Rafael Benitez Quotes

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

The buying power of clubs is very different. You can't sign players if you don't have money, and if there is no money, that's it. As a player, there's nothing you can do.

The Premier League has the power to spend more money on players than the Bundesliga. This is very, very important for players.

We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

A good player is a good player, it's just that we cannot afford signings that do not work.

To be realistic, the big Dutch clubs cannot afford me. That's not because of my wages; it's the transfer fee.

The vast sums of money that are coming in at the top end of the game are stretching the rest of the sides to try to get as much benefit out of what finance they've got and get the best players they can find for that finance.

Sometimes you have to manage, and you have to sell two or three players who aren't playing many games.

I can no longer understand what the parameters are for valuing a player. It's all too random and in the hands of whoever has more money.

Italian sides will find it hard to attract the world's top players while there is a salary cap.

PSG - I think they had a money problem and they couldn't buy players. This is the main reason I didn't go there.

It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.

Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.

I think the way City spends, I would say it's a lot of money. But they spend it in a responsible way. They attract good players, young players and they cost a lot of money.

When you've got money to spend, it's very easy to buy someone worth £50m rather than say, 'I'm going to play this 20-year-old English player.' It's easier to buy someone when you have the money to do it. But at the same time, if you give somebody an opportunity, you never know. You can only roll the dice and see how they perform.

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

We don't have major limits in the transfer market.

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.