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Hi Pap, me.

Just to start with, I'll start with Tiago, obviously there's a few questions in one here really.

First of all, is it complete rest for him at the moment?

Or is he able to do some fitness work and what

confidence is there that Melwood had to go through extra testing as well and what confidence is there

that obviously the virus hasn't spread further

and that the protocols in place have in fact worked.

Yeah, it shows again that health and family are the most important things in life. After football directly, after football directly, after football directly but we wish him a speedy recovery and but I wish everyone

who's fighting at this moment the virus is in recovery and hope everything goes well so we decided

already from the start of the pandemic that we will not make any comments about the

individuals about the situation.

So I would keep it like this, to be honest, as a club.

But in general terms, I'm just thinking of what concerns are that it may have spread through the rest of the squad or is the complete confidence that those protocols do in fact work and you guys have gone through extra testing so you know that?

Yeah, that's why it's a big compliment to our structure.

First and foremost, because we have testing in place by the Premier League,

but we also do private testing.

And what I said in the last press conference the most important thing is

keeping discipline and we're following these discipline rules so and we test

immediately when something happens, so that's, yeah, it's all okay.

Just on general fitness terms, I'm thinking of Jordan Henderson at the moment as well.

Is this game too soon for him and any chance for Villa at the moment as well is this game too soon for him and

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