David Gill Quotes

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

You don't sign a player for the sake of it.

In Italy... people think that they can win matches with only systems. I say this is impossible because, otherwise, there wouldn't be players that cost 100 million euros and others who cost 1 million.

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

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

January is an odd month for everyone because of the transfer market, while it can happen during a season to have a momentary wobble.

Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It's simple.

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.

Carlo Ancelotti wanted me in Madrid and had bet on me.

The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.

If Celtic were to build a team strong enough to regularly compete in the Champions League, I might decide to manage them one day.

When you've got money to spend, it's very easy to buy someone worth £50m rather than say, 'I'm going to play this 20-year-old English player.' It's easier to buy someone when you have the money to do it. But at the same time, if you give somebody an opportunity, you never know. You can only roll the dice and see how they perform.

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.

I got Everton competing at the top end of the league with a midtable budget.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

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.

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.

Sarri is meticulous, passionate about tactics, he likes to make the team play well.

Ask anyone in the game: if you want a player from France or a French player, 99 per cent of the time, you will have to deal with Willie McKay or someone like him. If you want to get the job done, then you need the Willie McKays of this world.

Over a long time, I've honestly had enough of people saying Arsenal's defence is not good enough.

Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.

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

It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.

Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.