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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Double Gameweek 20

🐻‍❄️ Leeds

📢 Jesse Marsch on Crysencio Summerville: "Cree is out for a month probably..."

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📢 Marsch on Summerville: "...he’s hopeful that it will be quicker than a month but that’s what the prognosis is right now."

On Bamford: "Patrick is back in training and will be in the squad [for Aston Villa in Gameweek 20]."

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📢 Marsch on Sinisterra: " Luis is getting closer and closer but not quite ready."

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📢 Marsch on Illan Meslier fitness: "He's ready to play."

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📢 Marsch on Max Wober position: "[His most comfortable role] is probably centre-back.

"I also know that he can be impactul at left-back in a big way.

"I also know that he can play the six [midfield role]."

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📢 Marsch on Wober: "I want to figure out a way to incorporate Max quickly, because I think he can be part of us moving forward in a positive manner.

"I also know that we're getting a lot out of other guys and I want to get that balance right."

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☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Unai Emery on team news: "[John] McGinn is out. [Matty] Cash is a doubt for tomorrow.

"[Leander] Dendoncker is also suspended after his red card on Sunday..."

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📢 Emery on team news: "...Diego Carlos is getting better but it will be a month or two before he is with us.

"Jed Steer is starting to train with us in one or two weeks."

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📢 Emery on new left-back Moreno: "Alex, his transfer is coming today, we’re waiting for it. Maybe he will be in the squad.

"In La Liga he was a very important player. We have two left-backs, Lucas Digne and Ludwig Augustinsson..."

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📢 Emery on Moreno: "...but the profile is similar with them.

"I spoke with Augustinsson about the possibility to leave – he is on loan here from Sevilla – because I wanted to sign a different profile, trying to be more offensive..."

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📢 Emery on Moreno: "...in the attacking third, to have a player who can use this side and be more offensive is the reason.

"We were thinking about other players but Alex Moreno is the player we were focused to try to add for the squad."

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😇 Southampton

📢 Nathan Jones on new signing Carlos Alcaraz: "He should be [available]. We're just waiting for Visa things and stuff like that. Hopefully he is."

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📢 Jones on Romeo Lavia substitution: "It was pre-empted that he would play 60 minutes.

"If we had tried to play him for 90 minutes, then we could have lost him for the weekend but we were not going to do that..."

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📢 Jones on Lavia substitution: "...and we were able to use the squad and give others some minutes, including Mislav Orsic - which will have done him the world of good."

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on James Maddison: "He is progressing well but he won’t be available for the [Nottingham Forest] game.

"No [there’s no timeline]. No [he's not training]. He’s still with the medical team."

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📢 Rodgers on Dennis Praet: "Back in training with the squad, his first day [was] this morning.

"We'll see how he is later, after the session."

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📢 Rodgers on Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall: "No, he's not back yet either. He won’t be training tomorrow, it’ll be some time next week."

On Perez: "Ayoze, we just have to keep an eye on after the game the other night. We’ll see where he’s at tomorrow."

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📢 Rodgers on Dewsbury-Hall absence: "You miss the energy that he brings to the game.

"Since he came in, he’s brought a real enthusiasm for the game.

"He loves the club and you see that in his game. He has that ability to keep going..."

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📢 Rodgers on Dewsbury-Hall absence: "...he is a miss when he doesn’t play but we can’t think about that, because he’s not available. We have to find a different solution."

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🌲 Nottingham Forest

📢 Steve Cooper on team news: "We've got an injury record that we're not particularly fond of and that may have been added to last night.

"We haven't assessed the players yet because they're in a little bit later..."

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📢 Cooper on team news: "...so there's no news of absolute guarantees of player availability from last night.

"Fingers crossed on a couple of things."

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📢 Cooper asked about Jesse Lingard's fitness: "The lads who have been out injured won't be available for the weekend."

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