Pre-match press conferences LIVE – Arteta, Slot, Guardiola, Glasner and MORE facing the media

Watch Oliver Glasner and Marc Guehi speak ahead of the FA Cup final here:

Watch Man City boss Pep Guardiola’s press conference ahead of the FA Cup final here:

Here’s Arne Slot on the boos for Trent, links to Jeremie Frimpong and more…

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“Now is not the time to talk about that, before the final of the FA Cup. I have 24 exceptional players, I’m not going to talk about the final.”

“I’m thinking only about tomorrow’s game. I’ll select a team as the best to beat them.”

“He’s much better. I’m waiting on the doctors, when they tell me he’s ready, he’ll start. We don’t want to take a risk and make setbacks.”

“I was already happy that nobody asked about it, I thought we could leave this behind.

“Last week people talked about it to me, then of course we had the reaction from our fans in the stadium which was different, positive and negative, then all the pundits talked about it and the whole country talked about it.

“Now I think it’s time to draw a line under that. Let’s focus on the fact that we’ve won the league and to enjoy the upcoming week with that feeling and not talk and be distracted that much about Trent’s situation.”

“Of course we want it. We want to lift the trophy. It’s important after a disappointing season. If we perform well we’re going to compete. To win the trophy you have to be there and to be there you have to win games. We’ve done it for many years.”

“We didn’t start slow [conceding two early on]. We played good even in the beginning. We defended not well but before conceding the second we were good.”

“It was a good performance against them.”

“Players with quality, when you stretch they have quality. Mateta is strong, and I would say their quality is obvious. The pace from Sarr, he has incredible pace. Same from Munoz and Wharton is a very good holding midfielder. A very structured defence.”

“It’s a final. We can not expect differently.”

“It’s a fantastic team. More than a year with Oliver working with the same players. It’s a final of the FA Cup, an honour and a privilege. We travel to London to win the title.”

No changes, it’s the same as last week.

“To be in the squad even becomes difficult if Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota are there as well.

“Is he good enough to play for us? Yes he is. But apparently I’ve always felt Gakpo, Diaz and Salah have deserved the confidence I had in them and I hardly ever changes that set-up between the three of them.”

“Have they slipped off, they are in another final, so I don’t know? We all know how good Man City are and their quality. Like the manager said, we will focus on ourselves, on doing the best we can for the fans.”

“In terms of the quality, he deserves more playing time.

“He has the quality to play for us but unfortunately for him, he’s in competition with Mo Salah on the right wing, and I think he could also play on the left but there’s Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.

“I don’t think I’m wrong if I say all three of them have had great, great, great seasons.

“For him, he started one, two or maybe three nil down because when he came in by a long way he was not as fit as those players were so that doesn’t help in the beginning.

“Before he was as fit as the rest but the others did so well there was not a reason to change.”

“You ask any manager at the end of the season, can you promise we will be in the UCL next season? I don’t know who would say yes.”

“The sustainability, the stability to be in the best possible place as a squad, is key.”

“If we feel we can strengthen the squad we do so but it’s difficult to strengthen the squad because there’s a reason why we won the league. We have so many great players.

“It’s an ongoing process, that we’re talking about.

“I think the club has shown so many times in the past that they will make the right decisions and we made the right decision last season as well not to bring in a player at all, except for Federico Chiesa, and that worked out quite well.”

Oliver Glasner: “It feels like a normal game. Our preparations have been more or less the same as for a Premier League game, like they were for the semi-final and quarter-final.

“We focused on what we want to do tomorrow, we analysed Manchester City, but 90% we talked about us.

“We can influence what we want to do. The focus was on our game, and maybe having one or two small adjustments, because the players did very well in the last couple of weeks.

“We have a lot of confidence and are looking forward to the final.”

Arne Slot on whether the last two games could influence his decisions on who will leave: “Our opinion has been made up over 10-11 months.

“I think we know quite well the quality of our players.

“The game against Brighton or Palace is not to change our mind or make up our mind in what we think about next season.”

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has been quoted on the club website as saying: “It’s positive news, everyone is fit. Adam [Wharton] trained the whole week and is available, and all the others are fit.

“There are some tough decisions to take – but good decisions to take.”

“The margins to win or not win the Premier League is incredible.”

“I think sometimes from the plan that we had and actually what we were able to execute, we’ve never been able to replicate it exactly. This is football, it happens, I think, to every football club.”

“That’s why we plan certain ways and, okay, we cannot do it, we’ll do something else. I think the aim is clear and then you have to just do it slowly, thing by thing and start to achieve it.”

“A big part of that as well is keeping and making sure that the players that are here are happy, they feel valued, and they are willing to continue with us. That’s very, very important.”

Arteta praised Saliba’s professionalism and character, and said there is still much more to come from the “amazing centre-back.”

Slot is asked whether he has spoken to Trent Alexander-Arnold about being booed by the Liverpool fans and if he will play on Monday.

“I haven’t spoken to him yet, today is the first day we came back together.

“It’s quite early to say what the team will look like and what the squad will look like for Monday.”