DE ZERBI WILL STAY, RELEGATION OR NOT | 'I CONFIRM EVERYTHING' | PRESS CONFERENCE

Roberto De Zerbi says staying in the Premier League on Sunday is a harder task than winning a Europa League final — and in the embargoed section of his pre-Everton press conference, he explains why.

This is the embargoed part of De Zerbi's final media briefing before Spurs v Everton — the longer, more reflective questions from the written press. Less team news, more on mentality, pressure, his own future, and what a relegation fight really does to a squad.

He gets into:

- Whether he'd still have taken the Tottenham job knowing it would come to this

- Managing the pressure of a cup-final-type game — and why pressure can be a good thing

- Whether this group of players is mentally tough enough

- How he'll prepare the squad, and why "nothing is impossible"

- Last year's Europa League win — inspiration, or something to forget?

- Why he rates staying up as a harder task than the final in Bilbao

- A firm answer to the accusation that these players don't care

- Playing for the future of Tottenham — the players', and his own

- His promise to stay at the club whatever happens on Sunday

- What relegation with Benevento taught him about a survival fight

- Why the squad is travelling and staying together before the game

- What the players must do to get a nervous stadium behind them

CHAPTERS:

00:00 — Would you have taken the job, knowing this?
01:11 — Managing the pressure of a cup final
02:36 — Are these players tough enough?
03:03 — Preparing the players: "nothing is impossible"
04:36 — Last year's Europa League: inspiration, or forget it?
05:17 — "Bigger than Bilbao": why this is harder than a final
06:07 — "Absolutely false": do these players care?
07:26 — WILL YOU STAY IF RELEGATED
08:04 — What relegation with Benevento taught him
10:09 — Why the squad travels together
11:34 — The atmosphere and home advantage

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