“No Djed is out, he’s not ready for the game tomorrow. No [news about Spence or Kulusevski]. Kevin (Danso) is back, last game already. Yeah, so he’s back. No other news. There is no other news.
“We hope [Djed] will be [available] for the Champions League [vs. Atletico Madrid].”
“We need to choose the right players of course. There are a lot of things to improve, you work day by day, you see that the players want to come, that’s the thing that makes me positive, makes me believe that we will do it.
“That’s the key in the end, waiting for other players to come back to give something to the team. Like Pedro [Porro], last game he came out and immediately you see that he gives something to the team-mates, so Kevin [Danso] is coming back, we’re expecting Cuti [Romero], [Destiny] Udogie who will come back, Djed [Spence] will come back, so it’s important to have all pieces together.
“All the teams in the Premier League struggle without seven, eight, 10 players, so it’s not that the other teams, when they have players to complete, it’s one team where they don’t have so it is how it is. So we’re waiting for the players to come back to give the energy, to give the quality, until now, until then we work to do things better.”
“To not accept defeat as something normal, first reason and last reason, that’s why the reason when you play with, it’s about mentality, when you play with your friend you can have mentality. Okay we go to play tennis and then we lose, okay it’s the same for me or you can be different, you know.
“So for sure in this moment we need to recognize this but also to have belief that we have quality to do it. So my point is to give both things to the team, you know, and that’s how it works, this job, this sport. So I’m trying to touch them in all kind of things I can touch, you know, and as I said I saw the good will from the side to change things, we need something, we need small details, we need something to change of course, but I saw small progress, so tomorrow we need to keep going in the direction that I believe we will take and make one good performance as a team.”