Alan Pardew Quotes

Dortmund tried very early to sign me and always kept in close contact with me - this behaviour has really impressed me.

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.

I have already told Vermaelen to come to Napoli 10 times. The city is magnificent and even Benitez asked me to convince Vermaelen to come here.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

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

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

Everything depends on the club more than the player: the quantities, the paperwork.

There are certain guys you just take from different teams that you watch.

It's not enough to just have talent at Atletico Madrid. At other clubs it is, but we can't sign superstars and have to look for players with a good work ethic.

Carlo Ancelotti wanted me in Madrid and had bet on me.

It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

The most important thing in IPL is to select the players. You don't get much time to develop a team so it's important to pick the right players.

I have never had any contact with Bayern Munich, let alone have agreed personal terms.

It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

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

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.

When you believe in one player to improve the squad, you have to do everything that is possible for us as a club to sign these players.

I'm not Arsene Wenger. We're different. I want to win

I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.