Sam Allardyce Quotes

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

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

Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.

The team evolves over time, and players need replacing.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

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

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

Normally, the coach does not like to make changes that are not necessary - because a team has to find itself.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

A coach needs time to get to know the players, the environment, the fans and the culture of the club. You can't solve everything in one or two months.

When you have a player like Tyus Jones, instantly chemistry is made.

Any new coach takes about six months to adjust to the system, and players also need time to understand his methods.

There are teams spending a lot of money and buying top players from all over the world but it is not about money - it is about your team-mates.

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

When you change 10 out of 22 outfield players, you need time and hard work.

You obviously never know when you have a lot of changes to a team, but the new guys have come in here and they look great. They work hard. But the league is so competitive now so it's hard to predict.

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

When you bring a lot of new players in, that is the hardest thing, getting everyone playing together.

We have to talk about the players we have.

It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.

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