📢 Ralph Hasenhuttl on Tino Livramento: "Whenever a new player comes to our club it normally takes them a little bit of time, to be honest, with our pressing style and with the intensity we train..."
📢 Hasenhuttl on Livramento: "...when I saw how quickly he got there and how quickly he was able to deliver what we asked of him in this position, I knew that he had something very good, something very special..."
📢 Hasenhuttl on Livramento: "...he is already at a very high level and has the whole package, for his age. He is physically and mentally very strong. [But] let's allow him some time. I will protect him when I need to, give him breaks..."
📢 Mikel Arteta: "From Covid we still have Ben [White] out and Alex Runarsson who has been out and the rest of the players that are missing, hopefully..."
📢 Arteta on White: "...him back to training and start to play games with us again."
On Gabriel: "He’s getting closer. He had a couple of sessions with the team but we don’t know [if he can play v Man City]. Let’s see tomorrow how he is."
📢 Nuno on fitness concerns: "We have the problem with Joe [Rodon], he is not fit to join us and Cameron [Carter-Vickers]. We have minor ones, problems after every match..."
📢 Nuno on Romero: "Cristian is okay. He had problems in the previous leg, so we decided not to take him to Wolves. He trained yesterday, trained today and he's an option for tomorrow."
📢 Steve Bruce on Darlow and Martin Dubravka: "With Karl, it is seeing how his physical wellbeing is. How long that will be? We have known in the past we had a player..."
📢 Smith asked if Grealish is ready to start: "Jack is training today and then we’ll have a discussion with him after and with the medical staff to decide on the progress of his recovery..."
📢 Pep Guardiola asked if De Bruyne is available: "Yeah, he’s been training for the last two days, he feels good. Kevin is important like everyone is..."
📢 Guardiola asked if De Bruyne is available: "...everyone knows it [how important Kevin is] but everyone is at the same level - we will see his level and see if he is fit to play."