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00:00Evening guys, we're maxed on either side, we'll take a show of hands, come to as many
00:06of you as we can.
00:07Somewhere to start, Simon?
00:08Pep, I presume when there's two minutes left you think you're going to win that game.
00:18What do the last two minutes mean in terms of you and your job and how you get out of
00:26this cycle?
00:27No, listen, in the past maybe I could presume that we could win two minutes left, but in
00:33the situation that there Anthony Taylor says go to the shower, I never thought about that.
00:40It's true that we are not fluid, so we were a team that always played with these composers
00:46that now we don't have, especially for the amount of games losing, and at the same time
00:56it's normal, but sometimes the spirit or the strength helps you to find, sometimes
01:04the game, in this time of games today, it was more OK, we were there, we were there,
01:08and we were there.
01:11But it's not about this situation, it happens many times, I don't have defence, so I'm the
01:17boss, I'm the manager, I have to find a solution and I don't find a solution.
01:21So this is a big club, and a big club when you lose 8-10, something wrong has happened,
01:27so I can say the schedule is tough, the injuries of the players, but no, 3-0 against Feyenoord,
01:3875 minutes, they will lose the game, do you think it's the injuries, the schedule?
01:41No, we have to win that game, today we have to win that game, because I would say, except
01:45the action from Bruno Fernandes, because Anthony Taylor has done, the gesture he has
01:52always done for 9 years for our team, it is false, he can see that, but except that, nothing
01:58will happen, even no play good, I know when the play is good, but the pressure, the tension,
02:05and in that position, we give away again, and we have to keep working, but I'm the boss,
02:12I'm the manager, and I'm not good enough, it's as simple as that, I have to find a way
02:18to talk to them, to train to them, the way you have to play, the way you have to press,
02:23the way you have to build up, and I'm not good enough, I'm not doing well, that is the
02:29truth.
02:30They say it's always the same problem, it's been fixed, and I would say, no, it's that
02:35player, it's fixed, no play, but it's not that, and Mateus, the incredible effort he
02:40has put in the left back, he has played really, really, really, really good, with or without,
02:45but you know, it's happened, it's football, and move forward.
02:50Hi Pep, back to your left, sorry to ask a blunt question, but you've been here a long
02:57time, does it ever cross your mind that you might be running out of energy, or magic?
03:05I didn't have the energy and magic before, I have an incredible energy, in the touchline
03:13I was there, but the magic, I was no magician, I was no magic when I won, and never you saw
03:18me here in the press conference, after one world we won, I said, I'm a magician, I'm
03:21a magic, I've done this, but always we were able, I put the plural, we were able to find
03:26a way, you know, to get back the bad moments, and support, and the way we played, and everything,
03:32me as a manager, I cannot say, because Roy is not here, the central defenders are not
03:36here, yeah of course, it's the main reason, but when you are at the end, with 73 minutes
03:42against Feyenoord, that we were already qualified for the next stage, and today, it's about
03:47that, it's something I'm missing, something, sorry?
03:50What about the energy?
03:51Ah the energy, listen, when you win games, the energy is higher, you know that, when
03:55you lose games, you're even down, but this is my job, my job is not just to win games
04:00or lose trophies, I'm incredibly well paid for that reasons, to handle that situations,
04:06to get into the press conference, to accept all the criticisms, that they list one month
04:11and a half, but I want to be honest, maybe in one year, or a year and a half, we were
04:16able to lose 8 games, in one or two seasons, I don't know the numbers, but maybe one season,
04:22one and a half, and now in one month, and 10 days, or 12 days before, we were top of
04:26the league, and the only team unbeaten in Europe, and after one month and 10 days, we
04:33lost 8 games to them, and this is a big club, and the club of course cannot accept it, so,
04:37I said the same, I'm still here sitting in the press conference, because we have done
04:43in the past, otherwise in the big clubs, don't sustain the manager that way, and I have to,
04:49and I promise you, I tried, I think all the managers around the world, when they are in
04:53big problems, they work harder, and think more, and talk more, what they have to do,
04:58to get them, guys, still we are so good, but, so I knew, I'll be honest, I knew that it
05:08will be a tough season, from the beginning, I said many times, even when we were winning,
05:13but I didn't expect it was so hard, like it was right now.
05:18No matter how good a team is, it becomes very difficult to win games, when
05:23so many individuals are making mistakes, and lapses, I know it was known as today,
05:28but in other games, it's been lots of other individual players.
05:31That's the point.
05:32What, have you been able to, for any reason, is it confidence, is it fatigue, is it,
05:38is it just that they've lost their edge, what's the...
05:41It's a football, it's an, like all in life, it's the emotion, it's how you feel, you know,
05:45how you're there, and in a difficult problems, or my problems, when you have there, it's happened,
05:51and now we are more anxious with the ball, we are more anxious without the ball.
05:56So the worst, the worst thing as a defender,
05:59on the position, like a striker in the boxes, when you are anxious,
06:02we don't have this composure and calm, and nothing wrong is going to happen,
06:06you have this calm and shake your decisions.
06:09Now, what do you give that?
06:12The momentum, the confidence, the many things, and our standards are high, and there,
06:17and we want equal, and oh, we are not able to reach it, we put pressure,
06:21me, myself, first, and the players do it, and all the mistakes we have done,
06:25it's because we solve it with, oh, it's the end of the world.
06:28And there are so many times, relax.
06:31If you are dribbling in the box, or in there, always you have tempo,
06:35you have time to take, you know that, and now, we are not doing this.
06:40There are two more guys, James and Simon, please.
06:43James?
06:44You have defended the players a lot, and for good reason,
06:46because of what they have achieved here,
06:47but given your relationship with them, given how long you have been with them,
06:51can you be ruthless enough, say, at the end of the season,
06:54to make the tough decisions that you might have to make,
06:56based on the way the season is going?
06:59The end of the season will be the end of the season.
07:02So, the end of the season will be the end of the season.
07:05Of course, this club is a big club already,
07:07and we cannot sustain it for a long, long time,
07:11the situation with the manager or with the players, that is obvious.
07:15So, we have to change something.
07:20I'm here, but we have to 8 to 10.
07:26So, I'm the responsible for everything.
07:29For me, it will be easy to say,
07:30no, we lost for this action, for that action, for that action,
07:34for that player, or for the situation for the club,
07:36do this, or the club do that.
07:38This is not like that.
07:40Football is a team, it's everything, the momentum and everything.
07:46I completely, completely convince what I'm saying,
07:51that I'm not good enough to find a way
07:55to that player feel the peace in their bodies and his mind,
07:59to play, it doesn't matter what happens,
08:02and I'm not good.
08:04I want it, desperately.
08:09With 8 to 10?
08:11With 8 defeats to 10?
08:13But I'm here to try it, and I will try again and again.
08:17That is the reality.
08:20What are you more concerned by, the fact that you're losing composure
08:24when you're in control of the game?
08:26No, the game was not in control of the game,
08:28we were not in control of the game,
08:29we were just trying to play the game.
08:32No, the game was not in control of the game.
08:35I know when we are in control of the game,
08:37I know when we play good.
08:39I know.
08:41But right now that, but in the moment there are a lot of games
08:44in this period, the many years we have played here,
08:47that we have not played good and we are able to get it.
08:49We are able to get it.
08:51And now, for the situation in some moments,
08:54that we had not the feeling that one mistake, one action,
08:58we're going to concede a goal.
09:00And now we are in that moment, and when the situation went bad,
09:04sometimes the situation is solved, we go post outside,
09:06now it's coming in.
09:07So, it's happened.
09:10But it's not the first time in this run
09:11that you've not only conceded one goal,
09:13but then gone on to lose the game by conceding multiple goals?
09:16No, I would say that this season, with the final lot,
09:19is when we start to go down and we come back.
09:22That is the only thing this season was really good, many times.
09:27And when you were there, our pass, our game,
09:30our, you know, go back and in,
09:32and go in the position more up front,
09:33you have a momentum that, okay, that is where it is.
09:35Okay, bring it, that is that position.
09:38But unfortunately, at the end, we lost it.
09:41And listen, I can say here, again,
09:43the arguments that the guys who are every day
09:46in the pre-conference have said,
09:47but it's an eight to 10.
09:50So, it's no defense.
09:52I can make a thousand million arguments.
09:54We have to find a way, like in the past happened.
09:56We found a way all the time to find the solutions,
09:59and now we are not.
10:00Thank you, guys.