Gary Lineker Quotes

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

If you excel, there will always be teams interested in signing the biggest players.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

We want to bring our own players through. That is what people like about Ajax.

First, as an owner of the club, you must choose a style of football. After that, you must find the managers that will work with the young players in your team in that style. After that, you must put a manager in the squad with the same mentality.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they've got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they've been brought up with.

The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

The more players who come through the academy and make it into the first team, that's what we want. Not just for the club but for the country. If they're young English players coming through, that's fantastic. I'm happy to be part of that.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.

Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.

When I was playing for Chelsea and Arsenal, we had a young team but also experienced players. You still have space for the youngsters to play, they just have to be strong mentally to compete every week.

In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don't need it.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

Arsenal will always come first. You name them - Henry, Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp. People saw these stars shine, and they thought: 'Is there life after Vieira, Pires or Bergkamp?'. But look at what happens here. At Arsenal, you always see young, fresh talent grow into the same role as those stars who have left. Other players have replaced them.

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.