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🧵 Quotes thread Double Gameweek 26 [Wednesday]

🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta pre-Benfica: "Thomas [Partey] is very close. He's got a final test today in training. If he's feeling good, he will be available to play the match."

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📢 Arteta on Holding: "Regarding Rob, he's not available. He had a concussion, we tested him and he's completely fine but obviously now we need to follow the protocols and he won't be able to travel."

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📢 Arteta on Bukayo Saka: "His form in recent months shows that he's a very important player for us. I think he's getting better and better, his performance levels have been really consistent - so that makes him, for sure, one..."

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📢 Arteta on Saka: "...of the most important players in recent months.

"[His consistency] is very unusual but he's been doing a lot of unusual things. He's dealing with things at his age in a very unusual way but that's why..."

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📢 Arteta on Saka: "...he's showing what he's showing, because his maturity is above his age and so is his intelligence as well."

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📢 Arteta asked if Hector Bellerin's place is under threat from Cedric: "I think everybody has to compete with each other. I think Cedric has done really well. We've got Calum [Chambers] now that has been training really well..."

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📢 Arteta asked if Bellerin's place is under threat from Cedric: "...in the last three to four weeks as well and he [Chambers] looks completely ready to step in so everybody has to play at their best level..."

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📢 Arteta asked if Bellerin's place is under threat from Cedric: "...we're going to have to rotate players as well with the amount of games that we have."

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on James Maddison: "He won't be available for the [Slavia Prague] game. He's in consultation with our doctor and specialists to see where we're at. For tomorrow, he misses out."

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📢 Rodgers on Maddison: "We don’t believe he needs more surgery. It’s irritable where he’s had the issue before. We’re just getting all the information on it. He went to London yesterday with Bryan [English], our..."

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📢 Rodgers on Maddison: "...club doctor, just to get an opinion. He’s down there today as well, getting another opinion, so we can clear up the information after that. We’re confident he won’t need anything surgical..."

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📢 Rodgers on Maddison: "...we’re just having to get a specialist opinion on it and then formulate a plan for his recovery and reintegration into the team again."

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📢 Rodgers on squad depth: "The tactical flexibility of the team has allowed us to arrive into games and play in different ways, while maintaining the principles of our game, so [the players] deserve a high amount of credit."

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🏮 Man Utd

📢 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on Edinson Cavani, Scott McTominay & Donny van de Beek: "They'll still be missing. They've not joined training so they won't be ready, no."

On Pogba: "Paul has been outside on the grass and..."

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📢 Solskjaer on Pogba: "...is starting to step up his recovery but he's not near the team for this game."

On Real Sociedad tie: "It'll be more or less the same squad that we had against Newcastle."

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💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola pre-match to BT: "Rotation when you are winning is always a big decision. With the rotation when you win, everyone is involved.

"When you lose, 'why change too much, why rotate..."

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📢 Guardiola on rotation: "...too much, you have to make the same back four'.

"Always the belief with this incredible amount of games. We played three days, travel, couldn't train much.

"After in three days we play..."

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📢 Guardiola on rotation: "...at 12.30. It's an incredible challenge and everyone needs to be involved.

"Next game against Southampton [*presumably meant West Ham*] we change 5, 6, 7 players.

"[It is] the only way..."

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📢 Guardiola on rotation: "...to sustain every player involved. In the same case, if we win everyone is happy because everyone plays but if we don't win they are upset because they want to play every game."

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📢 More Guardiola (for balance on the Southampton thing): "We're going to try to win, to get a good result and then afterwards we are going to think about West Ham on Saturday.

"This is the only target. It's the same..."

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📢 Guardiola: "...process as I've said to the players for a long time - think of the next one and then, after that, the next one."

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🚿 Spurs

📢 Jose Mourinho on Dele Alli: "He played very well in every aspect of the game, he played very well.

"Of course he's not fresh, of course you can feel that his performance, like in the..."

 

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📢 Mourinho on Alli: "...first leg, from minute 55-60 is going always to go down, which is normal due to the circumstances; injured, not training for a long time.

"But in this moment when we are going to play every three days..."

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📢 Mourinho on Alli: "...10 matches in March - to have Dele back at this level is amazing.

"But I wouldn't say Dele only. Winks, Sissoko, just to give two more examples, to have them back to this level, we need more than ever."

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📢 Mourinho on fixtures: "Seven for us plus three in the national team is 10 in March. Ten matches I believe is impossible for a football player, so when it is impossible you need to have players available for you."

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📢 Mourinho: "We had a problem for a month with only Ben Davies at left-back. Now we have Ben and [Sergio] Reguilon and we need to have that in every position. That's what we need because we have a lot to play for."

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💠 Man City

📢 Guardiola on Joao Cancelo: "He's playing really well. Sometimes in that position we have to control the risk.

"He is a player with huge quality and his physicality is overwhelming..."

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📢 Guardiola on Cancelo: "...he would be ready to play tomorrow and his two assists were brilliant.

"He has to have the quality to put that ball and he did it perfectly."

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📢 Guardiola on Bernardo Silva: "He's quite similar [to previous campaigns] - last season maybe he dropped a bit but every time he plays, he is an exceptional player with exceptional quality."

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📢 Guardiola on B Silva's heading ability: "He's really good in the air! I've seen in the training sessions when you make an action for the header, you have to use your body. He is strong, he is a good header."

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