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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Gameweek 4 [Thursday]

ℹ️ Team news, injury updates, player availability, manager quotes & anything else relevant to Fantasy Premier League from the pressers ahead of the deadline ⬇️

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🐻‍❄️ Leeds

📢 Jesse Marsch on injuries: "The big question mark is Patrick Bamford. We think he’s doing well and moving forward.

"I think also with the performances of the team, that it allows us to be patient..."

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📢 Marsch on Bamford: "...we will still have a call to make for exactly what it means for this weekend.

"We want to put him in the best position possible to physically pick up where he left off."

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📢 Marsch on injuries: "Junior [Firpo], Luke [Ayling], we think that they will potentially be in training next week. And potentially Mateusz Bogusz too. Stuart [Dallas] is still months away. Yeah [Liam Cooper came through the cup game okay]..."

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📢 Marsch on Cooper: "...the idea was 30 to 45 minutes. At 30 minutes he looked really strong, so we went with 45. He feels great.

"He’ll be ready for this weekend. Again, [we must] figure out exactly what his role is going to be."

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📢 Marsch asked how big an impact Sinisterra can have: "Huge. We knew we already had a fantastic player. It’s not been so easy for our fans and the media to see him up close.

"We see him every day and I was not surprised at all that..."

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📢 Marsch on Sinisterra: "...he was the man of the match [against Barnsley in the cup]. He played a big part in all three goals.

"We think very, very highly of him. He is driven to continue to adapt and grow within our system..."

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📢 Marsch on Sinisterra: "...and within our environment.

"Will it be this weekend [that he starts]? Let’s see how he gets out of the 60 minutes [that he played] – I think the 60 minutes were incredibly important and valuable for him..."

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📢 Marsch on Sinisterra: "...let’s see where he’s at physically. But for sure I think he becomes a bigger and bigger option, to have a bigger and bigger role in what we’re doing with our team.

"I always think the most important thing is..."

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📢 Marsch on Sinisterra: "...that the players are proving themselves internally. That the other players see how good you are and how important you can become to the team. And Luis has done that in a big way..."

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📢 Marsch on Sinisterra: "...I think we need to just monitor him physically but regardless, we’ll be ready to use him in a big role this weekend."

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📢 Marsch on Leeds training under Bielsa: "In my experience, the reality of it was that the team was done. Physically, emotionally, everything.

"The first thing I had to do was try to mould them in my vision and how they needed to..."

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📢 Marsch on Leeds training under Bielsa: "...come out of that.

"And then with a long-term focus on how to modify them to become the types of athletes we need to perform the football that we want to play..."

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📢 Marsch: "...we’re getting to the point where I feel strongly about how they’re able to perform, just from a physical standpoint."

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on injury news: "We’ve got an issue around James Maddison. We’ll see how that is tomorrow [Friday].

"Hopefully he’ll be okay but that would be the only doubt..."

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📢 Rodgers on Maddison: "...he just a felt a twinge yesterday when he was training, so we’ll have to see what that looks like tomorrow."

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📢 Rodgers on Wesley Fofana: "He won’t be available for the weekend. He has trained with our under-23 squad."

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🇦🇹 Southampton

📢 Ralph Hasenhuttl on team news: "Romain [Perraud] is back in training.

"This is good to see, because he was out with groin problems but today [Thursday] he looked good..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on team news: "...he wasn’t ready for the cup game so we tried to give him a good session on Tuesday and now we will see if he is ready for this [weekend]."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Che Adams: "He had a big impact after coming on [against Leicester]. He showed against Cambridge [in the cup] that he can score goals. It's a sign of him feeling confident."

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🍒 Bournemouth

📢 Scott Parker on Dominic Solanke: "Dom will train with us tomorrow [Friday], first time in full training so hopefully if he comes through that he could be an option for us."

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📢 Parker on other injuries: "They [Fredericks, Joe Rothwell, Junior Stanislas] still won’t make the weekend, they are still behind in that sense.

"They are getting very close, Ryan is probably the closest so hopefully he’s not too far away."

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