Thread by @ColmVHayes

🧵 Pre-match press conference embargo thread Gameweek 11 [Friday]

🌉 Chelsea

📢 Graham Potter on Reece James: "I think it’s pretty normal that as soon as there’s a bit of discomfort a day or two after, you get it checked properly..."

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📢 Potter on Reece James: "...so that’s what we’ll do. It normally takes 24 or 48 hours to settle down.

"He’s been in fantastic form for us. I’ve really enjoyed working with him and really enjoyed how he’s played, so fingers crossed..."

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📢 Potter on Reece James: "...we’ll [hopefully get] good news.

"He's a player with world-class attributes and the way he defended against [Wilfried] Zaha and against [Rafael] Leao in both games against Milan is high level, plus he..."

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📢 Potter on Reece James: "...can still contribute in the attacking phase.

"I thought the first half especially the other night [against Milan] he was amazing, him and Mason down that right side did really well."

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📢 Potter: "It would be wrong of me to say that we’re not going to miss players like Reece [James] and N’Golo [Kante].

"That’s normal, and Wesley Fofana as well but that’s the job of the squad and it’s my challenge to find a..."

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📢 Potter: "...different solution. We haven’t got another Reece James or N’Golo Kante so you have to find a different way of working within the team. Tactically it’s a challenge but it’s one we’re up for, we have to find those solutions."

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🐺 Wolves

📢 Steve Davis on Jose Sa having a fractured wrist: "Most of the players will have something and it’s important to know that there’s different pain elements to it.

"There’s different bones in the wrist that would be less..."

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📢 Davis on Sa having a fractured wrist: "...likely to break than others, or less of a problem.

"In the end, the medical staff, the coach and the player will sit down and make a decision on whether that player can carry on with..."

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📢 Davis on Sa having a fractured wrist: "...that particular injury. If they are all comfortable that he can play, then that’s what happens.

"I’ve played with broken toes in the past, it’s a bit about pain tolerance as well and how..."

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📢 Davis on Sa having a fractured wrist: "...much you can stand. I’m not sure where he is at the moment with it but previously it was a problem. The decision is made by the medical team, myself or the coach at the time and the player..."

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📢 Davis on Sa having a fractured wrist: "...it shows his character. As a goalkeeper, generally you’re always in the firing line.

“For him to do that and get on with it shows the courage he has got and the determination he has to..."

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📢 Davis on Sa having a fractured wrist: "...turn things around.

"It’s always a good example to others to say, ‘you might have this or that but we need you'. We need everyone available."

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📢 Davis on Goncalo Guedes: "He’s back now. He was struggling with respiratory problems at half time [against Chelsea] and was on the onset of a heavy cold."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Patrick Vieira on Wilfried Zaha being out of contract at end of season: "He knows what we think about him, and he will have to think as well about what he wants to do. He is somebody that we will do everything..."

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📢 Vieira on Zaha being out of contract at end of season: "...to keep. He is important, not just for my plans but for the club. He has been performing as well; that side of the game is really important.

"The decision has to be his."

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📢 Vieira on Nathan Ferguson: "We didn’t do very much today [Friday] but he did a full session with the team. It was too short for him to be involved in the game tomorrow.

"From next week, he will do the full session with the team."

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📢 Vieira on Ferguson: "With the injury experiences that he has had over the last couple of years, we have to build him up slowly."

On Chris Richards: "He has started doing some work on the field but is still a couple of weeks short."

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🏰 Newcastle

📢 Eddie Howe on Kieran Trippier: "Just look at his performances this year, he’s been incredible.

"Even last year, in the brief time he played, he made a massive impact both on the pitch and off it, in terms of his..."

#fpl #gw11 #fantasypl #nufc #MunNew #gw12

📢 Howe on Trippier: "...leadership. He’s continued to do the same and we’re seeing more of him, because he’s been fitter for longer.

"Just look at the first goal - which is always a game-changer- that we scored against Brentford..."

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📢 Howe on Trippier: "...it was his cross from the short corner - and it can really be underestimated how difficult that skill is - to put it exactly where Bruno [Guimaraes] needed it to be to score.

"It was an incredible highlight..."

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📢 Howe on Trippier: "...of his technical quality. But also, his defending is of a very good level and I can’t speak highly enough of him."

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on his first-choice XI: "I think it is good when you don’t know. You want the competition and you want players to feel that.

"For me to turn around and say, 'I know my best eleven’ would be naive..."

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📢 Moyes on his best XI: "...that makes the other players think that they are not getting in the team.

"It is open for everyone to challenge and be a first-team player.

"Europe is giving them a chance to do that and even if you..."

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📢 Moyes on his first-choice XI: "...do pick a best eleven, two or three of those may get injured.

"Its not a particularly good [phrase] to use, the ‘best eleven’, because quite often in a season you need other players and you..."

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📢 Moyes on his first-choice XI: "...don’t get your best eleven fit all the time.

"When you look at what we are doing, we are changing the team mainly for Europe..."

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📢 Moyes on his first-choice XI: "...in the Premier League games, the changes have come through injury most of the time."

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🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Antonio Conte on Richarlison: "I think when we play with three strikers, you have to know that your type of game is more direct.

"Not with a lot of possession because you have three strikers, only two midfielders..."

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📢 Conte on Richarlison: "...on one side, you control the game less but on another side you have three strikers with Son, Harry [Kane] and Richarlison.

"With the rest of the team, we have to put them in the best situation to score..."

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📢 Conte on Richarlison: "...at the start I had some doubts to put them all together but when it happened, I had always a great answer about Richy, Sonny and Kane because we are talking about three strikers but three [players] who..."

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📢 Conte on Richarlison, Son, Kane: "...work a lot for the team. This is why I think we can play with these three strikers because they give us a lot of potential offensively but at the same time, defensively, we have a good balance."

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☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Steven Gerrard: "I know certain players are not in the form they should be in.

"Have I given them too much support in some people’s eyes? I would have to accept that..."

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📢 Gerrard: "...but there’s also an experience from myself that sometimes you’ve got to play through it.

"If people want to criticise me for being too loyal to one or two individuals, there will be a reason for it..."

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📢 Gerrard: "...it’s not favouritisim, it’s because of the importance that they have in the team and where I need to get them to for the team to be better..."

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📢 Gerrard: "...but I’ll never be a manager who is scared to drop a name or a big name. Not at all. If that’s the case or that’s your opinion of me, trust me, you’re wrong."

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