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Andoni Iraola press conference: Chicago benefits, Ngumoha and Wirtz positions, transfers and more

**On whether it will be a few weeks until supporters 'see the team he wants' due to the World Cup and with the transfer market open until September...**

Probably, but not because I am going to meet the players late, or we are going to sign the players later. Even having my team ready for pre-season when there is a change of manager, these things take some time. I would like to say on the first day we are going to be perfect, that we're going to be in place, but probably it's not going to be like this. We will have to do the adaptation as quickly as possible.

I particularly hate this month of August because you start the competition, you still don't know if some of the players are going to leave, who is going to come, there is a lot of uncertainty. It's difficult to build a proper team with a lot of question marks, but it is what it is, it is the same for all the teams. It is the same every season and I particularly enjoy when it's the first of September - done, this is who we are and we build from here. But we have to deal with this month of August that I think a lot the coaches, if not all, we don't like it.

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**On whether anyone in the squad has 'surprised' him during the training camp...**

Yeah, a lot of players have surprised me, especially the younger players that I didn't know before. Because the senior players, you've played against them, you more or less know them, but a lot the young players, they have given a very high level. Very, very high level in these friendly games. They still have room to grow, that is always very good. We will recover players, it's not like if we play with the same 11 we played yesterday, it wouldn't be a good thing for us against Newcastle.

Definitely we are going to recover players. The ones that are also important because they've been in the World Cup, they've taken more responsibility in the previous seasons. Now it's a challenge with the first job with this group of players that have been here the first two weeks, and now we have to integrate the new ones slowly, slowly, but we have the advantage that we have some of the players who know more or less where we are going and also can help in this process.

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