Toni Kroos Quotes

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.

When I was at Leipzig, I was coming on for the last 10 or 20 minutes, and the game has kind of gone then. You don't get a feel for how you are as a player.

So many guys come onto the scene who aren't supposed to be there. You pull for one, and then you see there's another and another and another, and you start to say, 'Who cares where a player was drafted? He can play football, and he can play at this level.'

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

Everybody makes a big deal about small ball. Well, I've guarded Anthony Davis every time I've played him, since he first came into the league.

You could have a player that gave you some iffiness but his talent would make a real contribution, but you had to have an overwhelming base of players so you know exactly what you had.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

Moise Kean is Moise Kean and Lukaku is Lukaku. It doesn't make sense to make these comparisons.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

People are so quick to say someone is a fantastic player and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or after just one good year. I disagree with that.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was ideal for me.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

When you go to like the Nike Hoops Summit, or the All-Canadian Game, all those really matter in your development and how people perceive you as far as how good of a player you are.

We want to be strong and we want to be in a position to maximise the potential of the players in every game because it's a long season with 46 league games.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

Within 10 minutes of a WSL game finishing, virtually ever player gets feedback on their performances in terms of England-level requirements.

I don't think I've still got things to show Carlo Ancelotti. He has seen me play a lot, even before he was our manager, and he knows what I can do.

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

The key for scouting is trying to predict when the player is peaking.

The Reeves Nelson debacle, that hurt me. There are certain things regarding him that I couldn't say then and still can't. But I should have pulled the plug on him after his sophomore year. We tried to make it work, but we couldn't make it happen.

It's not always the fault of the manager when a player is not performing well, I can tell you.

Football has never been about young or old players - it is about good or bad players. If you're 13 or 31 and good enough, you're not too young or old.