Marco Silva Quotes

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

We don't have major limits in the transfer market.

You don't sign a player for the sake of it.

When you hear Liverpool want you, you call your agent back in about five seconds.

At Barcelona, there is always talk of signings, but I want to compete with the best.

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.

There is a lot going on with negotiations in the football business, and I appreciate some people think that it's a crazy, absurd amount of money.

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

Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.

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.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.

Malaga were the club that bid the hardest for me, and they were the first, too. When Villarreal told me that they wanted to sell me, I chose them.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

The buying power of clubs is very different. You can't sign players if you don't have money, and if there is no money, that's it. As a player, there's nothing you can do.

I don't have doubts that Everton is a big club.

There are maybe four or five teams who will pay whatever they need to pay to get the player. They are huge sums, but that is the world we now live in - when one of those four or five teams want a player, then they usually get them.

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

We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.

It's always a pleasure to know clubs like Chelsea, with their ambitious owner, are interested in you.

At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the right price.

I kept an eye on Chelsea's fortunes after they first tried to sign me.

I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.

The main problem with English players has always been the price.