Mauricio Pochettino previews Chelsea vs Tottenham

Let’s get the team news, the latest news and the tomorrow’s big game Depend Depend. What do you want to know? Everything. All the players? Look at that. How’s Rhys James Tiago out for the rest of the season? There’s a number of players. OK, not no good news because we cannot recover any player from the last list. Only. We need to adapt two player more, Theo and and Isasi. They will be no available for tomorrow. Thiago obviously announcing he’s leaving Chelsea. It was a very emotional video. I just want to give the opportunity for you to to speak about him, what a brilliant signing he was for Chelsea and how much will the club miss in his influence in the dressing. Of course he’s an amazing guy. He’s an amazing professional. We are not. I’m not going to discover the the type of player you know playing nearly to 40 year old and seeing his, his amazing career. Of course, the player, the fans, the club is going to miss him and and of course but he’s happy. He’s so proud about his career here in in Chelsea and in different clubs also, and only only to wish the best because he deserves the best. He said that your speech at half time against Villa made a real impact and it could have been so different. It could have been three points. Do you still have that anger? Because I thought you handled it well against Man City, but that anger after the Aston Villa match? Yes, of course. Every single game is a challenge for us and now we have tomorrow a big challenge against Tottenham. That is a a great team like Tottenham. I think it’s it’s going to be good. It’s going to be a nice game to play. I think it’s a great opportunity for some kid that to to be on the on the bench and to have the possibility maybe to play. I think when this opportunity appears is about to has to be conscious and to say come on, step up and say the kids, we are here and we want to be there and we want to play for the first team on Chelsea. And I think it’s a great opportunity tomorrow and for sure it’s going to be a great game. Just on VAR still and Sweden rejected VAR and poster Cogloo said he might move there. Do you want to move there with him? Potentially. If sorry no VAR in Sweden and poster Cogloo said he might move there. Would you like to join him? No. I don’t know what he said. What he said that he’s he’s not a bit. He’s not happy with the VAR from Sunday’s match against Arsenal. Of course you’ve had this appointment. There’s no VAR in Sweden. He’s going to Sweden. He’s head as a joke. You want to join him on the plane. Well, maybe they’re not. Why not? Why not the Premier League? Big news this week on potential spending caps. Are you in favour of spending caps and how do you think it would potentially affect Chelsea and the Premier League? I wasn’t involved. I am not involved in the process. I don’t know what is the right answer. Well, I mean if it might affect your recruitment potentially in this, I don’t know. We’ll wait and see, then we’ll wait and see. Tottenham, of course. If you mentioned a huge Derby, but an emotional one for you. It’s a fixture you’ve known very well as well, so just tell us how special tomorrow night is going to be. I think what’s special when we play there because it was my first time after to to let the club and now he’s like, well, he’s a different, he’s a different thing. Of course it’s emotional because we are going to meet people that we work for a long period and yes but they can not High is my emotion for for for the club. You know. And I think he’s. Yes he’s going to be emotional because all when you face a former your former team and and when the history was good. You know that always you remember and and and of course. But I think he’s like I told before 90 minutes we want to win and for sure he’s going to come here to try to win also and it’s going to be a for sure I would win. Thank you. You’re welcome. Alex. Hi. Tomorrow will be your 400 game as a manager in England. Do you know it? No. I love it game. So how would you sum up your time here as a manager? Amazing. I think it’s a dream come true that’s true. That was. I think maybe I explained and I want to be repetitive. It always was for me to thinking to come here to England and to to be a coach here was impossible thinking, knowing machine. But after the decision of my wife and and my friend here, Jesus, they convinced me to join Southampton. And yes, I think it was one of the best decision in my in my life not to come here in England and enjoy this great, you know, football country and and of course I feel really comfortable. It’s like home. What is the most challenging time being? Would you say no, I think every single period was amazing challenge for us. I think to a right to South handle when no one knows us and try to convince the player and to translate our idea about football. When in England there was before no a right people, a right club and only I think was you know Brendan that was trying to settle a a different football. I think was an amazing challenge after and we met I think an unbelievable club, unbelievable chairman, unbelievable people, staff, you know, players and was an amazing journey in South Hunter and then Tottenham. That was amazing also because the challenge was to create a team that can, you know, compete and challenge the the big size. And after one year and one year and a half we were challenging. And for 5-6, nearly six year we were challenging the big teams and being in a final of the champion league, building a new stadium, new training ground, I seem to be part of this journey also was an amazing challenge and was an amazing time. And now arriving here to Chelsea in this also amazing club with an amazing history in a process, you know to try to to develop, you know, and being an exciting project that knowing that we need time. Maybe it’s the most challenging period now. Do you have 400 more games than you? Do you want 400 more? I I think we are still young. No, we are still young. Yes, I’ve seen. I think we are trying now to ensure every single day and try to provide our knowledge and our experience to to our club. And and of course always is that is our obsession or passion and it’s the adrenaline that we we we want to feel in our body every time that we go for a training or to compete on a game and that is I think the football need to push out of the of the field. I think it’s difficult to say I’m going to stop to be a coach or we are going to stop to to be you know doing what we love to do. We’ll see hope yes can achieve you know another 400 games here. No. I think he recovered. He recovered for the fans and for the club. The the hope, you know, they are playing a very good football and I seen it’s of of course always it’s difficult when you arrive to a new country and the challenge is massive. But he’s doing a fantastic job and every time that you watch Tottenham you’re showing how they play. Thanks. Good luck tomorrow. You’re welcome. Thank you. Alex, BBC, I’m very sorry against Arsenal. You said your players gave up during the match. So how pleased were you with the fight back at Aston Villa? Yes, so please. Because it’s about to learn. It’s a process that we need to learn. It’s a process that you need to leave the the experience and to learn from the experience. That is a challenge and this is a massive challenge. You know, to have this potential talented player, you know, competing in the most affair league in the world. Does that show how quickly young players can adapt to an experience? Yes, with up and downs. But I think yes, they they are learning. Of course that is a process and it’s a time that they are learning. We need to help and force them, you know, to realize in the in the area that they need to improve and they in the areas that they can be better different project, because we were talking before our project. When it’s 1-2 or three players young player that always is easier. When you have plenty of your player always is more is not more difficult but yes you need more time you know to spend and and you need more time to provide more time for them to run. Thank you maybe just talks more. Hi Ricky hello 400 games. One of them was the so-called battle of Stamford Bridge. Remember that when you were Spurs manager and you do is healthy and less than one of the title. Can you talk us through your emotions that night? That was a pretty wild game. Yes, I remember really well. Still my memory is good and that was a really tough game, was a difficult night. I seen we needed to win and Chelsea was, you know, an experienced team. I remember there was a Fabregas, Hazard, you know what a team. No, Chelsea was no younger if not with experience and they they were not doing a fantastic season. But at one game they can compete well because they know how to compete and they was tough for us. I think we start the game really well winning two nil and then they scored in the the last moment in the first half to one and then to two and of course was a battle because we wanted to win. We were very competitive and and sometimes we crossed the line you know and that’s it was was a really difficult moment but yes show the how competitive we were. You know we thought that in this moment that is why after a few few years after we were the final of the Champion League because we were building a very competitive team and you were quite animated on the touchline where you were getting right. No. I tried to say relax and calm. I tried to I I think so I I I lose my memory now. I don’t know. I don’t remember. I don’t remember so well. You got a bit older the last. It was also a pretty wild game earlier in the season when you went back for the first time. Yeah, it was was a game that, yes, was tough game because they start really well. And then always you need you know, to know only to play well, if not to have some laggy some luck. And I think too many scene were for us. And again again Tottenham in the first, in the first game that we play this season in in the Tottenham stadium, yes, but hope, hope that the the positive thing will be in our sight tomorrow And because for us it’s really important to three-point. Finally, you were asked about VAR. Earlier suggestions that maybe soon maybe next season, we might be able to hear. The referee might be able to give so that everyone in the stadium can hear what? Why he’s made a decision like we have in in cricket. Like rugby. Yes, rugby. Yes, support. Other than football. Rugby. Do you do you welcome that the referee may be able to tell us all why he’s. Yeah. We need to prove you know why not. We need to to try to improve in the way that we can assess the scene and to inform the funds. It’s true that the football is changing. The business is changing, everything is changing. And we cannot stop the evolution of the the food. I think it’s like you you you asked me before. I think we cannot stop the evolution of the technology. BAR is here and it’s difficult that a league like the Premier League is going back to the to the to the past. But I think that we can improve things. We can improve things. I think are very welcome. Thank you. Last question in the broadcast section Liam Mathletic, Chelsea are getting so many injuries and does something in the class approach need to change? I need to be honest. What they can say is always in all the new process and new structure, always you know things. We can do better. Of course we are not going to, not to. We all feel the responsibility, of course, that we can do better. And then in some circumstance that is too many circumstances that happened. That is why. And it’s difficult to explain with one word or with one sentences of course that we are working in trying to improve. I think we have an amazing staff medical staff perform an area coaching staff and I think we have all experience managing clubs and and being in this in this business when some circumstance arrive too many circumstance arrive sometime in some period can happen of course that we need to be now when on the end of the season to put all the information on the table and try to you know to to to be better next season. We need to improve in all the I don’t know I can say Communication dynamics strategies or everything that we need to put our knowledge to try to improve and coordinate better. Of course all the all the things that can we can improve but I think this is the quality is here is only that this like happens sometime with the team know that the team why not perform. Yes, we know why we we are assessing why. But the inconsistency of the new project, you know sometime can but this I don’t say that is that is too many things that maybe are all together today and that is why we are suffering so, so many issues.