Gianluigi Buffon Quotes

£25million or £30m or £20m - whether you are expensive or not, players are just players.

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

Now astronomical wages are making it very difficult to take somebody who might not even have a transfer fee attached to them, because of the net value that they want and the net value that they're worth.

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.

Transfer fees don't show which player is better. It's only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

Nowadays, it's hard to know if a player really deserves the money spent on him, because transfer values are high.

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.

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.

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.

In the face of a big offer, no player is not for sale.

Some players have got their price, but, to be honest, that's not the way I look at the game.

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 main problem with English players has always been the price.

You cannot bring in two or three top-class players if you don't have the money. You have to sell.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

I don't think running backs have ever been under-valued.

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

When a club has €200m left on its transfer budget in the final days of the transfer period, why shouldn't they make a higher bid when their initial €70m bid has been rejected?

When I told Arsene Wenger I was leaving, he said to me, 'I have £25m to spend on a few players.' My answer was, 'Obviously, Mr. Wenger, you are not shopping in Harrods. That will only buy you one good player.' Now I have been proved right.

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

You don't feel wanted by a club when you sign for them for however much and all of a sudden you're there for two training sessions and they've just bought someone for double the amount.

Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position - two deep. That will be hard to beat.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.