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🧵Pre-match press conference thread Double Gameweek 27 [Friday]

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🌞 Brighton

📢 Roberto de Zerbi asked for a fitness update on March, Lamptey, Colwill: "Solly, Levi are [on] the [squad] list [for Leeds].

"Tariq, I don't know. We have to see in this training, the last training."

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📢 De Zerbi asked if Colwill will be in the squad for Leeds: "Maybe. I want to see this morning. The last week, he played with the under-21s."

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📢 De Zerbi asked about snow in Leeds: "We will play with a yellow ball! No problem."

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📢 De Zerbi on Sanchez, Steele: "One of [my] best relationships in the dressing room is with Robert.

"But I have to do my work. In this moment, I prefer Jason. [It is] only for our style of play..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Sanchez, Steele: "...I think Robert can improve - has to improve in this part of the football. For me, for us and for him.

"There aren't problems with him. I was clear and honest with him, and with Jason too..."

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📢 De Zerbi on Sanchez, Steele: "...Jason's one of the 20 players in the squad, he has to have the possiblity to play. He's playing well - very well. Robert too but in this moment, I think Jason can play better."

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🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on Gomez, Diaz, Thiago: "All three not available. [They are at] different stages, I would say.

"Joey might be able to train at the beginning of [next] week.

"Luis, I hope during next week [can join training]..."

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📢 Klopp on Gomez, Diaz, Thiago: "...yes, after international break for both [Joe and Luis] possible.

"Thiago, we will see. None of them trained yet with the team. We will see how that develops in the next couple of weeks."

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📢 Klopp on other team news: "Apart from that, from the last game, nothing that I heard about."

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🏰 Newcastle

📢 Eddie Howe asked if Fabian Schar will be in squad for Wolves: "Yeah, we hope so. He has trained well this week."

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📢 Howe asked if Newcastle have any fresh injury concerns: "We've had a couple of knocks from the Manchester City game. We hope nothing too serious."

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📢 Howe asked if Bruno Guimaraes is managing an ongoing ankle injury: "I think he's fine. I don't think he's missed any training from that ankle [second time around]. It was sore initially against Man Utd but he was back training, no problem..."

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📢 Howe asked if Bruno Guimaraes is managing an ongoing ankle injury: "...I think the initial one - can't remember who it was against - that kept him out of some training. Touch wood, I don't see a problem or a long-term problem for him with it."

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💠 Man City

📢 Pep Guardiola asked if Phil Foden is fit for Crystal Palace: "Yeah - apparently he’s okay, yeah."

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🏰 Newcastle

📢 Howe on Alexander Isak: "Is he 100 per cent ready to play 90 minutes on a consistent basis? Probably not.

"But he will get there - we'll build him to that level."

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📢 Howe asked if he could expand on knocks/team news: "No, not really. Not right now."

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🌉 Chelsea

📢 Graham Potter on James: "Reece has been ill. He hasn't trained today so won't make the [Leicester] game tomorrow."

On Sterling: "Raheem had a little feeling in his hamstring, more tightness than anything..."

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📢 Potter on Sterling: "...so [Raheem] is looking doubtful for tomorrow as well."

On Aubameyang: "Slight problem with his back so again, he's looking like he'll miss the game.

"Apart from that, everybody is okay."

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📢 Potter asked if N'Golo Kante will be in the squad: "No - no, he won't. Still needs some more time to build up.

"We're aiming maybe towards Everton [Blank Gameweek 28] but unfortunately, not for tomorrow."

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📢 Potter on Mason Mount: "At the moment, he's suffering with a slight injury.

"He probably needs a little bit more time before he's available properly."

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📢 Potter on playing a back three: "We've played that at times this season. Personnel - I mean, Thiago [Silva] getting injured meant that we had to adjust things. At the moment, I think it [that formation] is suiting us quite well, it's working..."

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📢 Potter on playing a back three: "...defensively, we're up there [among] the best teams in the Premier League. That's something to be positive about. Consistency always helps."

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🏮 Man Utd [embargoed from Thursday]

📢 Erik ten Hag on Anthony Martial: "Yeah [he could play] but all the time we had a good plan and until now it [didn’t] always [work well]. He's on his way back, he's back in training but we will be cautious."

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📢 Ten Hag on Christian Eriksen injury return: "I think he will play [before the end of the season], definitely.

"I can't tell now an expectation [timescale] but I think his progress in the rehab is okay. It is going according to plan..."

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📢 Ten Hag on Eriksen injury return: "...so definitely we will see him [before the end of the season]. But not before the international break."

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📢 Ten Hag on Weghorst: "He is physically capable to play a lot. He is a very fit player, he recovers very well. I expected he will play a lot but we have an injury with Martial, so it's obvious that's the main reason why he's playing every game."

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📢 Ten Hag on Bruno Fernandes: "I think he has so many skills and now, scoring with his head from a corner [against Real Betis].

"I think he scores with his right, with his left, with his head. He is [also] creating final passes [assists]."

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🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Antonio Conte on team news: "Emerson [Royal] didn't have training session today, because he had a kick. Today he wasn’t available for the training session.

"Tomorrow morning, we will try him to see if he is available..."

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📢 Conte on team news: "...at least for the bench [Emerson Royal], to help us.

"Another situation we have to monitor is about [Ivan] Perisic. He had a training session today but tomorrow for sure, I want to speak to him to understand..."

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📢 Conte on team news: "...if he [Perisic] is also available for the bench.

"And then we have some injuries. [Hugo] Lloris out, [Yves] Bissouma out, [Rodrigo] Bentancur out, [Ryan] Sessegnon out."

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🐺 Wolves

📢 Julen Lopetegui on team news: "Diego Costa is out. Fortunately it's not a very severe [knee] injury but he's out for two, three, four weeks maybe."

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🍒 Bournemouth

📢 Gary O'Neil on team news: "Tav [Marcus Tavernier] will still be out. Junior Traore will still be out.

"Jeff [Lerma] is touch and go. Jeff has not done as much as you would like. But he’s further along than the others so..."

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📢 O'Neil on team news: "...we’ll make a call on Jeff [Lerma] tomorrow.

"Lewis Cook is still back, so it’s good to have Lew still.

"The rest should be fairly similar to where we were last week."

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☔️ Aston Villa

📢 Unai Emery on team news: "[Boubacar] Kamara is not ready for Sunday but he is going well, his injury is going well.

"I was speaking to him this morning and it’s going well but not enough for Sunday..."

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📢 Emery on team news: "...Diego Carlos is training every day, with his process, being comfortable. He’s a possibility on Sunday, for the first time, included in the squad.

"[Philippe] Coutinho is still injured. [Leander] Dendoncker is a doubt."

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🔮 Crystal Palace

📢 Patrick Vieira on team news: "The majority of the players trained all week.

"Sam [Johnstone] has still got a couple of weeks to go. He didn’t train with the team yet and I think he will need some individual work for..."

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📢 Vieira on team news: "...the next couple of weeks.

"Will Hughes was sick at the start of the week. He trained today and we’ll have to see how he feels tomorrow."

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😇 Southampton

📢 Ruben Selles on team news: "In the case of Tino [Livramento] and Juan [Larios], they are still out of the team and won't be with us in the next few weeks.

"Charly [Alcaraz] is doing better, he was with us today..."

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📢 Selles on team news: "... in training. We still need to see if he [Alcaraz] will be with us for the final session and in the squad on Sunday or not.

"Everyone else is available."

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📢 Selles on Alcaraz knee injury: "If he is not fit for this game then, for sure, he will be fit for the midweek game against Brentford."

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🐖 Fulham

📢 No fresh injury concerns for Marco Silva

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes [post-match, Thursday] on Michail Antonio: "He’s just come off with a calf there. I was taking him off anyway but he felt his calf, so we’ll need to check it out."

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📢 Moyes on Paqueta: "[Lucas] also felt his calf when he went through on goal but hopefully he’ll be okay."

On Downes: "Flynn has got a bit of cut [on his ankle], which might need a couple of stitches or gluing back together."

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🔫 Arsenal

📢 The pre-Fulham section of Mikel Arteta's press conference from Thursday night is under embargo, likely until Saturday - not sure what time

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🔫 Arsenal [Sat]

📢 Mikel Arteta on Odegaard and Kieran Tierney: "I hope they [will be available].

"Martin was feeling better, then he became a little bit worse. Hopefully he's able to train today [Saturday]."

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📢 Arteta on Jesus, Nketiah, Trossard injuries: "Eddie is out as well. So we have Gabi out, Eddie out and Leo is out."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury return: "The reality is that when he started to do some activity, he's still feeling that he needs a little bit more time. Is that a matter of days? Hopefully yes, [rather] than..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury return: "...a matter of weeks. He needs to feel confident, comfortable and ready for it - especially with the way he plays. We need him at his best..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury return: "...the moment he is ready, he will be thrown on the field.

"We haven't done that [rushed him] at all. The timescale he had has been respected..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury return: "...now, it's more about his feeling - when he actually demands, 'I really want to be part of it'.

"He's so willing that the moment he expresses that desire, it means he..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury return: "...feels fully ready.

"We are comfortable with where he is, state of the knee, where he is physically on the metrics that are important for him to be safe to come back..."

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📢 Arteta on Gabriel Jesus injury return: "...it's now about him feeling ready to step in, have challenges and have opponents around."

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