Granit Xhaka Quotes

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.

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

Arsenal are a historic club. Arsene Wenger has been here for such a long time, and there is a real level of stability at the club. He knows what he wants to achieve in the coming years. I liked the way he spoke about football and what he thinks of me.

At a massive club like Liverpool, people will come and go. It is our job to keep the wheels moving and momentum going.

Clubs will lose great players, and great players will come in.

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.

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.

It is very difficult to find a player who stays at the same club for the whole of their career.

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

It's never a good sign when many players leave the club or when you have many coaching changes, because it brings a lot of distraction to the team and the club.

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

I don't want to spend money the club doesn't have; I don't want to hold a player that doesn't want to stay.

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

Liverpool will always buy good players, even if they already have good players. That's normal. I think it has to be normal for a club like Liverpool because that means you're a big club.

Ajax have a tradition of good football and play 4-3-3, which suits me. They also spend lots of money on youth players with the aim of putting them in the first team.

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

It is easy to understand when Everton performed better it was when they had stability.

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.

If someone like Cristiano arrives at the club, then inevitably you will improve.

Italian sides will find it hard to attract the world's top players while there is a salary cap.

It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.

PSG - I think they had a money problem and they couldn't buy players. This is the main reason I didn't go there.

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.

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.