Neil Warnock Quotes

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

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

January is an odd month for everyone because of the transfer market, while it can happen during a season to have a momentary wobble.

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

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

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.

You cannot bring in two or three top-class players if you don't have the money. You have to sell.

It's quite confusing and odd when a footballer, instead of playing, is interested in bringing in players who are his friends.

When you have good players in your squad that means other clubs are looking to them as well. For me, it is a normal situation in football.

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.

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

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Liverpool has always had speculation about managers, players, players coming, players going and it's the same as managers. That's part of being part of a big club, you always have that type of thing.

When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on - and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.

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

No, Borussia is not falling apart. It does not matter whichever players will leave. That is what the past has showed. The club has developed and actually improved despite big-name players leaving.

Sometimes you have to manage, and you have to sell two or three players who aren't playing many games.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can't just go and grab every player that you want.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

Every year in the Premier League, every team is improving. Every team is buying new players.

When I was at Liverpool, I asked about Van Dijk when he was at Groningen and then at Celtic. But I was told he wouldn't be for us at the time. Van Dijk could have jumped from Celtic to a Liverpool.