[Albion] De Zerbi interview on Bobo TV: "no team can change my mind"

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TL;DR - he's not going anywhere any time soon.

“I love Italy, our football, because I’m Italian, I’m fine there [in England] now, never had a doubt about coming to Brighton. I get along very well with everyone at Brighton, there is no team that can change my mind, I have made a commitment. I will hopefully return to Italy, I don’t know when, if I have the chance. But I tell you that I like being outside, the emotions I’m experiencing in England, the stadiums, then I improve my language, I know their football. You become master of the league when you exceed 100 matches.”

Poached by Chelsea on Friday..

What a charmingly low-budget production

Sing him up!! (despite my poor auto translate!)

Well I’m shocked to see him wearing black it’s really not like him

RDZ also talks about Dahoud (Dortmund) and Jesper Lindstrom (Eintracht) in very positive terms.

I like the way he gesticulates more when he speaks Italian.

Justice said:

Well I’m shocked to see him wearing black it’s really not like him

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I'm going to start calling him the Milk Tray man.

"And all because the lady loves...."

100 matches, so that is 2 seasons and a half then?

Husty said:

What a charmingly low-budget production

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If the hosts weren't complete idiots mocked by everyone and their mother then yeah, it'd be a nice show They like RDZ and are friendly though

Bozza said:

You might want to turn on auto-translation of subtitles.

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You got the gist of it, but I'll try and translate word for word for you as soon as I have time, since YouTube automatic subtitles are pretty terrible

deletebeepbeepbeep said:

100 matches, so that is 2 seasons and a half then?

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Did he just complete 39 games?
Next season he could hit 90 with Europa and decent cup runs.

When i didt think i could love the bloke anymore

GallodiMare said:

RDZ also talks about Dahoud (Dortmund) and Jesper Lindstrom (Eintracht) in very positive terms.

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That's a random one. Did they bring him up or did he?


If he brought it up then I guess he may be spilling something he shouldn't have...

I saw this quote today from Pep which I thought was interesting. I could imagine RDZ saying the exact same thing. He's clearly been influenced, nay INSPIRED by Guardiola
(or maybe it's the other way round)

-Full Translation [things between square brackets are my own additions]-

Q: I won't ask you who went after you nor who didn't, which would be the quicker question (if I ask you "Who didn't go after you?" it'd only take 2 seconds for you to answer), but I don't care about that-

RDZ: You mean now [during these last few days/months], or... ?

Q: Yeah yeah I meant right now, but as I said I don't care about that, especially because I do already know who went after you and who didn't. What I'm interested in, rather, is knowing your thoughts about Italian football now, after you've made an international tour and you've landed in the footballing equivalent of the NBA, and you've been recognised as- Oh by the way, congrats, we give you our congratulations even if you don't care about them, you've been recognized [by The Athletic] as manager of the year, so congrats. Sorry eh, but we have to congratulate you, en passant (see?), and so we do.

RDZ: You know, The Athletic is one of the most important football papers, no? And you know what I told them, when they asked me about that [being their pick for manager of the year]? I told them, "I think you've made a mistake." [laughs] Come on, with Klopp and Guardiola right there in the league!

Q: Yeah, Jokic [in the NBA] said "It's just a stat." He cares f*** all about these things, haha. Ok, so congrats, but anyway, you're in Premier League, many would want you back in Italy; we even debated about it on here one night, he [points at Cassano] wants you in Italy, we two say "Stay there! [in the PL]". But let's say that these are nice problems to have, because you've made your own path. You explained that for you it was first of all a journey on the personal, human side of things; you got to have only 8 months there [in Ukraine], then your game was interrupted, as well as your team there, then you've had 8 months here [at Brighton]... It's nice that you have this sense of belonging to teams. But there's also many Italian fans who are wondering - for example tonight [in the live chat] we have 20.000 viewers online and many are asking "Come to Milan/come to Juve/come to Inter etc.", and you know this. What are your thoughts, faced with this? Your thoughts and your feelings.

RDZ: Look, let's clear away all doubts. I love Italy, I love our football because I'm Italian. [But] eh... I'm good over there now. I've never thought about coming back to Italy this year. When they renewed the contract to the first player I asked the club to renew, and the player did renew his contract, and seeing the thing started from me, because I said "hey look, you have to stay here"-

Q: Lallana.

RDZ: Lallana, then immediately Groß. And when you make a commitment to them, either something big happens - like you have a fight with the club, and on the contrary I'm getting on extremely well with everyone there, truly - or you stay there; there's no team that can change my mind anymore. Because I made a commitm- for example, even with Dahoud; I wanted Dahoud two years ago already, when I was at Sassuolo. And Dahoud now tells me "Coach, I can come there, but I remember what happened with Tuchel, who wanted me here at Dortmund and then when I signed he went away. And what can I even do in a situation like that?" And I convince him to come - of course what convinces him is also the money, and all those other things, let's not kid ourselves here - but when I tell him "No, don't worry because I'll stay here", and he does come here, then it's not an offer from a high-ranked team or a prestigious team what can make me leave the club, no? What can make me leave is if I fight with the owner, if they don't follow me, if I slam the door on my way out. But yeah, if I make a commitment to a player, I'd then feel very bad breaking my word, breaking my promise to him. I will come back to Italy in the future, I hope, if I'll have the chance - I don't know when. But I also must tell you that I like being abroad, eh. Football-wise, I like it. The emotions I'm experiencing in England, going to their stadiums, all the different things- and then I can also improve my English, I can improve my knowledge of their football; right now if you ask me about Spezia I know the players of Spezia, but for example I don't know all the players of Southampton. Because at the end of the day either you train your team or you study your opponents, you don't have the time to do everything. And so I'd like to [get to that level of knowledge of English football]. In my opinion, you become proficient in your knowledge of a league when you're over the 100-matches mark.




[They then asked him about his external point of view on the situation at Milan with Maldini getting sacked from the technical director position at the club, and the young players that haven't done well there. And they also asked him what he thinks about Raspadori's potential, since he was his player at Sassuolo. In his answer about Raspadori, he mentioned Eintracht's Jesper Lindstrom as a model #10.]

Ali_rrr said:

That's a random one. Did they bring him up or did he?


If he brought it up then I guess he may be spilling something he shouldn't have...

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He brought it up.
RDZ: "I already wanted Dahoud at Sassuolo two years ago. Dahoud tells me: 'Coach, I'm coming (to BHA?) but the same happened with Tuchel who wanted me with him at Dortmund and I went, but he's gone away (to Chelsea)'.

"But when I tell you: 'don't worry, because I'll stay here (at BHA) and then you come... (no problem)'.

"It's not the prestigious team that can make me leave. I can leave if I argue with the owner, if they don't follow me, if I leave slamming the door. But if I make a commitment with a player, then it bothers me not keep my word..."

Not sure how reliable the link below is:


Edit: Didn't see Sepulveda post above

Bold Seagull said:

Did he just complete 39 games?
Next season he could hit 90 with Europa and decent cup runs.

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You can't master a league by playing in a different competition.

Sepulveda said:

What can make me leave is if I fight with the owner, if they don't follow me, if I slam the door on my way out.

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Let's hope that doesn't happen for a while...

(Thanks for the translation, by the way, @Sepulveda – a million times better than YouTube's efforts!)

sully said:

You can't master a league by playing in a different competition.

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Good point.

He'll need to stay until he's seen us through 100 champions league games too.

deletebeepbeepbeep said:

100 matches, so that is 2 seasons and a half then?

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Have you allowed for getting to 3 cup finals next year