Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch's pre-Arsenal press conference every word: Dallas and Cooper updates, Bamford plan

“I think we have players who can play the positions that Stuart played and play them well. And quite honestly, in the moment, I’m thinking more about Stuart than I am about, you know, what it would be like to replace him because I trust our team and our roster and our players. And I want Stuart to be healthy and pain free and back here with us and on the road to recovery. That’s my main focus for Stuart.”

“You know, even before Liam had to withdraw from the match we were going to play with him as a six against Man City. So you know, I mean, his flexibility, such are his qualities, it is helpful. But again, I think we have enough to cover him as well.”

“I haven’t been able to follow him a lot, but I certainly, as a player, watched him a lot and he was a great player. I think he’s transitioned into a very good manager and watching his team play, I can see they’re intelligent and they have a plan and and so I think that comes down to the way that he’s been coaching them. When you’re in this business you always like to hear when a manager gets a vote of confidence from the organisation and normally the only way to do that is to give a contract so, yeah, good for him. Congratulations.”

“It depends on the situation. Especially with a three game week coming, we can’t be going into the third game on fumes and not having enough players having a healthy body so we have to think about how to rotate through the week in the right way and how to use guys the right way so that we get the most out of evert game but also having as many fresh legs and ready legs on the pitch for each match. Right now we’re focused on Arsenal and what that’ll take and then we’ll have to transition quickly into Chelsea.”