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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Gameweek 3 [Friday]

🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Andy Robertson: "Robbo trained the whole week, of course he [is] in contention, no doubt about that."

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📢 Klopp on team news: "Millie [James Milner] will not be ready – I think that's it pretty much. All the rest trained and looked good and sharp."

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☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Dean Smith on team news/injuries: "Ollie Watkins will train with us today and if he gets through training, he’ll be available for selection.

"[Leon Bailey's] progress is going ok but tomorrow will come too soon for him..."

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📢 Smith on team news/injuries: "...the same with Bertrand Traore. I expect both of them to be fit for the first game after the international break.

"Morgan Sanson is training fully with us now. He’s had no match exposure, so he’s likely..."

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📢 Smith on team news/injuries: "...to play a couple of games in the next week or two [over the break].

"Keinan Davis is coming out of a brace tomorrow and he’ll be three or four weeks away from training."

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📢 Smith on Anwar El Ghazi: "You only have to look at his stats from last season; he scored ten goals in the Premier League, which can get overlooked at times as a wide player.

"It’s a good return from a wide player who didn’t start..."

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📢 Smith on El Ghazi: "...every game. This season, he’s started really well and got his goal against Newcastle.

"He came off at 4-0 [v Barrow] with two goals and two assists to his name, so it shows you the kind of form he’s in."

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🏰 Newcastle

📢 Steve Bruce: "[Allan] Saint-Maximin had a kick on the top of his foot and it was a bit sore but we expect him to be OK.

"Paul Dummett is back in and around it..."

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📢 Bruce: "...it's touch and go for Saturday for Isaac Hayden but everybody else is OK."

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🔫 Arsenal

- Bukayo Saka and Kieran Tierney are both in full training for the Gunners

- Ben White's 'health and fitness will be continually monitored ahead of Saturday'

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📘 Everton

📢 Rafa Benitez on team news: "We have some players that are coming back and still some players that we are missing. [Fabian] Delph, he has a problem with his shoulder, he will not be available..."

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📢 Benitez on team news: "...[that] is one of the names, some of them...I will not go with everyone.

"But still we have a training session, we will train later on, we will fly and then we will have more information..."

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📢 Benitez on team news: "...it's just giving you this one [Delph] that maybe you didn't know."

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🇦🇷 Leeds

📢 Marcelo Bielsa asked if Diego Llorente is ready to play 90 minutes: "We think so."

Questioned if there's any other team news: "Not at the moment."

On Robin Koch: "[He is] evolving but not completely healthy."

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📢 Bielsa on why Raphinha has been a #PL success: "A very potent player - very difficult to triumph in the Premier League without that potency.

"Explosiveness and speed. Quick physical responses. Sustains the effort without any problems..."

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📢 Bielsa on why Raphinha has been a #PL success: "...very few players with the talent he has in his feet."

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🐝 Watford

- Juraj Kucka is a doubt for the Hornets heading into Gameweek 3

- Ben Foster has been ruled out due to 'small hamstring problem'

- Joao Pedro is running outside following a knee injury

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🪱 Burnley

📢 Sean Dyche on Ashley Westwood and Matej Vydra: "We think we have better news with Westy and Vyds. They are back on the grass and we will see how they react to that before making a decision..."

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📢 Dyche on Westwood and Vydra: "...it looks like better news. Nothing serious to report from the other night so hopefully two bodies back in the building."

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📢 Dyche on Aaron Lennon: "I didn't want him to leave in the first place. He's fit and well, he played a lot of games last season in Turkey and he knows the group and what we're about, so it's good to have him back."

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🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on 'battle' between Robertson and Tsimikas: "There's no battle, the players don't battle each other. It's about who is in good shape, who is playing the position in which way.

"I'm really happy with how Kostas..."

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📢 Klopp on 'battle' between Robertson and Tsimikas: "...performed in the last two games, actually in the whole pre-season. It was a big step for him after a tough first year at Liverpool.

"Now he's in his best moment since he came here..."

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📢 Klopp on Robertson and Tsimikas: "...that's one thing, it's great and we've a long season ahead.

"But for this game [it is not like] Robbo is only in training since yesterday; he was in training early enough to be in the squad last week..."

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📢 Klopp on Robertson and Tsimikas: "...nobody would ever, especially in that situation, rush Robbo back.

"It's not now that we open the race and say, 'OK, Robbo, whatever you did in the last few years, I don't care, now Kostas is there'..."

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📢 Klopp on Robertson and Tsimikas: "...we have two left-backs, that was always the idea. Having these two options is absolutely great and both will have their games for sure this year."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Patrick Vieira on team news: "No injuries. All the players are ready to go."

On Luka Milivojevic: "He won't be involved, he needs more training. He's not physically fit to play the game. We'll use the international..."

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📢 Vieira on Milivojevic: "...break for him to catch up. He'll be ready for the next home game."

On Will Hughes: "He's a player we know quite well. He's comfortable on the ball, he's a good link with the play going forward..."

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📢 Vieira on Hughes: "...I'm really glad to have him in the squad."

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on team news: "At the moment, most of us are okay. We've had a few knocks but overall we're fine. We're still waiting on Arthur Masuaku coming back but he's got a better chance probably after the international break."

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📢 Moyes on Kurt Zouma: "We have had an offer accepted from Chelsea for Kurt Zouma but I could not tell you if the medical has been completed yet."

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💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne: "He is getting better but he's still not fit."

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🔴 Brentford

📢 Thomas Frank on team news: "Everyone from the Crystal Palace game should be available. We'll assess Mathias Jensen and Shandon Baptiste to see if they'll be involved in the squad."

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📢 Frank on new signings: "They are settling in well, especially Kris Ajer and Frank Onyeka because they've played the first two games and done really well..."

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📢 Frank on new signings: "...Yoane [Wissa] came in a little later but we have big expectations in how he can help us. He had 90 minutes and a goal on Tuesday night..."

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📢 Frank on new signings: "...they are settling in well but at different stages of how they can perform now."

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🏮 Man Utd

📢 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on injuries/team news: "We’re still missing Scott [McTominay], who had surgery this week. Marcus [Rashford], Alex [Telles], Dean Henderson, they’re not ready.

"But apart from that, we have a fit squad..."

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📢 Solskjaer on injuries/team news: "...ready to fight for points.

"Scott has had surgery and he couldn’t carry on. We tried to manage it and get him through without surgery but we couldn’t and in the end, it was too sore for him..."

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📢 Solskjaer on McTominay: "...by the end of the Southampton game, when he came in, that was the decision."

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🌉 Chelsea

📢 Thomas Tuchel on Kurt Zouma: "He's not with us but not because of his negotiation, he is not with us for personal issues. But I won't lie to you, he is in negotiations with West Ham."

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🤍 Spurs

📢 Nuno on team news: "We did the recovery with the players who were on the pitch [on Thurs]. Did a good training session, [we're] preparing for the match against Watford. Joe [Rodon] still has problems, Cameron [Carter-Vickers] the same."

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🟡 Norwich

📢 Daniel Farke on injuries/team news: "Sadly we still have to play with Przemyslaw Placheta, he is still struggling a little bit with symptoms after his Covid infection.

"I expect he will hopefully be back after the..."

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📢 Farke on injuries/team news: "...international break but he will definitely miss out for this game.

"Also Bali Mumba is out, he got a bad tackle against his knee in the last game and his kneecap was dislocated for a moment..."

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📢 Farke on injuries/team news: "...thank god not a major injury but he will definitely miss this game. We are quite hopeful that he will be able to return for the game after the international break. It is already much better than it was..."

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📢 Farke on injuries/team news: "...after the last game but he will definitely miss this game.

"And I would label it a minor question mark beside Josh Sargent. He had his full debut the other night in the cup against Bournemouth..."

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📢 Farke on injuries/team news: "...and he is struggling with some glute problems. I would say I am carefully optimistic that he is available but there is a minor question mark.

"A bigger question mark behind Christos Tzolis because he is..."

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📢 Farke on injuries/team news: "...struggling with calf problems since the last game. We’ll assess him over the next 24 hours and we’ll see if he is available or not."

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🐺 Wolves

- Willy Boly, Yerson Mosquera training w/ team

📢 Lage on Jimenez: "The way he works for the team, the chances he creates, the goals he's scoring in training, he's already there [back to himself]. He's done really well in the first two games."

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📢 Lage: "Yerson [Mosquera] and Boly started to work with us. That’s the good news.

"And Daniel [Podence] played 60 minutes on Tuesday night at a good level, scored one goal, so that’s three more top players with us..."

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📢 Lage: "...it’s very good to have them back and for them to be on the pitch and everyone to be working hard to be better."

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