriously, of course,
03:31like all we have done in this club
03:33since I arrived.
03:35And hopefully we can do a good game
03:37with three victories in a row.
03:39A long time didn't happen.
03:41And in maybe a future life when you're not a manager,
03:43would you ever consider buying a football club?
03:45No.
03:47Why?
03:49Because I'm not good at that.
03:51I'm sometimes a good manager.
03:53But as a businessman, I'm not good.
03:55So I'm not absolutely interested in that.
03:59Just on Salford's Manchester United connections,
04:01how much extra spice does that add to this tie?
04:04Well, they won a lot of titles.
04:06The generation of players,
04:08they won a lot of money.
04:10They can buy teams.
04:12So that's good.
04:14Yeah, it's good.
04:16I'm...
04:18So I think...
04:20So Gary Neville
04:22or David Beckham,
04:24I don't know if the players are involved.
04:26But they are smart people.
04:28I'm pretty sure of that.
04:30And when the people from football
04:32or run football clubs
04:34always take smart decisions.
04:36And of course.
04:38So if they decide, it's fine.
04:40How good would it be for the Manchester area
04:42to have another team rising through the leaves?
04:46Yeah, they're in League 2 now.
04:48I'm pretty sure
04:50they want to do
04:52like Stoke-Port
04:54and many clubs of that,
04:56that they want to
04:58rise.
05:00Of course,
05:02it's a tie because they like it.
05:04It's part of business.
05:06The higher you are as a club,
05:08the better the perspective will be.
05:10And just to check on another couple of players,
05:12John Stones and Ederson, are they...?
05:14Ederson is fine.
05:16And John Stones, no.
05:18Hi.
05:20Back on Haaland's minutes,
05:22is this an even more impressive number
05:24from him this season,
05:26even above the goal numbers?
05:29Enormous quality news, isn't it?
05:31Erling has since arrived.
05:35The year before he arrived here,
05:37already three or four years ago,
05:39so had the problems in Dortmund
05:41the last year, in playing.
05:43But since he arrived,
05:45always except one period a little bit.
05:47The other was so consistent in terms of injury,
05:49his feet.
05:51And I think the year of the travel was amazing.
05:53Last season he scored a goal
05:55but was struggling a little bit.
05:57And this season I had the feeling
05:59that he's incredibly focused.
06:01And that's why when we are focused
06:03and your target is to be fit,
06:05always you are fit.
06:07Like I said before, it's a big body.
06:09He needs sometimes extra care.
06:11How much into detail can you see him
06:13taking care of his life as well?
06:15We have a personnel with Mario.
06:17Our physio takes care of him really well
06:19and spends a lot of time here.
06:21So that's why
06:23he's always ready to...
06:25Sometimes, of course,
06:27you cannot perform all the time
06:29with the amount of games at the same level.
06:31But the injuries that we have up front,
06:33Lophiel can play there,
06:35Oskar can play there,
06:37Maka can play there.
06:39And at the end,
06:41with this amount of situations,
06:43we should use him
06:45maybe more than the spec,
06:47but he handles it really well.
06:49Can I just double-check
06:51after West Ham in the press conference
06:54when you were talking about
06:56collectively trying to turn
06:58the bad moment around,
07:00you said almost all your players wanted to do it.
07:02Did you mean to say almost?
07:04Sorry?
07:06After West Ham, when you were talking about
07:08Man City trying to turn the bad moment around,
07:10you said almost all my players.
07:12I don't know if you meant to say almost.
07:14I don't remember that.