Alan Pardew Quotes

When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

I want to help Leeds United return to the level our history and fans deserve. When I came to the club, I gave myself three years to deliver that and my vision remains the same: return the club to its rightful place in the Premier League and make our fans, players and staff proud of their football team.

I remember at Man City when you saw people like Andy Cole walk through the door, you start thinking: 'We can get into Europe.'

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

I hope I'm lucky enough to be at Arsenal for a long time.

From a footballer's point of view, if you want to choose a football club, then Arsenal is right up there with the best.

I dream of being managed by Arsene Wenger.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

It's easier to fine tune in club football, and you have the chance to win the Champions League every year.

It is important to keep Manchester United on top of the world.

I want Fulham to be very successful.

My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.

I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.

I can only thank Manchester City for everything they have done for me. What we have achieved in such a short space of time has been amazing.

I hope we can put Manchester United back where they deserve to be.

If we can get Hibs into European football it would be massive for everyone involved.

Liverpool is a great club, and we have to put Liverpool back in the Champions League.

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.

I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.

With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.

Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among the best in Europe.