_Ange was asked for his thoughts on drawing National League side Tamworth away in the third round of the Emirates FA Cup..._
Ange: "It's an exciting bit of the cup. I was watching it with my boys, and they asked me a million questions about Tamworth, and I had to do some quick Googling. Actually no, to be fair, I'd watched the previous round. I like watching the FA Cup games. I saw how they'd got through, so I knew a little bit about them. It's the beautiful part of the FA Cup. I'm sure they're buzzing to have a Premier League team there. It's great for us because it's a tie that will obviously have a little bit of interest around it and one I look forward to."
Josh Keeley
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_Academy goalkeeper Josh Keeley scored a late equaliser for loan side Leyton Orient, helping the Os progress against Oldham, Ange was asked about Josh..._
Ange: "Josh, he worked with us last year and with Burchy (goalkeeper coach) and it's important with the young guys and with the goalkeepers to get them some game time. I think the loan's worked out really well. He's gone there, he's worked his way into the team and he's doing really well. He's goalkeeping well. I don't know how excited I get about goalkeepers scoring headers... it's great and great for him, I'm sure, but it's not kind of the attributes I'm looking for in a goalkeeper! But the point is, he is doing well. You go into a loan club, especially as a goalkeeper, a young goalkeeper, and you have to earn the trust of the manager to end up being the number one. The fact that he has and and he's doing well it's good. It's what we want to see from our loan guys."
Archie, Djed and Lucas...
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_It was put to Ange, 'between them Djed, Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall have only played 116 minutes in the Premier League, different people, positions, but are those three ready to play at that level?'_
Ange: "You're missing a big bit there, mate. How much has Archie played? We've had midweek games, he's started Carabao Cup, started every Europa game, so he's played. He is part of this team. I think he is separate from Lucas, but we've used Archie as an eight and I don't know how many of the top sides are using 18-year-olds regularly. I think for where Archie is at, we've certainly utilised him in many different areas and he's done fantastically well for us. Lucas and Djed are in a different position. With Lucas, again, we need to make sure we allow him to develop without putting him in before we think he is ready, particularly for Premier League football. I think that's where the Europa League has been good for us because it's a different level of football in terms of the intensity and tempo. Lucas is working his way through that and has had a couple of cameos in the Premier League as well and like I said with Djed, it's kind of a different scenario. From us, obviously, we can't lose sight of the fact they are still 18 and if people can show me evidence of 18-year-olds playing regularly, apart from some exceptions, and there is a reason for that because you want to allow them to grow into it. I have used Archie every time we've needed him and he'll definitely play significant game time for us this year, for sure."
Yang Min-hyeok+younger players
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_Ange was asked, 'you've got Yang Min-hyeok joining in January, another 18-year-old. Is the number of young players in squad a reason for patience?'_
Ange: "It depends which way you look at it, but like I've said before, I think it's the way you build. If you are trying to build, what you want is young players because ultimately every team goes through it's cycles and we don't have many at the top end in terms of age wise. We have a few in that sweet spot of peak years as they call them and a lot who will grow into that over the next number of years. What you want is hopefully those 18-year-olds, not all of them, but you want the majority of them to start growing with the team and breaking through, so there is a longer term view which has to be taken from a team and squad perspective. We have gone heavy on the younger ages but that is a deliberate process because we're at the start of a cycle. If you're closer to where you want to be and two or three years into it, you're less likely to because then you are denying them opportunities. What we're hoping is, we're bringing them in but they'll still get opportunities at this point of where we're at. Again, the flip side of that is with Yang, 18-year-old coming from a totally different part of the world, different league and it's a massive step then say Archie doing it from Championship to Premier League, so we have to be mindful of what impact we expect from someone like that."
_Is Yang here yet?_
Ange: "No, he hasn't arrived yet. He'll have some time off. Their league finishes and I haven't spoken to the guys lately but I know he is keen to get over here and we'll get him over here. I remember with Celtic, we signed a couple of lads from Japan and Korea and middle to late December they joined us and it was good leading into January for those guys.
Sergio Reguilon
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_Ange was asked if Sergio was ready to play if required..._
Ange: "He is ready. He is training every day, so part of the squad, and we're down in numbers, but there is also a reason why Reggy is in the last year of his contract with us. We'll see how that all transpires, but nothing wrong with his attitude. He is training every day and we literally have schoolboys on the bench, so we're low down on numbers and he'll probably be involved again tomorrow."
Rotation - tough?
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_It was put to Ange that, with numbers down, is it tougher to protect players through rotation in this busy spell - for instance, Ange rested Dejan Kulusevski for Fulham..._
Ange: "You've always got to make decisions you think are right. I am never going to make decisions to alleviate or appease people's opinions. Deki has been our best player this year and I want to protect him because there is no chance he can play all these games we've got. Like I say, even if they can play, performance will invariably drop because it is not sustainable. We have to pick and choose. I thought the weekend game, particularly with Pape and Madders and Biss in there, we're missing Bentancur as well, whoever I was going to leave him out, it would leave a bit of a gap. And then losing Dom on the day didn't help. So, it's something we're going to have to do, particularly with the small numbers we have. Between now and Christmas, hopefully we'll get Romero and Micky back, but the rest of them probably won't. So, middle to front third, Bentancur included in that as he won't be available (domestically) for a while, so middle and front third, we'll have to rotate the players a fair bit."