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Live updates from all of today’s Premier League pre-match press conferences.
“Jack is okay. Jack will be fit and available to play (against Arsenal), yes.”
“Kiernan is doing well. But not available for the game (against Arsenal). He’ll be a big miss for us, but that’s what happens this time of year. Every club has injuries or suspensions.”
Asked if Everton have an idea when Dewsbury-Hall could return, Moyes said: “We have, but I’m not telling you.”
“It was a bad performance, no two ways about it. There were a couple of things about it, we lacked energy to produce again.
“It wasn’t a particularly good football game until our mistake.”
“I feel support, I have done the whole time. After the game, I haven’t changed my mind. This is not a quick fix. That’s not to stay we aren’t going to try and beat Liverpool and believe we have a good chance of doing that.
“First and foremost I am most critical of myself, we are a lot of people that need to perform well together.”
“They’re an excellent team, they’re the champions. They started very well. They signed fantastic players, Hugo Ekitike, what a season he’s having.
“Isak is a top striker, he will come good and Wirtz is fantastic but still adapting to the league.
“Szoboszlai is a beast, he will play tomorrow of course.”
“Sometimes strong words are not bad words. Difficult moments are not a bad thing for the kids. They feel entitlement. Let’s stay, let’s fight, let’s overcome. I have that feeling all the time. We are not performing the way we should be on the pitch but outside the pitch, I am not failing this club. The players forget what it means to play for Manchester United and that’s the feeling I have.
“The kids feel entitled and feel free to respond. My office is always open and no one comes to speak to me. I didn’t say anything wrong. I just spoke about how the lack of playing for Manchester United. You go and see different realities and go and see that football can be so different.”
“Everything can happen. I think they have a manager with a lot of experience. You can sense it is a very mature team that understands it doesn’t panic when losing or overwhelmed when winning.
“They are a very strong team. Will they fight until the end? I don’t know but they are capable.”
“It was not Kobbie who wore the T-shirt. He is going to play if we feel he is the right guy. That is not an issue. I am not going to do something to Kobbie because of someone in his family.”
“I answered that question two questions before. I am here. What’s going to happen, who knows? Even if I have 10-year contract or six months, football changes a lot. Now I am focusing on West Ham and then golf after a few days with my dad and that is all.”
“I always get asked this question, so sooner or later I will quit Manchester City. I have 18 months, so I’m so happy with the development of the team. That question is there every single season at some point. Whatever is going to happen will happen.
“They are not discussions. End of the subject. I will not be here forever. What is going to happen will happen. The club must be prepared.”
“We have results but a lot of things we have to do better. It helps for the fact that the mentality and commitment are incredible. We are not at the level required to win the title.”
“He is a guy who was playing as he played in the street but I want to push him. I won’t give too many compliments. He is so young and has the mentality to be better and better but a few things need to improve.”
“We have been speaking, not just now, but for the last month and a half, probably, straight after the last summer things that we were supposed to do, and we didn’t. And of course, looking to the African Cup [of Nations] that we knew was going to happen and of course, the injury of Rodrigo [Muniz] that created a completely different scenario for us, and we know what we need.
“It’s not about what the coach or the manager, it is not about Marco Silva as manager needs to improve or strengthen the squad. It is about what the football club needs to do.”
“We have ongoing talks, we always have a good exchange, and we talked about this position, so let’s see how we will plan in the winter period if we want to replace it and how we want to replace it.”
“That’s the disappointing thing, we don’t have a huge number of injuries, we just have them focused on one particular area that has stretched us in the last few weeks. I think the fixture congestion this season has been like no other.
“And the cup run is a great thing, but of course that adds to it. We haven’t just had a week to where we could regroup, but in some senses getting used to that as a football club is what we have to do in the long term and to be able to adapt and grow with that challenge.”
“He’s probably the closest of all the [injured] players. He’s doing well, he’s back on the grass, he’s training, diving, kicking. Whether he makes this game, I’m not sure.”
“Lewis could be available. He felt some fatigue in his hamstring after the Sunderland game. It wasn’t evident in the game, it was more a couple of days afterwards. He had a scan, and the scan didn’t reveal too much, so let’s see.”
“We probably won’t see him again until 2026. This is one he has done before. He will be out for a few weeks.
“It’s like any player, when you suffer an injury to the same area twice, it always adds a layer of complication to it. It is a minor injury but it will keep him out for a good few weeks.”
“That is a word I would use, gratitude and admiration. I think he taught me a lot. The integrity that the game requires at any cost. He is a remarkable man. I think the way he manages the club, the people, his players is outstanding.
“I am very grateful for everything he did for me, for Everton as well. In general for English football as well because he has been an example of how to behave in good and difficult moments. That is normally when you see what people are and I think David is something extraordinary.”
“He is an option and he has give us every reason as well to consider him in a really serious way. You look at the goals he has scored.”
“I came to a club that was in a difficult stage of history. You have to take this job day by day. I do the same as day one as today. Makes sure people are on board with you and what you do and that’s it. At the end in my job it’s about winning football matches, that’s it.”
“For centre backs, that’s not an uncommon thing to be at the crime scene if you concede goals. He’s been unlucky a couple of times. We play a low-scoring game.
“It has an immediate impact on the result. Recently, he’s not been at he crime scene and that is how we prefer to see him.We are less vulnerable than we were at other stages of the season.”
“We are getting closer to the team I want us to be. That has gone with ups and downs. For me, that makes complete sense because of the changes we made in the summer and we made them on purpose because we thought we needed them.
“You have to adapt, so it takes time. We have been very unlucky with refereeing decisions. Even on Saturday, we missed out on a red card, but it didn’t hurt us.”
Mikel Arteta also says he is optimistic of having Kai Havertz back available soon, having been out since August with a knee injury.
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Arteta also says Gabriel is progressing well in his recovery and is hopeful of having him back soon, along with Kai Havertz.

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