Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Obviously, the closer you get to that moment, the more you start to realize 'this is the last year of my contract.'

Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think there's opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension's concerned.

This is a tough business, and you're asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they're hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.

You don't want to get to the point where you play out your contract and you get to those complicated situations where they can put the franchise tag on you and things like that.

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.

I want to earn a contract. I don't want a contract because in the next year I'm a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.

No matter what contract anyone is on it is important you are playing football. It is a short career and you have to earn a living but at the same time playing football is the best way to get better contracts anyway.

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.

If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says, 'I won more money.'