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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Double Gameweek 20 [Friday]

🏰 Newcastle

📢 Eddie Howe on Joelinton availability after drink-driving charge: "I’m not 100 per cent sure..."

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📢 Howe on Joelinton availability after drink-driving charge: "...I’m going to have to reflect and analyse on that. I’ll make a decision closer to the game, in consultation with him. Joe was very upset yesterday."

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📢 Howe on Alexander Isak: "He's responded very well physically, there's been no ill effects [from the minutes he has played].

"He's trained well this week off the back of that [cup] cameoo.

"I think we have to be very careful with him..."

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📢 Howe on Isak: "...just with the length of time he's been out, the type of injury he had.

"He's done all the work, he's looked in good condition. He looks confident, he's very keen to be involved.

"We need him for the long term and..."

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📢 Howe on Isak: "...it's great to have a very strong choice in the centre-forward unit at the moment."

Asked if Isak and Wilson can play together: "Of course they could be on the pitch together. I have to evaluate every game and every..."

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📢 Howe asked if Isak and Wilson can play together: "...situation that we face and try and balance the fact that you want two attackers on the pitch but you don't want to damage the balance of the team.

"Two outstanding players in their own..."

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📢 Howe asked if Isak and Wilson can play together: "...right. In the [cup] game I decided to replace Callum - nursing him back from a bad illness - and I thought Callum did well and Alex did well. Both players respectively are looking good."

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📢 Howe on injuries/fitness/availability: "Matt Targett and Jonjo Shelvey continue their journies back. I think they've both respectively been doing well but they're still some time away.

"Apart from that, I think we're pretty much okay."

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🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Darwin Nunez: "If he cannot train today, that would rule him out.

"We are waiting for information. It's not a major one but it has still kept him out of training.

"We have to wait."

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📢 Klopp on other injuries: "Milly [James Milner] yesterday did big parts of training and will be back in normal training today.

"Bobby [Firmino], not [back yet].

"Stefan [Bajcetic] will be back in training today.

"That's it, pretty much."

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📢 Klopp on squad fitness: "I hope that the players who were available during the week, at least, will stay available."

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📢 Klopp on Roberto Firmino injury: "Still [far away from being available]. In the first moment, it was a little injury; estimated 10 days, two weeks.

"Did the normal rehab stuff, all the experts told us what we can do. And then, Bobby felt..."

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📢 Klopp on Firmino injury: "...[something] again. That kept him out for longer.

"He is not close to team training."

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📢 Klopp on Salah: "Mo is sharp, Mo is fit – still, even after all these years, all these games. That is very important.

"The most important thing is that he’s really available, pretty much always."

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📢 Klopp on Liverpool form: "We are not the most shiny star because we don't play exactly the football people expect, or we expect as well.

"But we have good moments. And we have to fight through this. We have more problems that other teams..."

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📢 Klopp on Liverpool form: "...in this moment. We have had to deal with injuries in decisive positions - we had a midfield crisis, now attackers not there, stuff like this.

"It's really not easy at the moment. But there are still millions of..."

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📢 Klopp on Liverpool form: "...ways to win a football match and we only need to find one. I'm confident we can find that. But we don't compare oursevles with our best verison of last season or stuff like this - it's completely different [now]..."

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📢 Klopp on Liverpool form: "...it's a different time. We are here to give it a proper go and we will not stop with that. Even when nobody wants to hear that.

"I know when we talk about Liverpool, everyone wants to hear, 'can we win this'..."

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📢 Klopp on Liverpool form: "...'can we win that, can we win this' - in the moment, really, everybody has to realise the only thing we have to win is the next game. That's all we have to be interested in. We'll win football games again, I'm sure."

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📢 Klopp on injuries: "We have, on top of that, the problem that in the moment, four of our offensive players [Firmino, Jota, Diaz, Nunez] are injured.

"Then we buy another one - then they come back; not tomorrow but they will come back..."

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📢 Klopp on injuries: "...Darwin [Nunez] soon, the others a little bit later.

"We could end up with seven strikers then [so we're not doing that]. We cannot solve problems with injuries through the transfer window."

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🐖 Fulham

📢 Marco Silva on #PL schedule: "It will be difficult for us because I almost don’t have time to prepare the game. It’s unfair for us to start that game at 2pm on Sunday. The way they scheduled the game against Chelsea for a Thursday..."

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📢 Silva on #PL schedule: "...night, it is difficult to understand.

"After such a busy period, after the World Cup, playing every three days - a game that wasn't scheduled [which] they decided to put on a Thursday night - two and a half days..."

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📢 Silva on #PL schedule: "...before the Newcastle match. It will be difficult.

"We finished the game yesterday at 10pm and we are going to start a game at 2pm [on Sunday]. It is not taking care of the players. It is really dangerous..."

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📢 Silva on #PL schedule: "...I have to say, it is really dangerous for the players that they are going to start the game again at 2pm.

"You have to take care of the players if you want to see good games, if you want to have them in the best..."

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📢 Silva on #PL schedule: "...phyiscal conditions - you have to take care of the players.

"With this time between both games, you are not taking care of the players. It is really dangerous.

"And it's not fair for us to have such a different..."

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📢 Silva on #PL schedule: "...[amount of] time than Newcastle to prepare the game and have their players in the best physical [condition possible]."

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🍒 Bournemouth

📢 Gary O'Neil on team news: "We’ll have to wait and see. We have a couple of late calls; that seems to be the way at the moment. We’ve had a bit of a tough spell on that front, certainly this season we’ve had some tricky situations with injuries."

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💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola on John Stones: "He is not ready."

On team news, other injuries: "I think everyone else is fit."

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🏮 Man Utd

📢 Erik ten Hag on team news, injuries: "Diogo Dalot is not available.

"Anthony Martial, he trained this morning so we have to wait - see how he recovers from his training, if he's available...that will be decided tomorrow."

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📢 Ten Hag on Martial injury issue: "It's a small thing in his leg.

"[We will see] if he is available for tomorrow [Man City] or otherwise, he will be available for Wednesday [Crystal Palace] I think."

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📢 Ten Hag on Wout Weghorst signing: "I think we are close. He will not be available for tomorrow."

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📢 Ten Hag asked what plan is if Martial's ruled out of Manchester derby: "We are winning a lot of games without Anthony."

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🐝 Brentford

📢 Thomas Frank on Toney: "Ivan is fit and available and will start tomorrow, so I just named one out of [the starting] 11."

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📢 Frank on other team news, injuries: "[Shandon] Baptiste is in a good place. He’s trained fully for a week and will hopefully be ready for selection soon.

"[Aaron] Hickey is also training fully and will play for the B team..."

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📢 Frank on other team news, injuries: "...tonight [Friday]. He [Hickey] is progressing but he’s not ready for tomorrow.

"[Frank] Onyeka is still a few weeks from potentially being involved in the squad..."

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📢 Frank on other team news, injuries: "...Pontus Jansson is progressing but unfortunately he’s not available yet."

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🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Antonio Conte on injuries, Kulusevski: "The news is that the situation is going to improve - especially for Deki Kulusevski. He had training sessions in the last few days with us..."

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📢 Conte on injuries: "...I think he [Kulusevski] is going to be ready to play.

"About Richy [Richarlison] and Rodrigo [Bentancur] - both situations are improving.

"I think in this moment, Deki is much..."

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📢 Conte on injuries: "...more ready to play. Especially, [we] don't [want to] take risks [with Richarlison or Bentancur]. I think it will be very important for us to have patience.

"We lost these important players for a long..."

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📢 Conte on injuries: "...period. Now, to accelerate the process to recover and risk to lose them for a long period again - that [would not] be positive.

"We have another training session tomorrrow to monitor well the situation..."

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📢 Conte on injuries: "...about Rodrigo [Bentancur] and Richy [Richarlison]."

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🌞 Brighton

📢 Roberto de Zerbi on Trossard: "Leandro isn't on the [squad] list of players for tomorrow [against Liverpool].

"The last training session before the Middlesbrough game, when he understood he [wasn't going to] play..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Trossard: "...he left the session without saying anything. That's not good.

"On Monday, I spoke with him and I explained that this attitude, this behaviour I don't like.

"He knows very well that if he wants to play..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Trossard: "...with Brighton, with me, he has to work harder, he has to run, he has to be in the right way.

"Because we are not a big team - Real Madrid or Barcelona - we are Brighton. We need players who work like the players..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Trossard: "...[that are in the squad]. I don't know what is the problem [with Leandro].

"I am open with him. I am open to take a step back. He has to understand, I only want players who work hard and play 100 per cent..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Trossard: "...for the team. I don't know if he wants to change teams or not; it is not my problem."

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🔫 Arsenal

📢 Mikel Arteta on the fitness of Bukayo Saka for the north London derby: "I think he will be okay."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury: "He’s progressing really well. He’s working really hard.

"He’s in the right place in his recovery regarding the time that we set for him but he’s still a bit far [away] to be back..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury: "...I would like to see him very quickly but I don’t think that’s going to happen.

"We’re going to have to be patient with that one. With every surgery there are always a lot of things you have to be very..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury: "...cautious with, especially in the first few weeks.

"He’s going to push everybody there to be on the pitch really [soon] but we have to be cautious as well."

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📢 Arteta on return of Emile Smith Rowe: "It’s great to have him back. He felt good [in the FA Cup], they were his first minutes after four months.

"He’s worked so hard to be in the position he is today. Now we need to give him minutes and..."

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📢 Arteta on return of Smith Rowe: "...we need to get him back in the team, because he’s a very important player for us."

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🐝 Brentford

📢 Thomas Frank on potential Toney ban over gambling charges: "We know the situation with Ivan [but] we don’t know what will be the final decision.

"We did very good business with Kevin Schade. He's a player we..."

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📢 Frank on potential Toney ban over gambling charges: "...wanted in to make our squad as strong as possible - with or without Ivan Toney.

"We would like him [Schade] to be there with Ivan but also, we covered ourselves..."

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📢 Frank on potential Toney ban over gambling charges: "...a little bit more, if something should happen."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Patrick Vieira on team news: "Everybody from the last game has been training all week.

"We have had Tyrick [Mitchell] with us. His suspension is over, so he will be part of the team."

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🐺 Wolves

📢 Julen Lopetegui on team news: "We have [some] problems but that’s why we have to check. When you play every three days, this is normal and we are in this moment because we have played a very hard match just 48 hours before..."

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📢 Lopetegui on team news: "...[Diego Costa] has worked today a bit with us. At the moment, we don’t know what the squad list will be and we’ll have to think a little bit more about this..."

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📢 Lopetegui on team news: "...we are going to make the decision in the next few hours and after this, of course, the line-up."

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📘 Everton

📢 Frank Lampard on Iwobi: "Alex is a lesser injury than what we thought, so we'll see in the morning if he's ready to play tomorrow."

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📢 Lampard on Calvert-Lewin: "Dominic's had a good week. We played three games in six days going into Man United, so we had to be careful with that one.

"He's in a good place, he's had a nice week's training, we're managing him as well as we..."

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📢 Lampard on Calvert-Lewin: "...possibly can - he's fit."

On Townsend: "Andros is still a few weeks away."

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🌉 Chelsea

📢 Graham Potter on Christian Pulisic: "He's a couple of months out. He's optimistic that he can come back quicker than the two months."

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