“We’re here to compete!” 💪 | Marco Rose’s FIRST Premier League press conference | vs Manchester City

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Marco Rose has arrived in the Premier League with an optimistic outlook, emphasizing that his squad is well-prepared and united following a successful pre-season campaign. Although he acknowledges some injuries, Rose remains satisfied with the team's composition, noting that they have retained key players like Alex Scott while signing new additions such as Alvareo Rodriguez, Antonio Silva, and Juan Lu Sanchez early in the window. He expressed no rush to make further moves, stating that the current group is in a good spot and ready for the challenges ahead. The club's promotion to the Europa League adds a significant layer of complexity, but Rose is confident that with hard work and proper management of player workload, his team can successfully balance domestic league demands with European competition. Rose defines success not by specific table positions or numerical targets, but by maintaining the team's identity through front-footed, aggressive play against every opponent. He highlights the daunting nature of their opening match against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, acknowledging Bournemouth's historical struggles there while expressing humility and determination to seize opportunities. When asked about adapting his approach for the Premier League compared to other leagues, Rose insists that his core philosophy of playing forward and being brave will remain unchanged, though he admits minor tactical adjustments may be necessary for specific high-level fixtures like those against top rivals. The transition from Andoni Iraola is framed as a natural evolution rather than a correction of failures, with Rose noting that the club specifically sought a manager who shares Iraola's front-footed approach to maintain continuity. He respects Iraola's work and views his own role alongside Enzo Maresca at Manchester City as equally challenging, dismissing any notion that one task is harder than the other. Rose praises the decision by the club not to sell key players during the summer transfer window, viewing it as a smart move that ensures competitiveness for both domestic league success and European qualification. Despite the formidable challenge posed by Pep Guardiola's former squad under Maresca, Rose refuses to speculate on whether City will struggle without their previous manager, instead focusing entirely on his own team's ability to compete. He points out that Manchester City remains a top club with a world-class squad featuring stars like Phil Foden and Erling Haaland, regardless of who is in charge. Ultimately, Rose concludes that while the pre-season results can be unpredictable and exciting, the true test begins at the weekend when his team must face these elite opponents directly to prove their worth on the pitch.

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Marco, welcome to the Premier League. How's everything been shaping up for you and the team ahead of the new campaign? >> Um, so far so good, I would say. Um, we had a a really good preseason. I settled in very well. Everyone supported me and um the new coaching staff. Um, everyone put it um a lot of effort in in the preparation and and all the things around. So uh we feel well prepared for for the upcoming season for the upcoming game in in in Manchester. Of course we suffered um some injuries um but it is what it is. Um now we are looking forward to start. >> Some sources have said that the squad's 95% complete. You've already signed Alvareo Rodriguez, Antonio Silva, and Juan Lu Sanchez. Are you still hoping to be active in the rest of the transfer window? >> We are not in a rush. So we are really happy with with our squad. We we kept the group together. We we signed um quite early um the players. You mentioned it. So everyone everything is in a in a good spot and um yeah now we are waiting that the transfer window is closing. >> The club are in the Europa League for the first time. It's such an exciting new chapter, but it obviously brings a lot more of a loan next season. How are you going to balance the demands of Europe and the Premier League? Yeah, it's getting a a big big challenge. Um first of all, we um had a preparation to get prepared for for this big uh challenge. Um so we trained hard. We trained uh a lot and um now as you said we wait for the draw and then we going to see how we play, who we play and where we play. Um the most important thing stays um the the daily business, the Premier League, um the cups and of course we are looking forward to play play in Europe to show our club to representate our club uh in Europe and um yeah finding the right balance in uh um yeah giving the players the right load um is um is a big job but I'm quite sure that we handle it together um with the staff. You've spoken about your relationship with Jurgen Clark. Have you been in touch with him about some advice about the Premier League? >> No, I was not. >> And look, you admitted it would be a tough job to follow what Anthony did here. So, what does a successful season look like for you in the Premier League? >> You are not the first one who asked me this question. Um, I think um we should not talk about numbers or or things like this. We we should talk about the way we want to play. um we want to um keep and show our identity. We want to play front footed. We want to compete with with every opponent um we get and we start with a with a really tough away game in in Etiad. So um uh it's the the first big challenge and of course we in this business everyone knows that we we need points um to feel comfortable and um to get in the right place. Um but at the end I don't want to talk about um yeah a final place in the table or something um like this. We want to win games. We want to play well. If we do it, if we play well, we got positive results and um then the things are going in the right direction. >> You just touched on your opening Premier League fixture against Manchester City. Bournemouth have never won away at the Yeti had. So is that challenge a daunting one or is it exciting for you? It's uh it's exciting for for sure and um if we never won there so maybe it gets time to to win there. So um I I think we are uh humble enough to know how difficult it is to play there to to play that quality of uh of players. Um but on the other side we always that's what I said we always look for our chances. we we see our chances and even on on Sunday we try to to win the game. >> And Enen Enzo Moresco is also taking charge of his club for the first time. What are you expecting from him? >> The things I saw so so far with with Chelsea or um now with with City there um is a clear idea, clear philosophy. You know what you get, you know what they want to play. Um uh you see the processes uh they have the approach they have it's quite intense against the ball um high pressing and with the ball you know what quality you face and um even there um you you you see an clear idea um in established um play. So yeah it's getting again a tough challenge but um we are quite positive. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Hi. Hi, good to see you. Um, first of all, just when you talk about what how City might play in terms of the way you play, um, your teams have always scored a lot of goals. You've scored a lot of goals in pre-season. Um, but are there any things that you need to adapt in your approach coming into the Premier League from how you've played in other leagues? >> I don't think so. If your approach is um um playing forward um being frontfooted um then maybe you need some adaptions about the the uh physical approaches or things like this. But the the the approach in general stays. Um that's for sure and that's what we need at the weekend as well. We will not change our approach because we face a a top uh opponent. Um uh so we want to play forward >> as a new manager coming in. Very often when a new manager comes in, they come in because the previous manager maybe hasn't been getting great results. You're following a manager that was very popular, had great results for Bournemouth. How do you strike the balance between continuing what was good before and making your own mark and putting your own stamp on the team and getting across your ideas? >> Yeah, it was his decision to to go and the club needed a new coach. So, someone has to do the job. That's for sure. If he's not here anymore, and there need to be another one, and that's me. And and I love to be here. It was a conscious decision um because of the talks and um the the observing of the team that I that I did. Um, and I'm here because the club thought that it's a good idea to bring a coach who has a similar approach to the to the former um coach and um that's what we want to maintain the front-footed um approach um playing forward being brave in in in every game. And of course if we speak again about the weekend because we play Manchester City um you need to adapt some uh things. So it means you need to find the right moments to be brave. Um you need the right moments to be front-footed if you get this moments. You have to use them and um yeah therefore we always talking about the match plan um the week before um and now we are waiting for the game on Sunday. Um you touched before on on um how Moresca might play. He's taking over for the first time. First Premier League game. You're you're doing the same. Who's got the tougher task? You following Andon here or Moresca following Pep up at Manchester City? >> I think it's the same for him. Pep said he needs a break and um and so was there to to do the job. So um to be honest I don't care because I love to be here and I respect and really admire the work of of Andoni and I'm quite sure that Enso admire the work of of Pep like like like everyone but now the clubs has new coaches everyone um tried to uh do his best um with with the club and um yeah that's why we are working for Manchester Manchester City and me for AFC Bombos. >> And you talked before about you're happy with the way the squad is at the moment. Just touching on not just the new signings, but the players that you kept the likes of Alex Scott, there was talk about him across the the summer. How important was it to you personally that that the club held on to players such as that? Key key players and they're going to play an integral part in your squad this season. I think it's not just important for me, it's important for the club as well because um again we achieved a big big um um thing with be playing in Europe next season and therefore you need to be competitive. Therefore you need to have a competitive team and the club decided to to not sell anyone and I think it's a smart decision. This was part of the talks when I when I when I came here and everything um came like we uh we we spoke about and um uh as I said we signed three players we didn't sell so um the squad is in a in a really good spot. >> If you look across the Premier League a lot of clubs with with managers just starting out a lot of signings have been made across the Premier League. Is it's hard to predict how things are going? Is it is it exciting going into a season where maybe aside from Arsenal Arsenal who are the reigning champions and are quite settled everyone else is almost starting a fresh and so no one quite knows exactly where everyone is. How how exciting is that from a managerial point of view? >> It's always exciting every every season you can play at top preseason and then you lose your first game or you lose every preseason games and then you win the first five games. So preseason is preseason and of course if you had a world cup or European championship before some players came late come late um late signings especially in the Premier League mostly the market starts to run um sometimes really really late so um especially at the beginning it's uh it's very exciting but at the end um we have to play every opponent um we start Manchester City and um It's a It's a tough challenge. >> Just [snorts] finally on Manchester City, are they still as much of still as strong as ever with it with Moresca in charge taking over from Pep or do you think that's obviously going to be losing someone who's been as successful as Pep is going to be something that they've really got to struggle perhaps to to overcome? >> I'm quite sure that it's still a top top club and they have a a top coach with the with the top squad. Um, if you watch the preseason games before, I watched three of them, then you wouldn't expect um the result of of the Arsenal game. Arsenal did really well in in everything, out of possession, in possession. They scored after 29 seconds. So, the games runs like sometimes like um they run and but Manchester City had some really really good preseason games. um really front-footed um with high intense with a high intense approach um and with the ball we know the quality about of the players um in the in the back four we know the quality of the wingers we know the quality um of Phil Foden of Erling Harland of Kovachic so um it's still a top team with the top coach but um uh I'm not here to praise um Manchester City I'm here to uh compete with them at the weekend.