Sam Allardyce Quotes

In the face of a big offer, no player is not for sale.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

£25million or £30m or £20m - whether you are expensive or not, players are just players.

When a club pays money it's because it's his value in the market.

I can no longer understand what the parameters are for valuing a player. It's all too random and in the hands of whoever has more money.

It doesn't matter if they buy me for, I don't know, £38 million or £40m - I am not guaranteed to play the games.

In Spain, players have an official price tag, just like shirts hanging in a shop do.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I guess when you get paid over 100 million dollars by one team, it's kind of easy to point the finger at other guys and try to hate on them for trying to get another contract.

To be realistic, the big Dutch clubs cannot afford me. That's not because of my wages; it's the transfer fee.

Some players have got their price, but, to be honest, that's not the way I look at the game.

Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

I have become a bargain - where do you find a player who scores 28 goals in Serie A and costs €28m? Nowhere, right?

The main problem with English players has always been the price.

Footballers' 'lack of loyalty,' for instance, is not an indication of players' moral delinquency. Instead, the capacity to move on quickly without forming lasting attachments is a skill that the contemporary capitalist world inculcates and relies upon.

Nowadays, it's hard to know if a player really deserves the money spent on him, because transfer values are high.

I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.

You realize it's a business and that teams are going to do what's best for them. That's how it is. That's what we sign up for as a Major League Baseball player.

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.