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00:00Will take questions from English-speaking media first and then questions in Spanish after that
00:04If I can ask you to raise your hand, we'll come to as many of you as we can. Obviously, it's a busy room
00:07We do one question per organization, please. Somewhere to start?
00:16Hi Pep, you've had some good news in terms of Erling Haaland and Jack Grealish and Ake and Diaz as well. That's a boost for you, isn't it?
00:25Yeah, they travel
00:27We'll see. We'll see tomorrow, but it's good news. They are here, obviously
00:31You were talking to Jack Grealish quite a lot in the open bit of the training
00:35How important can he be tomorrow night because he was playing so well in the first half?
00:39He's able to play a really good game against, for example, FA Cup, but after he had not
00:45consistency to play every
00:47week
00:48You know, three games a week
00:50Six games two weeks, so he was not able to do it. Hopefully
00:54These three months I have, we have until the end of the season, he can get it
01:00Obviously, it's not your first time here, you know how intimidating the atmosphere can be. How important is it that your players
01:07sort of focus on their game and try and shut that out as much as possible tomorrow?
01:11In that level and against that teams, no matter the stage
01:15The pressure is there, that's more than welcome. You cannot perform well without the pressure and
01:20And
01:22Then it's what it is, not the first time. It depends how we play, how we handle it
01:29The moments always in this stadium, in the biggest stadiums, no matter it's here in Barcelona, Milan, Anfield
01:37Always the bad moments that you have to suffer will be there. Try to reduce as less as possible
01:45What is it gonna take to turn this around?
01:47Do you need almost everything to go right?
01:51Yeah, you have to make an almost perfect game. Obviously, the result is not good
01:58Always we came with a more or less good result and
02:02But the result is not the perfect situation. We have to attack, we have to score goals
02:08This is the idea
02:11Pep, you've already started the renewal of your squad with all the signings you made in January
02:15Is it fair to say that for some players this might be their last chance with City in the Champions League, obviously with the
02:22Summer changes you're thinking of as well?
02:24No, I don't know. I would like to answer you, but we'll be at the end of the season
02:29Still we have a lot to play
02:31To qualify for the Champions League next season, of course Europe right now, still we are there
02:36If we're a cup
02:38The World Cup in the end of the season we take the decision
02:42This could be their last chance. This season? Yes. Yeah
02:47If we don't go through it definitely is the last chance. If we go through we'll have another one
02:53So but in terms of the players for the future
02:56Decisions will not be made because it will depend on how the performance will be until the end of the season
03:04Hi Pep, you're obviously gonna need big characters tomorrow night. Can I ask you about Erling Haaland's
03:11development on
03:12That side of his game
03:14Sort of obviously was given the captain's armband on on Saturday. Have you seen real sort of growth in his leadership qualities?
03:23But have been a really important decision since arrived
03:25I would say three years ago the numbers and the consistency in playing games have been
03:30unbelievable
03:32But we had to perform not just Erling
03:36So I always said before your colleagues to me almost a perfect game to go through
03:41but it's the same you have to go to Anfield or Arsenal right now or go to
03:46Barcelona right now or the big teams in Europe that qualify the top eight. I would say you go away
03:52Will be quite similar how to play a really really good game. Especially after the result we
03:59We take we took in the first game
04:03Hi Pep
04:05All the talk in the build-up to the game here in Madrid has been about referees
04:09Real Madrid saying that they feel they get treated unfairly by match officials
04:14Are you worried at all that all of this talk might affect the officials in charge of the game? I don't think so
04:21Is there already a pressure on referees on such a big occasion? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the referee wanna
04:28When is the scrutiny you are in front of the whole Europe all around the world?
04:32There's the human being they don't want to perform well because it's not just see you and me I see you
04:39all planet so and that's why the decisions they want to take they want to be good, but
04:46Sometimes you know, it happens and then it doesn't but I don't think so. They will feel the pressure
04:54Hi, you've obviously faced Real Madrid a lot over the years always against good teams never easy to win here, but
05:01Given the circumstances with the scoreline. Does this feel your hardest trip here?
05:07And if you can do it, would it then feel perhaps the biggest win you've got here?
05:11I have an incredible good memories in this stadium
05:16even
05:18Sometimes good ones and times no good ones, but always I had the good memories when coming here
05:23Never have been easy when I was a football player with
05:26With a with a with Barca enough as a manager or by Munich and the city always have been tough
05:33we know that so the history is here, but always have a good memories is a good moments and
05:40Any stopping of course the result is not the perfect one
05:44but we came sometimes here with better results at the end didn't come sometimes come so
05:50We have to do it and we see how we how we behave
05:54Pep
05:56Just just on the referee situation
05:58Are you happy with your if your players swear at a referee?
06:01Are you concerned they might be risking get a red card or do you think what happened at the weekend was an awful reaction?
06:06Do you actually warn your players not to swear at referees? I?
06:10Will not say never ever but really really really I talk about the referees with my place
06:17Maybe in the circumstances that
06:20The days before is something something you know is
06:24Impossible to forget because it's in the pipe and the locker room in the media
06:29extremely hard
06:34Most of the times I don't even know which the referee will be will be present so
06:40Yesterday, but yesterday was day of this morning never didn't talk about that with the team
06:46And I assure you it's not going to happen tonight. It's not gonna happen tomorrow do one more question English guys
06:51Just say please hi Alex Ashmore here for Sporty TV. You talked about those memories playing around Madrid
06:57What are the some of the big takeaways from those games perhaps the defeats that you've learned and?
07:00Things that you want to change to try and do better tomorrow night. You have to obey with courage
07:06You have to be yourself what I learned in the years like I was a football player with
07:10Young player here, and we didn't get results the moment we changed a bit the mentality
07:15You have to play with incredible courage
07:17Not to play to win the game
07:19otherwise
07:22Always you can lose, but always you are yourself and the times we we did really well here when they get results because
07:30We we play to win the game
07:33Now we don't have alternative for the result of having the first leg
07:37Even Spanish please guys just out the front
07:39What I did get that one I thought hi, Pep good afternoon straight to see you here
07:43I don't matter from governor said you've talked about an almost perfect game for tomorrow
07:48And a bit about good memories in Bernabeu
07:50I either losing or winning maybe when you see the press conference the stadium
07:55Maybe this cheers you up. Maybe you think that your team has more odds to to move on
08:01Maybe it's not 1% maybe you have more odds to to try to to win the playoff
08:07Well the city must change quite a lot. I was quite used to
08:11More to the old not the old Bernabeu
08:13But before all the civil works and of course we'll spend maybe two years and the corridor was a little bit different
08:21No, nothing special. We'll have a good dinner. We'll prepare a good the good game. Well. We haven't played
08:28We haven't played just for one week not three months or one year so players know what we did well
08:34What we have to improve and we'll work on it, yeah
08:41We apologize we're not here in the mic
08:50Yeah, no we can hear it
08:54So what would what would you say about the 1% Carlos said that you didn't believe that 1%
09:01What do you think about it? No? No? I don't give my opinion. No not at all. I think that you have more odds
09:07well this time I
09:10Lied to you for the first time you didn't believe me. I always when I say what I think
09:16You don't believe me, but this time you're true. You're right
09:20Well what I said
09:23After the game in England basically in and here
09:26Well we're out right two three
09:29I think that nobody thought that we could move on that 1% was there
09:33But let's the weeks go by and days go by you cheer yourself up
09:37But it's not the best result of course in order to to try to to make it
09:41But we'll try to of course we will try to move on of course
09:45Yeah, so Carlos don't have to say anything before we came
09:53I'm afraid the mic is not working either
09:56So the good performance and the adaptation ratio that Julian has had in Spanish football and on the other hand if
10:05At any time during these four or five months, maybe you have
10:09Told you off not to keep him in your team
10:14No, I really don't feel accountable for it
10:17the club brought amazing players and
10:20The opinion that I have is that he really
10:23Thought and he really wanted to to play all the minutes that he's playing right now that maybe he didn't have with us
10:28And he decided to to come to Atletico de Madrid so the only thing I know from my side
10:34Is that we're really happy that he's having such a good experience. He's playing a lot
10:39He's scoring a lot of goals, and he has a great presence
10:42I think that he helped us a lot accomplish something unique in our club
10:46And he's a very good guy, and we're very happy that he is happy this happens in life sometimes
10:54Of course I would have liked that he continued with us
10:57But he wanted to be I wanted to play more with
10:59Earling it was typical for him and of course with the great amount of injuries that we've had this year
11:04He would have played much more than previous year, but I think that it's a good
11:11Ending for him in this situation. I know that he's happy. I haven't talked to him, but
11:16According to some people that I know I know he's happy and that's the most important thing
11:21Get out of it
11:23Yeah, hello, Pep Mitchell Reed cadena copy hello. Are you are you you've talked about the referees?
11:29It's not something that you are concerned about
11:30I don't know if you saw what happened when the Jude was sent off and that fuck you or fuck off
11:37I mean, I wanted to ask you well
11:39You've been at Premier League for many years and the football in the context is maybe it's it usual to say fuck off
11:45And it's not as important as the end. Maybe it has a different meaning
11:49right, maybe it's not as an insult to the referee, but just
11:53Maybe you are blaming yourself
11:56Well, my English is good, but I've never understood that fuck off or fuck you
12:00So just give me a little more time in England so that maybe I will be able to understand it properly
12:06Every
12:14Single time there have been insults and football is football. So decisions are made and they're made period I
12:23Think he's asking about the translation, but I can't really hear him because he's not using Mike the problems
12:28Not the translation is the intention
12:30You should ask Jude what was intent what his intention was fuck you or fuck off that's what it really counts
12:36That's what it matters
12:38Maybe you can insult someone with a great smile in your face. And maybe if that wouldn't be that bad, right?
12:44What was his intention?
12:46Manuela and the referee was Manuela Fernandez, right? I read that there the there's an investigation Wow
12:53Come on
12:55Leave them alone. Leave them alone. It's the best thing we can do leave them alone
13:01Pep hello. Good afternoon
13:04Eduardo for HSM sports
13:06City has been quite successful
13:09When you've been able to control the game, maybe you feel that this season the team doesn't have that control
13:16And why is this happening? Thank you
13:19There are many reasons
13:21But we are
13:24Not maybe we are the least reliable team this isn't I don't have to say that we've always been a machine
13:31We can be beaten in minute 94, but we have been a machine for 80 is every three days
13:38Nobody has done that in England in the history. But what I say that situation is more difficult. I know my team
13:44I do not lie to myself
13:46I know when we are able to do that everything can happen in just one game
13:50But I know what we've been able to do in the past and I know what we are being able to do to do this
13:55Year, so it was like you are winning two to one. Well, maybe you could be nil to three at the halftime and
14:03Maybe we should have scored seven goals in the previous games that we've played here
14:07You never know in football, but I don't lie to myself. I knew my team very good
14:10I know what we were able of but I know what we've been able to do this year
14:16We're not that
14:17Maybe we're not a solvent team. Maybe we're missing Rotary, of course
14:22If we lose the best play in the world, of course, that has to be a problem
14:29So I won three titles with Barcelona would have would have we done that without Messi?
14:34Good question. I don't think so
14:36But the points that the four defenders have been together for 90 minutes in three months
14:43Together three months 90 minutes. So this happens to Real Madrid to Arsenal this happens to many teams because of the season it's
14:51Unsustainable and there's an increasing amount of games and it's increasingly difficult. But even in that way, I haven't been able to to find a way
14:59We've always had issues. I've been a coach for 13 or 14 years, but we always found how to make things work
15:07This season up to now we have not been able to do it
15:10We are able to do very good things like last Saturday and to recover what we used to be
15:15But it has been just sometimes let's see if we can recover this tomorrow and maybe we can turn things around
15:22We have
15:25Well, we just want to to win because we are really lost so to speak with loss the first game
15:30We have to play a little bit more than 90 minutes
15:32Let's see if we were able to
15:34to adjust some things that didn't work the first leg and with the problems that they created and let's see if we
15:41At least if we can at least scare them and let's see what happens
15:45We're not just