Jack Wilshere Quotes

It is not always possible, but the best plan is always to keep hold of your best players.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

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

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.

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.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

If you excel, there will always be teams interested in signing the biggest players.

Obviously, it's important for any team that wants to be really successful to try to have the best players that they possibly can in all positions, and I think Alisson is definitely one of the best in the world in his position.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

We have to talk about the players we have.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

You have to build your core nucleus of your team through your draft. What that does is you basically introduce them to your culture and your environment. Then, as guys begin to perform and play to that level, then you say, 'You know what? You guys deserve an extension, so here it is.'

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.