Neil Warnock Quotes

When you have good players in your squad that means other clubs are looking to them as well. For me, it is a normal situation in football.

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

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

When you hear Liverpool want you, you call your agent back in about five seconds.

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.

Every year in the Premier League, every team is improving. Every team is buying new players.

When I was at Liverpool, I asked about Van Dijk when he was at Groningen and then at Celtic. But I was told he wouldn't be for us at the time. Van Dijk could have jumped from Celtic to a Liverpool.

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

It is always difficult to sign players even if you are a big club.

I am honoured by Juve's interest in my services.

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.

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.

It's quite confusing and odd when a footballer, instead of playing, is interested in bringing in players who are his friends.

It is a pleasure to see your name in the list of players that Barca want.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

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

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

There are maybe four or five teams who will pay whatever they need to pay to get the player. They are huge sums, but that is the world we now live in - when one of those four or five teams want a player, then they usually get them.

The decisions related to recruitment are all taken by football experts. My involvement is signing off the money.