#pressing

#pressing

The first five or six weeks, of course we had the player we signed but he was not completely ready. He was getting fitter but he had to do this in a Premier League game. This is not normal for a player. Ideally you would use him earlier in friendly matches but there is no time in the middle of the season for a friendly so we had to build him up playing Premier League and Champions League games.

There were sections of Bayern fans that questioned the Colombian's 70-million euro price tag when he was bought from Liverpool over the summer, but it's quite difficult to argue against the blistering start he's had to life with the reigning Bundesliga champions - and this is without the presence of Jamal Musiala in attack, who will not be making his return from injury until sometime next month.