 Yn amlwg yw'r gweithio, mae'n gweithio am y dyfodol yn cyffredinol y tair e-right honno ar gyfer y bachol am gyflawni'r gyffredinol. Gallwn oes y mynd i'n dwylo'r ddau'r hyn mae'n ddechrau? A'r gweithio, dyna fyddwn yn ddifrif, ond e'n gwneud o'r gweithio i'w clwb hwnna o'r ysgol. Ie, we wish him well. He did really well for us. It was a big part of the good start of the season we've had, but we'll make sure that we'll get other players in that comp will say for his loss. How close were you to netting him down as a permanent? Yeah, within the last few days it's only really accelerated in the wrong direction unfortunately for us in the last few days. I thought it was very close, but in the end it wasn't a big because it was in the interest of the other club that made it difficult for us to get him over the line. It is what it is. We wish him well. He's done well for us. He's a nice lad. He's worked really hard. Up to coming to us, he's had some indifferent loan. Spells with other clubs never really made the impact that certainly has done at our place, so clearly we helped him to make this move that he's going to make, so we take a little bit of credit for that, but I wish him well. I suppose it's always the unfortunate risk, isn't it, of loan players and having them for a season? Yeah, yeah, but you've got to take the option because it's just, you bring in good quality into your club club. The players, sorry that if they're on the open market you won't be able to bring to your club if you had to buy them directly, so the loan system helps in that regard. You can bring good players to your club. Place that financially, if they were on the open market, I would be rich, so you can bring good players in. And we'll still endeavour to do that. There's always good options out there, so Tyreex moved on, obviously, but we feel we can compensate and bring good talent in again. So on that front then in terms of actively looking at possible replacement for Tyreex in the squad then there have been reports today in the last hour or two that you're close to if not have already signed Tyree Nevers from West Ham on loan. Is there any truth in that? We're making strides to bring good players in. We think we're close to bringing in maybe one or two. Obviously we've not confirmed those yet, but we're confident in the next 24 hours we should progress to that end, so we'll keep our fingers crossed we're not going to count chickens yet, but that's our intention. Has always been a contingency plan in place in terms of possible targets if a recall would happen in the case of Tyreex? You have to pre-empt certain circumstances. There was the situation that Tyreex could take the option and leave us, so we have to protect ourselves, we have to make sure that positions in the team keep position in the team are filled with the right talent. And if we have to go into the loan market or if we're in the position to maybe bring somebody and offer a contract to someone, we'll do that, but you have to make plans. It would be foolish and not correct, not to. I mean, that's part of this job that you have to try and pre-empt almost every eventuality if you can. It's not always an easy process, but once you can see in the horizon or on the horizon then you can react to. Obviously, as I said earlier, this is only really accelerated the last couple of days, so we're likely to come into conversation as I've said, so that shows we're ahead of the game in terms of planning. In terms of your budget size for this window and the players that you have in the squad and prospective players maybe, are you in a position to accommodate for all those players, or is it inevitable that some are going to have to leave this window to fit within the budget size? Yeah, we're not going out there and spending money that we haven't got, so we'll move the squad around. Some guys will leave, Tyriac obviously frees up a little bit of capital that we can use, so that's what we'll do. There may be other ends, there will be other ends, there will be other outs as well, so it's just about managing the squad, the numbers and the cost if we do try and improve. I've got a player like, say for example, Jay Young who's had limited game time and opportunities. Is it more likely that he is one that would leave and would that be alone, would that be a permanent? There's a lot of interest as you'd imagine, clubs see good players and we have got good players, they're not quite getting near to the first eleven or the matchday squad and they will inquire and we've had inquiries for a lot of players, Jake's one of those. So we have to look at every eventuality and every circumstance and judge them on their merits and we'll do what we feel is best for Bradford obviously and we'll see what happens. It's a case of just making the right judgement calls on the make-up of the squad at the end of this window. As I've said to you before, the idea is to be stronger at the end than you were at the beginning, so that's what we'll endeavour to do. Albeit it's still very early on in this January window, but your first January window in league too. Are you finding it and how does it compare? Well it certainly does, as you say. Loans going back to parent clubs is probably a new thing for me, so I'll have to deal with that, but it's very similar in terms of obviously the work you have to do and obviously the recruitment apartment with Stephen is doing great work making sure that if we do lose players then we've got two or three of that. A potential replacements they've presented to me and then make decisions based on what I see and that will continue. It's worked for us up to this point. As I said, taking Tyreek as an example, his previous loans haven't been that impressive, but we just looked at his qualities as a player and we did obviously our due diligence in terms of him as a kid and we felt we could improve him and that's what we did. Anybody who comes here, we've got a lot to offer. I've said this before, the platform that we have from and the demands that this club plays is on players. It's good for young players. If they can embrace it and thrive in the environment that we have then it proves to their parent clubs and clubs that possibly could be interested in them that they can deal with football at a higher level. On the one hand it's a negative because there's a potential to lose players you've been working day and day out with but the potential is there to bring other good players in because you trust it to improve them so we'll work to make sure that we keep that reputation. Tyreek's time at the football club, the prime example of why one shouldn't always look at their previous statistics for the ones that have been at other clubs and actually your due diligence and what you see in a player is why you bring them in. I think we trust our eye in terms of knowing a good player when we see them. Obviously it's what you need at that time and what fits correctly for one team won't be the same for another team so if you pick the wrong club to go to then that can compromise you as a player because it's the wrong club at the wrong time. But if you get the right talent in and your right club and you can offer them obviously that development path that we undoubtedly can in terms of exposing them to the demands and expectations of a big club then that's going to help them so I think parent clubs recognise that and certainly clubs at a higher level and I think will benefit from that in terms of getting more time. The tactical change that you've made of late, how are the game influences that when you're looking at prospective players in this window? Not so much, the fundamentals that we do don't change in terms of I expect us to be comfortable on the ball, I expect good movement, I want to be dynamic at the top end of the pitch so those are fundamentals they don't change irrespective of which way we go or which formation we choose to go with so it's more about getting players that are comfortable with the football and can deal with it and make good decisions on the football field. That's my point of view, can they make the right decision on when to release a ball, when to dribble the football, take someone all in key areas or pass at the right time. Those are the things that sometimes set you apart from a player who maybe isn't quite at your level and you've just got to make good decisions and that's what we try to look for in players. It's almost the talented but decision making is the key one for me. You spoke about Tyring before he left, the qualities that he has, you saw a bit of a centre forward in his movement in the Harrogate game now that he's not with you on the presumption that you stick with this formation that you have been using. Is there an eligible player that can come in and fill that role that Tyring is behind? Oh yeah, I think so. I think I certainly have a research that's got the talent to play that role because I can say he's played down the middle and scored goals in the past in his career. So as if Tyring leaving has left us totally exposed, we've got good players that can come in even without the ones we want to try and bring. I think we're still in a good place, we would disappoint you and obviously that Tyring's gone but we're not fatally wounded in terms of we won't be able to bounce back from it so we're in a good place, I've got good players so I'm not too perturbed about it. And one of those players that you hand brought in this window is officially eligible as a Bradford City player as of today, Matt Darfyshire. How has he settled in? It's doing okay, I'm not sure we've got international clearance yet but we'll check on that one I'm sure. Obviously in the next 24 hours we'll get confirmation on that. Matt's doing okay, he's delighted to be back in this country and training every day at a good level with good players around him, that's where his expectation was. That was the idea I sold him and thankfully he's not come banging on my door saying that you lied to me so he's in a good place at the moment and once we get clearance then we'll be ready to go. A lot of times pass between now and the last time that you were there. Do you see similarities in his game when you see him training? Yeah, he was always high energy, he was always a guy that had a really high work rate and worked the channels and made good runs, that was his strength. It would always get you a goal that was really good for me at Blackburn and obviously left around the time I did and had a really good career and credit to him and that only happens if you're a good professional and first and foremost a good player. He's prepared to go to different places to play his trade and I think that's made him a more rounded player. He's technically aware of what's required and we're back to that decision making about making the right decision at the right time. That comes from experience, that comes from playing in different countries, different styles of player that can only enhance your general player. When you work with a player at a young age like you did, do you always keep tabs on his career? Yeah, it's not as if you're on the phone to him and keeping in touch but you always keep an eye out and now and again you see some of the flash up and you'll say, he's gone mad now and he's still progressing, he's still playing and it's more difficult to see when some of the flashes up and they say they've retired and that really makes me feel old but it seems to be more of them of length. Matt's one of those players that you always wanted to do well because he was a really good professional, a good player clearly but he had elements as a personality that you hoped would enable him to do well and you always felt that he would just because of his desire to be the best he could be so really delighted that we're working with him again. Obviously myself and Glenn have known him for a long long time and he hasn't changed, he's slightly more mature I would suggest but he hasn't changed in his outlook to the game itself. I know it was a play that you were hopeful of bringing in during the summer so how did the initial interest come about? Well it's one of those that we were just made aware that there was a possibility, he was obviously at a different club and it looked like he wanted to come back home and there was a possibility that the club was going to allow that to happen so that's when the initial talks began, it ended up being more convoluted than we thought and we had to move on. And we had to allow it to pass us by but Glenn Tammati ran out and found himself a contract in India and was still playing that then. Similar scenario, it was a case study he wanted to come back again and we just asked if we were still interested and obviously timing this time was better than in the summer window. Pending international clearance then, is he eligible and fit enough to be available if selected tomorrow? Well wait and see, like I said he's been training for a number of days now so yeah he's local. He was a little bit poorly last week obviously with a bit of a chest infection that's been flying around so I'd have to make a decision on tomorrow night. But once the international clearance comes then he's good to go. Team news elsewhere in the squad, have you got available? Who have you not got available? No in terms of last time out, in terms of starting level, everybody else is available apart from Tyreek. Yeah predominantly the squad's okay, we're still missing like some Scotty Banks was out training today so hopefully we'll get back in the next week or so. Apart from that, just the guys that we know are injured, like some Mannie or whatever. Liam Wright is back training with the group so that's good to see, he's been out a long time so we're encouraged by that. Apart from that, as we were last time on. How close is Mannie? He's out on the grass, he's running around, he's shouting and bawling so yeah I don't think he's too far off obviously. We're going to have to be careful in terms of how we reintroduce him but he won't need any work on his enthusiasm. He probably thinks he should be playing now but that's not really realistic but I can imagine that once he does get playing again he'll be very quick. It will be a shot period to have before he's in the house he wants to. And just finally from me on Watchdale, obviously a game that was postponed before Christmas that you described it as a winnable game and at the time does that sentiment still range through? Yeah I think so obviously they're still in a situation at the bottom of the lead that they would prefer to not be involved in but as I've said with all the teams at this level they've all got talent within their group that can hurt you having looked at them this week. That's the case with Watchdale, they've got good talent in key areas of the field, top of the pitch, in wide areas as well and those are the areas that can cause you a problem if you don't address them so I think the key is that we don't underestimate anybody. You can't afford to in this league and we'll be ready to go again, we're in a good place obviously two home wins, we want to make it three. I think if we can approach it as we have done the last two games then we'll be fine. Given what you said after the Carlisle game about the length of time you've had off the forehand, how important to you is it that this game comes on the Tuesday when you haven't been able to talk to me? Well that was one of the things that we discussed when we had a couple of options in terms of where we wanted to put it but we looked at the calendar and obviously the gap on the weekend, if we hadn't added this week the Watchdale game then once again we're looking at two weeks before we had a game again so we didn't want to have that situation once again so we're happy enough with the date. Obviously we've got other games and we're going to have to fill in the role so I think it's fallen by the wayside so we're going to have to get a date for that. Gilling them obviously hasn't been confirmed yet I don't think so it's going to be busy but I think we're probably better playing Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday. I think we just have that continuity in that rhythm to our play and I think we're better off playing twice a week. You've said before as well to do with the time wise momentum but momentum also? Yeah, that's part of it obviously you want that rhythm of playing and winning games and going into the next game and hopefully winning again and just getting that momentum in terms of your mentality because obviously if you're winning every week then that changes your mindset, you're confident, you have no apprehension and you're going into games expecting to win. I'm not hoping to win so that's where we are at the moment so as long as we keep winning that will keep me in the case. And that's something you've noticed in the players, their confidence has gone up? Yeah very much so I just think certainly in training the level's always good I have to say but yeah there's a little bit more of a dynamic maybe. You sense that once again we're looking ahead to the next game, can't wait for it to come round again and that was the case for the soulful game after Harrogate so we felt we played well against Harrogate. We've gone away for the soulful game, won that so on to the next one so we're constantly looking ahead to the only one game, the next one that's ahead of us but it's about having excitement and no apprehension and certainly it's excitement at the moment. Mark, about the Tyreate trying to pin him down with the deal here, that must add to the frustration because obviously presumably a lot of work went into that to convince him that his future could be with his club currently in league too. Yeah I think he got very close, I think he was very tempted, I think obviously if the water hadn't been muddied by another club coming on the scene I think there was a real possibility that it would have signed a permanent. But in the end you have to accept that the situation that was presented to him in terms of the potential to go to a higher league is a big thing for a young player. They want to take that opportunity and ask the question and try and give them an indication that maybe you've got to be careful what you do move. Are you going to play a week in, week out like he is here or would have been here? But I said Tyreate was always going to back his own ability and why wouldn't he? He's a talented boy so you can't stand in people's way. He wants to keep progressing his career and we thank him for his efforts but he wasn't to be unfortunate. Is there always that fear when you were doing the deal that someone's going to come in here and he's going to be put out there for other clubs to see what's going on? Yeah I think there's that case and that will happen. It's very difficult to keep any deal under wraps totally so you realise that there's going to come a point where the decision has to be made. And once more people are aware of it then there's more potential for it to fall by the wayside which was the case with Tyreate but some players will move on as well and we wish them well. You get support from some frustrated loan players and they say that's a risk with loan players but when you're in league 2 every team does it. The loan market is so important to every club. As I said before it's about getting good players, good level players into your club that under normal circumstances you won't have any chance of playing for your club because financially they'll be above you. So the loan market works to that extent but there will be moments when you haven't been able to make sure the contract is right in terms of when they come because they won't sign certain clauses so you have to run with it just to get them over the line. So there's a number of other players here that we've obviously tied in to their continuation here by virtue of the amount of games they've played for us. Yeah but sometimes they won't accept that and you have to accept that so we weren't able to do that with Ty so he's been recalled but it doesn't put us off going into the loan market again so we pull a talent that we have to be aware of and have the ability to dip into. And again Tyree's success encourages other high-level clubs when you talk to them and you can say look this is what we've done with Tyree and they can sort of see the progress. Yeah I'd like to think that. Clearly as I said before Tyree's previous loans he would have admitted himself and gone as well and he was enjoying this loan, this one was his most enjoyable one, he's actually set that himself. So yeah and I think that's because of the work he's got, the success obviously that he's been able to have and the platform that he's been able to show his talent on so yeah high-level clubs take note of that so I've said before we're a good option we can offer. Young players from top clubs experience that certainly at our level lead to no one else can offer so that's why we're a good option. And also when you've got these loan clubs they know that this is a great test for them because they're not ready for the Premier League yet but this is probably in the same sort of surroundings for lead too, it's the big plus so you've got that pressure. Yeah there's pressure, there's expectation and they're going to deal with that if they're going to be a top player which they all hope when you're at a Premier League club and you go out on loan you expect your talent to be able to cope with the demands but it's different. A lot of guys go out on their first loan and struggle just because it's different, totally different to what they used to so I think it's sometimes better if it's not a first loan I think if they've been out before even if it's just for a short period I think that helps because that gives them a real understanding of what their league is like. Because the first one is more perhaps an hour before? Yeah, some can embrace it immediately, others think wow what's just happened, why am I here you know so yeah I think if you can get guys that have been out before or at a level that you can pretty much guarantee that they'll deal with what lead to throws at them then it's always worth going into the market and trying to get those players on the line. Mark, you talked to Pete about apprehension and excitement and I just wonder much as you try to fight it when you look back now do you think there was some apprehension building in terms of the home record? Well we talked about the home record needing to improve and we've got to a point where we weren't getting the results on the board and obviously our way of form was great and then we had obviously two performances. Leonorian and Carl Howe which obviously wasn't the level we hoped for so on the back of not getting enough home wins that that wasn't the ideal situation that we found ourselves in but we've turned the corner I think we've changed to a certain extent in terms of certain areas of the field. I think there'll be times when we'll look at who the opposition is or the circumstances of the game or are we playing a home or away and whether just accordingly but for the most part the way we went before and got us into a position where we were one game away from an automatic promotion play. So we weren't too far away from doing what we set out to certainly for the first half of the season but I just felt our home form we needed to be more on the front foot, we needed to have more numbers when those transitions and I think we've got to accept that we'll have less control and with less control then is the potential that things might just run for the opposition. But I think it's worth a gamble I think we want to be on the front foot and have good numbers where the ball is and create chances and put the ball into the box and see what happens and that's what we've tried to do the last two games. So do you think going forward obviously it's a home game next time you play away it'll be a case of maybe a slightly different set-up home in a way? Possibly, yeah I've always said I'm not fixed to one way of playing or one formation I think I've shown that and even within games we'll start with one formation and change to something else so it's not rigid to one way of playing and I think that would be crazy to be that way. I will always look clearly the opposition will set problems for you and you have to have an understanding of what you can do to reverse the problem that they seem to be affecting you with so that means sometimes you have to change a shape. Almost always it means maybe moving people around or changing them so just recognising what's happening in the game as it happens and being able to act accordingly. And whilst you've not had much luck recently with frozen pitches and FA controls and what have you, it's fallen nicely that again you were at home you had a chance to continue that momentum that you were talking about. Yeah three home games is unusual obviously it doesn't, ordinarily you wouldn't have that period of games but we've got to capitalise on that and make sure we get maximum points if we count nine points in three games it's an excellent return that's our intention that's what we want to do. We were talking to the Dane earlier and he was talking about learning from that, I just thought. From your perspective I think you were 32, you pretty much won everything in the game, experienced international and so on when Gianluca Vial joined Chelsea. Even at that stage of your development you're still able to learn from it. Yeah well I was shattered out, I'd had a year at Chelsea and we'd done OK and then like so Luca came and Gianfranco was over, top level players and Luca initially struggled because he was used to getting free kicks from referees and he probably went down a little bit too easily. So certainly the top league Premier League of that stage was refereed a little bit more, likely too of course, so you get away with a little bit more. So the initial year he probably struggled in and out of the team but still was really professional whenever he played. I always used to admire his understanding of the game, his intelligences, the clever way that he created space for himself and others. That was something clearly, he'd come from the Italian league and that was more tactical certainly than the Premier League was at that stage and you could see why he played like he did because he was constantly just creating little movements or getting into a little pocket of the space that I didn't have that space to affect the opposition. So top level player, even better man, great, great guy and it's a pleasure to work with him. I mean obviously you've got players like Andy Cork and the Dean who know their own game now but I guess the message to them is you can never stop learning from other people. No absolutely, no year. I went there and obviously I've predominantly been a man United for the vast majority of my career but I went there and every last three years of my career there were really enlightening and I think that's why I enjoyed my time there just because it was, I mean obviously you've got players like Andy Cork and the Dean who know their own game now but I guess the message to them is you can never stop learning from other people. So many different players come from all over Europe, from top teams and you're just, your eyes open to different ways of doing things that you thought were correct in the passing and it made you sit up and take notes that actually the result turned to what you've done all the time so it doesn't matter if it happens when you're 21 or 31, you've got to embrace that. Yeah because again you know sort of bringing it back to your guys I guess Biali coming in was in some ways a threat to your place but I'd say you could use it to your advantage. Yeah well I'd face that through, I was a striker at Man United for however long it was and every year there was talk that they were buying a striker so I had to see quite a few off and it was a little bit like that at Chelsea as well. I thought that when Luca came in I think surely quite possibly the intention was that he was going to play probably instead of me but as he panned out he ended up being myself and Zoltan really and Luca had to just buy this time but obviously when he came to be the player manager he was able to pick himself so I didn't get so many games but I never resented that, I respected him as a man and I respected him as a player. I mean do you have to, because obviously this is a big club at league 2 level as well, do you have to sort of foster that mentality that people are always aware that new players are going to be coming in and you've just got to watch the challenge. Yeah that's the reality of being a professional footballer, I wouldn't be doing my job if I just let good players take other opportunities when possibly they could come here so if I feel I can improve then I will always try and do that. That's the reality of football club within a league you've got to try and get better. If you don't or if you fall go over those opportunities then you're going to get left behind so as a player you should embrace the challenge and think right if someone's coming into the club then I've got to do a little bit better or see the challenge off. That was always my attitude, I always backed my own ability to do that so I think it still applies now.