Dele Alli Quotes

That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

Arsene Wenger gives youngsters opportunities, and if he thinks that you're good enough, he'll play you.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

Fulham trust young players.

Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

I think it's pretty unique to see a coach adjust to the talent he has and maximize the abilities of players he has and help them keep growing.

I had some very good players and some wonderful young players hitting the scene. Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Michael Owen - we had something tangible to work with and move forward.

Louis van Gaal trusted me; I played a lot of games.

There was no better manager at developing young players than Sir Alex. He knew just when to bring them in and take them out, and he believed in Paul Pogba. For once, in Paul's case, it did not work out. The timing was wrong, and the difference between expectation on the player's side and the manager's idea of his development did not match up.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

I want players to think: 'OK, this has happened now, what is next for me?' That's a very big target because what are academies about nowadays? Is it really just to find one or two players? But what happened to the others? I'm very, very interested in that.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

I have faith in the players, who have paid me back on the pitch. I have brought in young players because they have a lot of potential. I'm the only one who decides, and I take decisions based on sporting reasons.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.