Thibaut Courtois Quotes

You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

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

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

Every team in the league is always looking to upgrade its talent.

Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.

It is not always possible, but the best plan is always to keep hold of your best players.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

When young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them.

We have always made sure that players who have played for CSK, even those who came from other franchises for whatever reason, have performed well.

Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.

If we can't find the next technological breakthrough, well, maybe we can be better than anyone else with how we treat our players and how we connect with players and the relationships we develop and how we put them in positions to succeed.

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.