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What is the latest injury news ahead of the Bournemouth game?

Injuries, Javier Hernandez has worked with the squad this week from Wednesday until today and Fredericks has done just a small part of work with the squad.

All the other players long term injuries so we will continue with the ones who are fit.

What about Marko Arnautovic, is he likely to play?

Marko is working with the team without any problem.

How do you sum up his mood right now as he clearly wants to leave?

When you have such a high offer, everyone wants to leave but he has a contract here and we know what will happen about it in the coming days.

How are you managing the situation? You have managed in China before

Of course you cant blame him, he knows what is the best option for him and now we will see what happens between the club.

Dimitri Payet refused to play, are you concerned Marko will do the same?

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I don't think that the player will refuse to play.

How important is Javier Hernandez to you in this window?

These are all just rumours about so many players that will come to West Ham or go from West Ham, Javier is part of the squad. Unfortunately for him he has had two long injuries this season for about five weeks every time.

He will continue to be an important player for us.

Are West Ham negotiating on a deal for Krzystof Piatek from Genoa?

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No. I won't talk about rumours, it is impossible to talk about so many names that are always involved around this club.

How good is Declan Rice going to be?

I think the way he continues to work as he has done, he is a player who will continue imporivng. He is just 20 years old so he has a lot more years to continue growing as a player and he will be a top player.

Where do you see his best position?

He can play in both [midfield and defence]. Maybe in the way he can play more as a midfielder he will have the best view of the pitch but I repeat, he is improving every day and can play with no problem in defence as well.

Is he good enough for Manchester City?

That's just another rumour. I agree that Rice can play in every team.

What about his international future?

We must wait for his decision.

Samir Nasri has come in and you have won your last two games, is that a coincidence?

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I said when I gave him the chance to work with us, I know he is a different player now but has a lot of quality, he wants revenge in football to return to be the decisive player that he was with me at Manchester City. His quality, nobody had any doubts about it.

Marcelo Bielsa gave some extraordinary details on his analysis, what have you made of that?

I don't know if it is typical of south America. Maybe some coaches can do it, not all of them, but if he thinks it is a good way to work I respect his opinion.

Have you ever sent a spy to watch a training session?

No, not myself no.

West Ham games against Bournemouth have a lot of goals in them, expecting the same again?

Bournemouth are a team that have very good players. They always score goals because they play with two strikers, very good technical midfielders, so for one side we must be very concentrated and try not to allow them to score and of course our team always try to score so we will see a good game.

Your team have struggled to back up big wins the following match, any idea why?

It is difficult to know the reason but of course when you have a good result against a big team like Arsenal maybe the players can think that can be enough to win the next game, to win the next game is to play in the same way as you did against Arsenal.

It is a mentality that we will try to improve, I hope that this time we are not going to make that mistake.

It is not an easy game, I don’t think that because we beat Arsenal we are forced to beat Bournemouth, I repeat, Bournemouth is a team that has very good players, working with the same manager a lot of years and if we want to beat them we will have to play a very good game.

Do you think that Bournemouth will look at West Ham as a scalp if they beat you?

I don’t know in the way Bournemouth sees its rivals what I know is that West Ham must be clear that we play always with 60,000 behind us, a team that has good players.

We are trying to have a new mentality, everyone is working hard from the owners, the manager, staff and players. Maybe you cannot obtain this in one season but I hope that we can continue now until the end of the season working and playing in the way we like to do it.

Can this be the start of another good run?

It is what we want of course, we want to continue with the good results but one of the things that the team is doing better during this season, is the results that we had in December, that is the most difficult month in the Premier League.

We saw many players injured, of course we need to finish January and play six games more, we continue with the same amount of players injured. I hope that we can continue obtaining good results but I repeat it is not easy with so many players injured.

Do you find there are more transfer questions in England anywhere else?

No in every country it is similar when you have the option to improve your team of course the team starts moving everywhere. Here in England the clubs have more money so they can do more changes but it is similar everywhere.

Does the Premier League riches make January worse?

Yes because you can bring more players.

And lose them to...

Of course, you can lose. I think that is a period the authorities must talk a little bit more about how the way they must do it. I think it is not normal that you can leave you club in the middle of the season because another team has more money and takes your best players.

I don’t think that is a good idea to make so many transfers in this period.

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Would you like to see the January window reformed?

I think that they [the Premier League] must study it a little bit more how it works. I think that it must exist but there must be some rules about the way it must work.

So only be able to make changes in the summer?

No, not about the amount of money but the number of changes or I don’t think a player can play in the same league for two different teams, maybe if you go away you can go but I don’t think that...maybe talking about Leicester three years ago when they were fighting for the title, in comes a big club and takes out two of their players.

I don’t think that would have been fair in the same season.

Would that make your life easier?

I don’t know about my life but I think football would be more fair.

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