{"id":16735,"date":"2026-09-03T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/sergej-jakirovic-press-conference-hull-city-vs-aston-villa\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:25:43","slug":"sergej-jakirovic-press-conference-hull-city-vs-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/sergej-jakirovic-press-conference-hull-city-vs-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergej Jakirovic press conference: Hull City vs Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published<time datetime=\"2026-09-03T13:34:11.457Z\">3 hours ago<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic has been speaking to the media before Saturday&#039;s Premier League game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> at MKM Stadium (kick-off 17:30 BST).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key lines from his news conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>On the transfer window, Jakirovic said: &quot;Finally finished, thank God! Now we can concentrate on our job.&quot; He added: &quot;I am pleased because we have worked very hard this last two months, a lot of calls, a lot of negotiations with players. We always had our plan to bring quality that we can improve our team but don&#039;t forget also we lost 12 players from last season, so we needed these players.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The City boss says the number of players he has to work with is &quot;excellent because we have good competition&quot;. He also emphasised the importance of his players who finish the game, as well as those who start.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Jakirovic confirmed he will sign a new contract &quot;very soon&quot; and said it was an &quot;easy decision&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On their transfer strategy, Jakirovic added: &quot;We had our shortlist but you know in this business it&#039;s always something new. It&#039;s coming to us, especially after two victories on the start of the season. They start to call us, agents and the players. Always we are trying to bring better players because this is everything about quality. If it&#039;s a similar player [as] we have in the building then what&#039;s the point? We try to improve, add quality.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On Liam Millar&#039;s loan move to Birmingham, the City boss said: &quot;This is football business. I&#039;m very sorry because Liam left the club.&quot; He also explained they have three players who can play in that position.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Jakirovic says their &quot;team spirit is very high&quot;, which he says is important &quot;also for these new players as soon as possible that we have this unity in the team&quot;. He added: &quot;This is why players from last season are extremely important because they know this feeling and I hope these new players will fit in the group as soon as possible.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The City boss admits it&#039;s &quot;a great start in the league for us&quot; but says they are &quot;always looking forward&quot;. He added: &quot;We have now a new game, a new challenge against Aston Villa. Always we will try to take something from this game and hopefully we will be successful.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_five_live?at_mid=cZk1mYkgoH&amp;at_campaign=Football_Commentary_SportSounds_5L&amp;at_medium=audio&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_audience_id=all_map_aud&amp;at_product=sounds&amp;at_brand=b0070hx6&amp;at_ptr_name=bbc&amp;at_ptr_type=editorial&amp;at_format=link&amp;at_objective=consumption&amp;at_bbc_team=ps\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live commentary of Hull City v Aston Villa from 17:30 BST on Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cqm2md2xxyynt\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Follow all of Friday&#039;s Premier League news conferences and the rest of the day&#039;s football news <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/send\/u239874050\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Got a question about Hull City? Get in touch here and we&#039;ll seek answers from our experts<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ask Me Anything green banner\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/fb3b\/live\/b3a324e0-1c9e-11f1-9120-a910fc22c6ac.png\"\/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/hull-city\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hull City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published3 hours agoHull City boss Sergej Jakirovic has been speaking to the media before Saturday&#8217;s Premier League game against Aston Villa at MKM Stadium (kick-off 17:30 BST).<br \/>\nHere are the key lines from his news conference:<br \/>\nOn the transfer window, Jakirovic said: &#8220;Finally finished, thank God! Now we can concentrate on our job.&#8221; He added: &#8220;I am pleased because we have worked very hard this last two months, a lot of calls, a lot of negotiations with players. We always had our plan to bring quality that we can improve our team but don&#8217;t forget also we lost 12 players from last season, so we needed these players.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe City boss says the number of players he has to work with is &#8220;excellent because we have good competition&#8221;. He also emphasised the importance of his players who finish the game, as well as those who start.<br \/>\nJakirovic confirmed he will sign a new contract &#8220;very soon&#8221; and said it was an &#8220;easy decision&#8221;.<br \/>\nOn their transfer strategy, Jakirovic added: &#8220;We had our shortlist but you ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}