Every word from Jesse Marsch’s pre-Forest press conference as Leeds United boss addresses injuries

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JM: “Unfortunately, we lost Rodri for 6-8 weeks, as we announced yesterday.Adam we are building up but not ready yet. Stuart Dallas is making progress, and Archie picked up a small injury and he won’t be available.”

JM: “I always feel it’s our responsibility to manage these guys, you want them to stay out of harm. We have been pretty good with muscular injuries, but this one was a contact injury that caused a small fracture in the bottom of his fibia.

“You can’t avoid that kind of injury.We think maybe we should have kept him out, but then we wanted to work with Patrick Bamford and him together. The good news is that Patrick is looking good, and this is the reason we went out to sign Georginio, who is looking really good.”

JM: “He is intelligent, and it will take time to adapt, but I’m pleased with what I’ve seen.”

JM: “For me, it’s totally on our process. It’s clear our group is coming together in a really strong way. We can’t avoid the topic of what the table is. It’s very tight, and it makes the match against Nottingham very important.

“But we have created a process where we concentrate on ourselves, and now it’s time to focus on our results. If you go through our last seven games, we have only lost one. We are on an uptick, and we will keep pushing.”

JM: “It’s time to talk about transfers, I guess. How I would decide it, in the 11th hour, something came from Leicester. We had been talking with jack for a while about renogitating his contract. It has gone well but it has kind of stalled at moments.

“We have spent a lot of money, and then in the 11th hour there was conversation after the interest. But in the end, we wanted Jack here and he wanted to stay. We are looking at the contract situation, and he has earned it.

“He is an important player. In the end, we all came together intelligently to decide we wanted him to stay, and Jack agreed.I think when it came so late, and you looked at how we spent money, we were trying to contemplate whether it was the right money, and Jack was away.

“For us, it was a chance to solidify how we feel about Jack, and how he feels about us. He has learned how invested the club is in him. I don’t fault anyone for visiting what a big offer could be, but we aligned ourselves in how we see Jack.”

“We felt like Rodri was hurt, Jack is an important player. he has played more minutes than any other player since I’ve been here. It was late and we had to get everyone aligned. “

JM: “Yes, he is.”

JM: “Yeah, I think his head is really clear. It was a chance for everyone to express how important he is for us. I wish my wife would show a vote in confidence in me the way we have in Jack in the last 48 hours.”

JM: “We go to a rival in the table, and it’s a moment for us to show that we are ready for bigger challenges. We have grown over the last six weeks.”

JM: “Yes, so first of all, Weston is a competitor. he believes in himself. he has incredible flexibility, and he can play almost any position on the pitch. he has real quality.

“At Schalke, they did things the way I like to do it. He has been outstanding in training, he is fit and he is ready. He is in consideration to start, and certainly in the squad.”

JM: “The fact that Patrick is in the best shape in a year and a half is the most important talking point. If he feels good physically, he is a natural goalscorer. He missed chances earlier in the season, but part of that is that he wasn’t right physically.

“We can use Georgie (Rutter) up front, and they can play together as well.”

JM: “Honestly, Diego wasn’t so easy. It leaves us a little bit thin in the back, but Diego felt there were things in his personal life where he needed a change. We had a good discussion, and in the end, Victor and I gave the OK knowing Diego needed it for his personal life.”

JM: “Diogo, is he ready to replace Diego? Probably not, but he can continue to work towards it. We feel we can push him for bigger challenges in the next couple of months.”

JM: “They are all back and ready for Sunday.”

JM: “I saw Jurgen Klopp’s response that he needed to have a lawyer, and maybe I should respond the same, I need Jurgen’s lawyer as well. Listen, when teams have the resources to make big transfers, that’s a benefit to them and their club.

“I’m concentrating on us, and I am thankful that we have a vision and that we are committed to putting that vision into place. We have had two very, very succesful transfer windows, and there is no question that our club is in a stronger place than a year ago.”

JM: “I’ve never felt more supported. The responsibility falls on me, on the staff. We are ont he right path. i have been saying that for weeks. Our transfers over the last two windows have been great, and I think we are developing a team our fans will be proud of.I am excited because I can see the team we can become.”

That’s all from Marsch this afternoon.

We’ll post the full stories to some of his comments right here in the coming minutes.