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16:01Just on McAtee there, obviously heís got a lot of games and stuff
16:06but he hasnít started a Premier League or Champions League game for you
16:10and I suspect he wants more play minutes.
16:13Can you understand his frustration and if he does stay
16:16do you think youíll be getting more playing time over the second half of the season?
16:19Yeah, of course, in terms of frustration, absolutely.
16:22I understand. I was a football player having incredible empathy to feel what he can feel.
16:27But the same happens for other players, you know, for the other ones
16:30and they have to be ready and the best.
16:33So we donít want anyone unsatisfied, you know my opinion of that,
16:37but in the middle of the season with the problems that we had
16:40so I had the feeling that we need him, I need him. Itís simple.
16:46Hi Pep, it was in the game against Arsenal earlier this season
16:49that Rodri got injured.
16:51I mean, when you look back does that sort of just feel the moment
16:54that everything changed for you?
16:58The absence for Rodri is massive, but I repeat the same we have done many times.
17:04I have not been just Rodri.
17:08But of course, the best player in the world in absence,
17:11tell me one thing we will not notice, of course we notice.
17:14I would prefer to lose that game and Rodri have it all season, absolutely.
17:19But I think, maybe Iím wrong, I cannot prove it,
17:23the situation that we had this season was not just Rodri,
17:26it was many other things.
17:32Hi Pep, Omar Mahmoudís debut last week against Chelsea
17:35was quite sort of exciting, I think he excited the supporters
17:38with what he produced.
17:40What was it that first sort of drew the club to want to sign him
17:45and how was he settled in in his first couple of weeks?
17:49Well, the club decided to bring an extra player in the final third
17:53with a talent for a scorer and assists and runners and set pieces
17:58and what I said.
18:01So, I think except by a medical report or someone else,
18:05we never went to the winter transfer in this period.
18:10Always we want to go to the end because itís not good in that.
18:13But exceptional situation.
18:14This season is exceptional for many things
18:16and we should intervene to finish the season as soon as possible
18:20but that players donít come for these six months,
18:22come from the next four or five or six years in this club
18:25and everything is going well.
18:27So, thatís why we went there because financially weíre stable
18:32for the last seasons.
18:35Still right now, even the investment we have done,
18:38we have a lot of money,
18:40still right now, even the investment we have done,
18:43we have been profiting net in the last five seasons.
18:46So, thatís why we have done it
18:48and maybe in the future weíre going to continue to do it
18:51because financially the club have moved in the last,
18:54especially five, six years incredibly well
18:56in terms of sales, in terms of players
18:59that make an incredible, incredible performance for the club
19:02that help us to win what we want.
19:05Pep, just on Rodri.
19:09Weíve seen him travel with the squad to Paris last week
19:12and heís been in and around training.
19:14How important is it to keep him close
19:16and kind of as involved as possible
19:18and is there a chance that he will play again this season
19:20or is that out of the question?
19:22Heís positive to Feyenoord at the end
19:24but I donít know, to be honest.
19:26The ACL is ACL.
19:29Always I believe in the injuries, in the long injuries
19:31there is a time that must be respected
19:33because human body, there is a place that can win weeks.
19:37But the human body, ACL is ACL for every football player,
19:41every athlete, so there is a time.
19:43The first month was in Madrid all the time
19:46for the surgery doctors and the physios there
19:48and after I came here and heís here.
19:50Once heís here itís lovely to have him in the locker room.
19:52His vocal voice, his presence, of course itís important.
19:56And when he wants to travel,
19:58I always say to the English players
20:00when you want to come in special places,
20:02of course you can come and itís nice to have him.
20:05Heís good.
20:06But what I said, the most important right now is to recover well.
20:09Still you are not a teenager anymore
20:12but still you have years to play
20:15and itís going to happen if you recover well.
20:18To win one month or two weeks
20:20and after step back for the next season
20:23is not intelligent.
20:24So of course he will love to play tomorrow.
20:27I know that but the bodies are the bodies.
20:31Recovery needs its own time
20:34but itís going really well.
20:36He feels really good and step by step weíll see.
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