Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

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

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

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

Paul Pogba cost Manchester United €105 million. Does he play like this?

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

It is nice to be the most expensive Dutchman, and it is nice for my agent and for Ajax. But it does not matter to me whether I cost €5m or €150m or €200m. I just need to make sure that I do my own thing.

Look, I know my Chelsea move hasn't worked out how anybody would have wanted and I've made mistakes, but it's not as simple as me just not playing football or picking up a wage.

There can be very cheap players that play very well, and maybe, expensive players, they don't do so well.

I know the Cubs don't typically do six- or seven-year deals, but I think there are obviously times when there should be exceptions. I think I've done pretty well here.

Michael Strahan should get the amount of money that anybody else in the league is getting. I don't care if it is a quarterback, wide receiver, defensive lineman, linebacker. He should make the kind of money Brett Favre, Marshall Faulk make, because he's that type of player.

I would have been happy to play in Holland for a big club, but I can see the point of selling me to an English club. It's very simple: Dutch clubs are not going to spend £16m on a player like me.

The City project is much more than about signing a single player with a strong name, that would eventually cost a lot more.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

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

If you are not playing a player, any player, for two, three, four games, then you don't have to give a reason for that. But if it gets to eight or nine games, then you have to explain the situation. What's going on?

It's been humbling to have multiple teams interested in me and have people talking about my free agency and what I should do.

I think Inter have been very clear: if a good offer comes in, they have to let me go. They don't want to lose me, but there is a chance they will let me go.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

People do focus on the transfer fee, but that's football.

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn't sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.

Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?