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00:00Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome along to the press conference to unveil Christopher and Cunca.
00:06We'll start with Mauro Sumo, Milan TV. Thanks, Nicola. Good afternoon, Christopher.
00:16When you learned that your future would be at Milan, when you first heard the word Milan, what did you feel and what are your goals at the club?
00:27Ciao. The first time I knew I would come here is when I have the first contact with the sport director and my agent told me to that AC Milan want you, so for sure I didn't think a lot and I was so excited to hear the project and everything was perfect for me to come here.
00:54Emanuele Bajokini Sky.
00:55Good afternoon, Christopher. I'm over here. Welcome to Italy. Welcome to Milan.
01:05You've played a number of different positions in the last few years. You've played as a winger up front.
01:11You've played as a second striker, a number 10. That means that you can offer a number of different offensive options to your head coach.
01:20But where do you feel the most comfortable? Where do you like to play best?
01:26I like to play in attacking midterfielder, in the position, offensive position, after it depends on the animation.
01:35It depends also on the decision of the coach, for sure.
01:38And I'm excited to start and to adapt with my new teammate.
01:43Your last competitive game was in the FIFA Club World Cup final. How are you now? How fit are you? And are you already available for selection?
02:06I feel good. Yeah, I feel better. I start to train with the team this week. I was also training before in individual training, but I feel good.
02:18I feel ready to start with the team, to compete, and to be ready for the next game.
02:32Hi, Christopher. Welcome to the club.
02:35I was in Bergamo when you scored that brace against Atalanta for Leipzig a few years ago,
02:41and you moved to Chelsea after two wonderful seasons with Leipzig. You were world-class.
02:47What didn't pan out in London, and what do you think will go differently in Milan compared with the last two seasons?
02:54I think when I came, everything was perfect for me in Chelsea, but I had an injury just before the start of the season.
03:04It made me five months out, and after, when you have a long injury, I was like mixed between excited to come back and to be ready.
03:18So I came back with another muscle injury, which is normal after a long injury.
03:24And after the second year, I was here, I made the pre-season. I did everything to be ready, but I think after it's just a decision maybe with the coach or even me,
03:38I don't have a clear vision from the last season. It was just a decision from the coach, but yeah, I feel ready to...
03:48I'm the same player. You told me you were at the stadium in Atalanta. I'm the same player. I just want to play football to feel my team mate,
04:00to create some connection, to be happy on the pitch, and this is what will be different here at Milan.
04:08Hi, Christopher. Welcome to Milan. I've got some balloons over here. I've got a 15-pack of balloons because we know that you celebrate with balloons when you score.
04:27I've got 15 of them. Are they enough or do you need a few more balloons this season?
04:30No. I don't know if I need more. I just focus game by game. If I need more is because I did my job well.
04:38I think the first step is to know my team mate, to create some connection, to feel very comfortable with the squad, with the coach,
04:50and after the number of goals I will make, we will see at the end of the season. That's it.
04:54Good afternoon, Christopher. Welcome to the club.
05:03There's a lovely photo doing the rounds on social media of a photo of you, Adrian Rabiot, and Mike Mignon all with Paris Saint-Germain shirts when you were younger.
05:12There's also Yusuf for Fanat. Was it important to have some teammates that you already know,
05:20your teammates with the French national team, having such a French dressing room?
05:26Yes, definitely. I think to have four players and you before to come here, it will be helping me to be integrated with the team.
05:38They know the league. I can speak with them about it. They know the country also, the city.
05:48So it's important for me in terms of football, but also outside the football. So this is a good thing personally,
05:57but the thing is to be connected with all the squad, all the teammates, and this is my target.
06:05Good afternoon. Christopher, you've got some technical ability that we don't necessarily see a great deal of in Serie A.
06:23You can take players on, you're very quick in open space, and Rafael Liao has a similar skill set.
06:28Do you think that your skill set could make a real splash on our very physical league here in Serie A?
06:38And could you play up front alongside Rafael Liao? Would you swap positions?
06:43How do you see things working with Rafael Liao if you were to play together?
06:47I think, as I said, the most important thing is to be adapted with the league and my teammates.
06:56I have some characteristics close to Rafael, but the most important thing, as I said, is to be connected with all my teammates.
07:09I think I can adapt with the league, and this is my target, and yeah, Rafael Liao is a very good player.
07:21I saw what he can do in the last few years, and I think hopefully we can do a good thing together.
07:30I wanted to ask you, what have you made of the other forwards?
07:45Apart from Liao, there's Christian Pulisic, there's you, there's also Santi Jimenez.
07:50Which of these players do you know the best, and which of these three teammates do you think you're best suited to dovetail with in a front two?
08:02I think we have a good squad about defenders, midfielders, and attackers.
08:11About attackers, we have a lot of quality, and I think all players need to put their quality for the squad.
08:24And I think I can adapt to what the coach wants from me, and I will try to do my best for the coach and to do what he wants me to do on the pitch.
08:43Hi, Christopher. Welcome to Milan. I'd like to come back to what you were just saying there.
08:54You said that you'll do whatever the coach asks you to do on the pitch, but we saw some footage in training yesterday that you spent a while chatting to the head coach after training.
09:05What have you made of him, and what has he asked you for the first few days in training?
09:08My impression with the coach is, I have a good impression of him.
09:17I spoke before to sign here. Yesterday I didn't spoke a lot with him, so I don't know where you see this, but I spoke a little bit for sure.
09:28And for the moment, the target is for me to be adapted with the squad, to train with the squad, and to know more about my new environment.
09:39Hi. When you were first starting out at Paris Saint-Germain, you played with Cavani, Neymar, Verratti, Buffon, Mbappé, Ibrahimović.
09:58Do you have any stories about those players that helped you develop as a player?
10:07Something special is they are all similar about the mentality. They want every time to win in every training, every game.
10:20This is why they succeed in the world, and they want some trophies, and that's why also they are this type of player, that is.
10:34Good afternoon. I wanted to ask you, you've also said that you've played in three different positions in your career.
10:51How much of an impact do you think you can make amongst the Milan front line?
10:57I think this is competitive, and this is what I want, to be the best of me, and I will do my best.
11:11I know I have a lot to bring for the team, but like every player, I need to work every day, every game, to progress, to improve, and this is my target and my main goal.
11:41Hello, I wanted to ask you if there's a player you particularly look up to, or looked up to as a kid, maybe even a Milan player.
11:52In Milan, I like to watch Ronaldinho, Kaká, for sure.
11:57And as I said, I spoke with Thiago Silva about the club, and he told me very good things about the club.
12:06And we know that AC Milan is the best club in Italy, so I'm just excited to start, and to be ready to compete with other team, and to show what I can do.
12:23That's it.
12:23Your name was already linked to the city of Milan a few months ago, because Inter, who weren't able to sign one of the best players in Italy in the shape of Adamola, Lukman, were keen on you.
12:45Given what a great player you are, I wanted to ask you how true that was, whether there was an offer from Inter, and how happy you are to be here at Milan.
12:57This is a different colour, different history, you've just defined it as the best club in Italy.
13:07I didn't speak with anybody in Inter Milan, as I said, when AC Milan came here, my agent spoke to me about AC Milan, I didn't think a lot.
13:18As I said, as I said, so I'm happy here, I want to be here, and I want to work and to stay in the future in AC Milan.
13:30Martin Sartorio.
13:31Sartorio.
13:33Good afternoon.
13:34You've played in France, you've played in England.
13:36I'd like to ask you quite simply, what do you expect from Serie A, and where can you improve your game?
13:41For my expectations, I didn't expect so much, I just want to adapt, and to see for myself, to have a point of view only by what I see.
13:57And what I need to improve is just about my characteristics, and to know the league first, and after I will adapt what I need to be focused on.
14:11Daniele Grassini, hi, welcome to the club.
14:20I wanted to ask you, there's an interesting statistic with regards to players signing from Chelsea in Serie A.
14:28You've got two teammates in the shape of Christian Pulisic and Ruben Loftus-Chiik, who both joined from Chelsea, and they had their best seasons of their careers here at Milan.
14:41Do you think that could inspire you, and what do you bring here from Chelsea to Milan, and what will Milan give to you?
14:48I think, first of all, I did my choice by myself.
14:54I'm a tough person, I don't watch a lot of things around me.
14:59I think, what I learned from Chelsea is about also tactics and everything in general, and what I can bring is depending on what the coach wants me to do.
15:15I think now it's a new club, a new atmosphere, a new way to play, and I've just focused on it for the moment.
15:24Hi Christopher, I wanted to ask you whether they've spoken to you about what the Milan derby means, and whether you're ready to play in it.
15:40I know the term of derby, in every league you have a derby, for sure.
15:50I don't know exactly what it means, because I didn't play for a derby here in Milan.
15:56But for sure, I definitely speak about it with some players, and they say this is the game, and for sure I will discover this game.
16:04But like a derby, I think the atmosphere is different, but I'm just focused on every game, and this is the main part.
16:15Milan Press.
16:18Milan Press.
16:21Good afternoon, Christopher.
16:23Welcome to Milan.
16:24At Chelsea, Enzo Mareska bid you farewell by saying that you're a consummate professional, you always trained 100%, but Colplante, Parma, played in the same position as you.
16:39The feeling is here that you're right at the heart of the club's plans, so I wanted to ask you how your prospects now change because of that.
16:47The difference for me is that I want to compete, I want to win games, I want to win trophies, and this is my target.
17:05And I want to improve in every training, this is my mentality, and I will do everything for her.
17:22Pelegati and then L'Equipe in French.
17:25Good afternoon, you were born in L'Agnis-sur-Marne, which is 10 kilometers from Disneyland.
17:35I'm sure you've been many times.
17:37I wanted to ask you, in terms of Disneyland, is it more of the Pirates of the Caribbean?
17:45Is it more of a roller coaster?
17:48What's your style of play most similar to?
17:51Sorry, I didn't understand.
17:55I've also got a question, B.
18:01You're halfway through your career.
18:04If you had to summarize your career so far, what would you say?
18:08Are you happy?
18:09Do you want more?
18:10What stage are you at?
18:12Yeah, for sure.
18:13Definitely, I want more about my career.
18:17I'm a competitor, so I want to achieve everything I can achieve.
18:21As I said, I want to be better than yesterday, so every time I want to improve.
18:31If I need to improve on something, I will do everything to improve on it.
18:34And this is my focus.
18:39Before l'équipe, let's have Massimo Canta.
18:43Hi, Christopher.
18:44Welcome to the club.
18:46I wanted to ask you, you've spoken about San Siro in recent days.
18:50You said that you couldn't wait to call it home.
18:52I wanted to ask you, how does it feel to play at that stadium?
19:00I think I will have a good emotion because this is a very big stadium.
19:05Last time I came to the stadium, we won against Italy.
19:09I will stay humble, but we won.
19:13And I saw the atmosphere, the atmosphere of the stadium.
19:18And this is what I always wanted when I dreamed about to be a football player.
19:28This kind of thing, the passion, the emotion.
19:31So I want to discover this.
19:33Welcome, Christopher.
19:44Very quickly.
19:48Is this a career move that you've made based on the French national team
19:51and with the World Cup coming at the end of the season?
19:55And did you speak to Didier Deschamps and his staff before moving here?
19:57Of course, the French national team did come into my thinking.
20:11Everyone wants to play for their national team.
20:12To be a national team, you know that in order to make a national team,
20:16you need to perform at club level.
20:18And so I did make a decision based on that.
20:20My first object, I speak to the French now.
20:23My bad.
20:25Because I will do it in English, sorry.
20:28Yeah, for sure.
20:29It's good in French.
20:30It's good in French.
20:31Yes, of course.
20:32It's good in French.
20:33As I was saying.
20:36It was all about finding a project like AC Milan to be competitive.
20:45Again, I'm a competitor and AC Milan's plans really convinced me when I spoke to them.
20:54Didier Deschamps makes his selections based on our club performances.
20:59And so it's up to me to perform.
21:02And of course, as a player, as a competitor,
21:05you can't help but think about the World Cup at the end of the season.
21:08But the most important thing, as I said, is to adapt to my new club,
21:14to this new country, to this new league,
21:17in order to show what I'm capable of.
21:24Thank you, Christopher.
21:25Thank you very much, everyone.
21:26We'll wait a few minutes for the next press.
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