Jesse Marsch press conference live: Leeds United head coach offers team news vs Aston Villa

We will take two weeks and we will get back to work. We feel like two weeks is a good time for everyone to get away.

Based on the type of injury and severity, everyone figured including the shoulders considered conservative recovery, which means no surgery. It was four weeks. We believe Rodri is a strong man, upper body, he’s done the right rehab. We’ve been allowed to be patient. He’s fit and strong and ready to go this week.

He’s an incredible person, humble, works hard, gives everything and the biggest thing we’ve tried to do is push his fitness. He’s adapted well to the level and now it’s about pushing the physical fitness levels we want for 90 minutes. It was a big travel to come from San Francisco but he will play this weekend.

I would urge Gareth [Southgate], if he needs a guy in the squad to do whatever it takes, and would support the entire team, Jack is that guy. It’s a pleasure to have him here.

We spoke about it. And I said was that he should feel good that he’s given himself every chance possible by how he’s played and the squad for the World Cup has not yet been chosen, there may be room still and find a spot. And he’s still young enough that even if it doesn’t come around this time, he has a big future no matter what.

I think the gap between the 21s and the first-team right now is a little bit too big. I think we have a general direction for the entire academy and a general direction for the high talents. For us, guys like Darko, Archie, Sonny, Mateo we try to include them in first team training every day. I think them being around that level is very important for their development and their confidence. Eventually I would like to give those players bigger opportunities. The one that comes to mind right now is Sonny Perkins scoring in every game and developing in the idea of how we want to play football. You start to think he deserves chances, let’s see what happens in the weeks and months

It’s not so important that everyone is totally happy. We want players to be on the pitch. We have to have a very high standard, and we do here. When the matches come quickly you can have injuries, you need rotation sometimes and where we are right now we can’t take anything for granted

I learned a lot about what it meant to play in front of our fans at Elland Road. We’ve had a pretty solid record playing at home. Part of it is playing with aggression, part of it is the energy and mood in our stadium with the fans. If we can be a really strong team at home, it allows us to play freer in away matches

I don’t want to leave. If I got an offer to go and manage anywhere in the world right now, I wouldn’t want to leave this spot.