Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

We spent a lot of money on some players.

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.

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.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.

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

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.

The NFL does a great job of taking care of the players.

The quality of our academy system is very high, as good as anything in the world. Around the country, lots of people in youth development are keen to get together and find a solution to that 17-to-21 age bracket and how we get those players playing.

We want to bring our own players through. That is what people like about Ajax.

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

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don't need it.

We've got to do better at taking care of players and making sure the fans get the best of the players when they're showcasing their abilities.

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

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.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

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.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

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

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.