27/09/2024
Enzo Maresca:
"Romeo is available for tomorrow. The only one not available is Reece. I will see. We have one more session, then we decide [what role Romeo will play]."
"It's a good thing for me to have some doubts [over selection]. That means they are doing well, they get the chance when we give it to them. It's something important and to continue to do. We create the right culture in terms of team to compete."
"Pedro [Neto] did well the other day, Misha [Mudryk] did well. All of them. Benoit [Badiashile] did well, Axel [Disasi], Renato [Veiga] and Cesare [Casadei] played a fantastic game the other day."
On Ben Chilwell:
"For sure, why not [get minutes in the Premier League]? I said many times, I will say again, in the moment Chilly is with us, if we need we will give him chances and minutes."
"We all make mistakes. I had to make a decision; sometimes they are good and sometimes not. There is not any bad intention from me. It was just to try and think of the best thing for the club."
"The focus is just the game. That's the most important. If we are able to win [awards like Manager of the Month], it's important to continue the momentum."
"It's always important to win games. It gives us energy, confidence and trust. Even when you don't win, you play some good games, so you have to be focused on that. It sometimes happens the other side, you win games you don't deserve [to]."
"[It is] not easy. As we said, we are already two or three weeks where there is no noise around the team. This is important. It's what I expected in terms of hard work but also exciting."
"Since day one, they have been open-minded and trying to understand what we want from them. There is no limit in terms of 'okay, we need three months to learn everything'. We will continue to learn everyday. It's a work in progress everyday to improve."
"Be honest with all of them [about selection]. We cannot play with seven, eight attacking players. It's important that they [like Jackson and Nkunku] compete and are ready when we give them minutes. I've told them since day one that we cannot play with seven or eight attacking players, otherwise there is no defensive balance."
"It's important because we don't concede [clean sheets]. That means we have more chances to win. It's important the feeling. We conceded two goals against City, but we didn't concede many chances. Wolves we conceded two goals, but second half not many shots..."
"Defensively, we need to improve many, many things. But we are heading in the right direction. We will concede goals, but it's important we improve the concept."
On Marc Cucurella:
"Marc is very important. Marc has something you sometimes struggle to find in other players. He is making the players around him [better]. Marc is always talking and demanding. If you have five, six or seven players like Marc in a team, it is very important."
"At the end, more or less, the pitches are the same. The pitch looks big when we are in the right position. When we don't move a lot, we make the pitch small. It depends more on how we behave, than the [actual] size of the pitch."
On Tosin Adarabioyo:
"Very impressed with him. The way he is behaving in and outside of the pitch. A leader. We are delighted with him."
On Moises Caicedo:
"He is a top player, he is very good. As with all the top players, he can improve things. The way he is playing in this moment is fantastic. The price [tag] is not Moi's problem, it's the market that sometimes decides the price."