Louis van Gaal Quotes

Liverpool will always buy good players, even if they already have good players. That's normal. I think it has to be normal for a club like Liverpool because that means you're a big club.

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

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.

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.

Every summer at a club is important because you have some changes in the squad.

You can't look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.

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

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

If you have a lot of injuries for a long period, that makes it more normal to bring in new players.

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.

Who wants to lose or sell a player? Nobody does.

The coach can only choose 11 players to start. It is a difficult decision.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

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.

Football never stops, and that's why you need a big squad.

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.

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

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

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.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

If you lose a player who scores seven, eight, or nine goals, you have to find another one.

I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.

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

I think what Brendan Rodgers did was right; I thought it was successful. He was able to show that he was able to change several players, prove to everybody in the team that no-one's guaranteed a spot, rest a lot of key players, and at the same time walk away with a very reputable result.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.