Roberto Carlos Quotes

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.

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.

Players can't really control where they go, can't control what a coach thinks of them or if a club wants to sell them.

Carlo Ancelotti wanted me in Madrid and had bet on me.

It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.

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.

Who wants to lose or sell a player? Nobody does.

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.

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

You don't see players at United complaining to their manager when they are taken off.

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.

Real Madrid are always after the best talent.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

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

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

It would be great to have more Spanish players at Manchester United.

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.

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

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they're from, what their roots are.

There are certain guys you just take from different teams that you watch.