Antonio Conte Quotes

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

It is always difficult to sign players even if you are a big club.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

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

I always say that Madrid must have the best players, as this is the best club in the world. But it is not for me to say which players should be signed.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

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

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

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

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

There's always a possibility that players can come and go when the market opens.

A player's mind, body and soul have to be right to get the best out of them, and if a player no longer wants to be at a club then the club should try and get the best deal they can and let the player move on.

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

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.

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.

You have expectations always when you buy players. Mostly, you have positive expectations.

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.

The decisions related to recruitment are all taken by football experts. My involvement is signing off the money.

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

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.

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

You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.