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🧵 Pre-match press conference embargo thread Gameweek 15

💠 Man City

📢 Guardiola asked how Erling Haaland is handling injury situation: "He wants to play but he's injured...or was injured. So in that moment, he is relaxed..."

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📢 Guardiola asked how Erling Haaland is handling injury situation: "...he wants to play - like everyone - but he is not ready, he cannot help so focus and recover.

"It's not a big issue to happen in the period..."

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📢 Guardiola asked how Erling Haaland is handling injury situation: "...last season in Dortmund, many times he was injured. This is the problem.

"But so far it's been good - has had a little setback but he will be back..."

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📢 Guardiola asked how Erling Haaland is handling injury situation: "...I don't know if it's tomorrow - we will see this afternoon - or next week.

"I need the training session - talk to him, talk to doctors, take a decision."

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📢 Guardiola on rotating in central defence: "Sometimes you suspect we will need more in the build-up, maybe for the way [the opposition] are going to defend.

"Other [games] you need to win more duels, need more..."

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📢 Guardiola on rotating in central defence: "...characteristics defensively. Rotation - I want everyone involved.

"It is not much different between all of them. All of them are really good. Everyone has his own skills but..."

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📢 Guardiola on rotating in central defence: "...it's not much difference between them.

"Ruben [Dias] is reliable, 100 per cent since he arrived. But now we have Manu [Akanji], have John [Stones]...of course now we don't..."

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📢 Guardiola on rotating in central defence: "...have Kyle [Walker] but he can play [as a] central defender.

"I rely on all of them. Everyone can play all the games in different circumstances."

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📢 Guardiola on Julian Alvarez: "I know Erling [Haaland] has been exceptional so far but [they] can play together.

"For the last game against Sevilla, for example, we put almost three or four strikers there - Cole Palmer..."

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📢 Guardiola on Alvarez: "...close to Julian, Phil [Foden] was there closer in that position.

"So they [Haaland and Alvarez] can play together. Absolutely yes."

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🇦🇹 Southampton

📢 Ralph Hasenhuttl on Gavin Bazunu: "I think with the ball, he can be calmer in some moments.

"It’s his first season in the Premier League and sometimes it’s not so easy to stay always that cool but..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Bazunu: "...we are demanding this and asking for this.

"But he has a very good long goal kick so it is a very good package I must say..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Bazunu: "...from the first day he was here, he showed he had belief in his own qualities.

"He has a very grounded character. He’s a goalkeeper with a lot of potential and still a lot of things to improve."

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🏮 Man Utd

📢 Erik ten Hag asked if there is any team news from Spain or in Manchester: "No. not really. We are preparing for the next game and we have to get ready for the next game. We need to get focused and get the..."

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📢 Ten Hag asked if there is any team news from Spain or in Manchester: "...energy so we will be [doing that]. We have training here [in Spain], have a recovery session, they do it well and then fly back and be ready for Sunday."

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📢 Ten Hag on Antony, Jadon Sancho, Anthony Martial: "We will see tomorrow [Saturday]. They work at Carrington and then we will see how they recover and then we will pick a team."

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📢 Ten Hag on Alejandro Garnacho: "We have some young players so they have to fight, we have to see them every day and when they do, they come in.

"Especially as an attacking player in the front line as we have some..."

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📢 Ten Hag on Garnacho: "...problems [there] with numbers, some injuries and some illness.

"So I’m really happy with the performance and development of [Alejandro]..."

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📢 Ten Hag on Garnacho: "...I hope he can keep this process going and then we have the extra option. That is what we need."

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📢 Ten Hag on defensive record: "We defend with 11, starting with Cristiano [Ronaldo] up front. So we are hard to beat as a team.

"I think that’s a compliment but it’s also that process we have to keep going..."

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📢 Ten Hag on defensive record: "...that makes it hard to beat us because everyone is convinced of that plan, everyone is disciplined in that plan.

"When we play with the desire and passion, we are hard to beat..."

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📢 Ten Hag on defensive record: "...and that makes us, in this moment, successful."

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☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Unai Emery on injuries: "Our big injury is Diego Carlos. I think it is a very good recruitment the club made but he’s injured.

"My players have been doing training sessions this week..."

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📢 Emery on injuries: "...Ludwig Augustinsson and Boubacar Kamara, I think they will be close to playing but I don’t know exactly the first eleven to start the match."

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🍒 Bournemouth

📢 Gary O'Neil on Brooks: "David is coming along really well. We haven’t put a timeframe on it because he can be assessed during the break.

"It’s a unique situation this season, with a mini break and a..."

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📢 O'Neil on Brooks: "...mini pre-season, which will give everybody with niggles a chance to recover and make sure they’re in prime condition when we come back."

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🐺 Wolves

📢 Steve Davis on Adama Traore: "He’s an important player for what we’re doing at the moment.

"That’s the key, we’ve told him that and he’s become a focal point in how we want to play..."

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📢 Davis on Adama Traore: "...he responds to that little bit of love and he seems to have responded quite well to it!

"He’s also a focal point for the opposition; if you’re one on one, you know you’ll be in trouble..."

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📢 Davis on Adama Traore: "...he attracts and drags other people across, to allow space for other people as well.

"All we’ve done is speak to him, tell him how much we need him to play and play well, and how important he is..."

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📢 Davis on Adama Traore: "...to the team and how he fits into what we’re trying to do."

On Raul Jimenez: "It would be unfair to set timescales. He’ll be ready when he’s ready."

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📢 Davis on Toti Gomes: "He’s progressing well. I think he’s going to train on Sunday, so hopefully we’ll have him back for Wednesday or Saturday."

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📢 Davis on Pedro Neto: "For him, it’s more about how his mental health is.

"How is he with his mental health, is he coming to the ground and being around us and are people upbeat and positive?..."

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📢 Davis on Pedro Neto: "...that’s all you can be when someone gets another injury, on top of an injury when he was out for so long. We’re gutted for him."

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🌞 Brighton

📢 Roberto de Zerbi on Sarmiento: "[Jeremy] is a good, young player. A young player needs to have the possibility to show their quality.

"I like to give them the possibility to play, to show their quality..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Sarmiento: "...for [Julio] Enciso, for example, or [Tariq] Lamptey.

"I don't want him to think about making a mistake, I want him to play without problems or fear. I know his potential and I want him to show it."

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📘 Everton

📢 Frank Lampard: "This is the strongest squad I’ve been able to name since I’ve been at the club.

"We’ve got a pretty clean bill of health, fitness-wise now, we’ve got some competition in areas of the pitch..."

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📢 Lampard: "...that wasn’t there last season. That’s now for me to manage that - manage the squad, managing in-game and managing players that want to play more minutes because a good problem can sometimes give you other issues."

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on defensive improvements: "A number of our goals [conceded] were in transition and being more open.

"We’ve been able to close the pitch much better while retaining our idea to attack the games."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Vieira on how club can convince Zaha to sign new deal: "It’s about where we want to go next. It’s about the way we play the game, about him enjoying his football - scoring goals. Then he has to make his decision."

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