Club Management Quotes

At Bayern, the people in charge are football men. I always appreciated that.

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

I've been a director and chairman of three good, modest clubs - Coventry, Charlton and Fulham - and the abuse you get can be cruel and shameful. I've had a wonderful life and wouldn't change a moment of it professionally - except that I should never have become a director.

I've got the opportunity to manage a big football club, a seriously big football club, and I wasn't going to turn that down.

I think Milan lack a bit of renovation and planning for the future. Too often, they focused only on the present, particularly after the 2007 Champions League triumph.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

As I found at QPR, a club in the process of a takeover is paralysed.

Roma must have been mad to sell Mo Salah. Either that or they really needed the money.

I'm aware that at the big, big clubs stuff can change quickly, as can opinions and people in charge. Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.

I think it's very tough to manage a club like United.

When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation... you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.

Because a man is placed in charge of a club does not make it necessary for him to be a taskmaster or a tyrant. In my opinion, he ought to be as lenient with his club as circumstances allow, and the less he interferes with the personal liberties of the men, the better.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

Managing a club like Oldham has to be an all-absorbing, seven-days-a-week commitment.

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

As soon as Jose Mourinho was given the job, I knew that he was the right man for Manchester United.

The spokesman at Newcastle, unfortunately, was mainly me. I had to manage the football club.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.

The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.

Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

It cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.