David Gill Quotes

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

It is always difficult to sign players even if you are a big club.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

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.

The buying power of clubs is very different. You can't sign players if you don't have money, and if there is no money, that's it. As a player, there's nothing you can do.

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

There are maybe four or five teams who will pay whatever they need to pay to get the player. They are huge sums, but that is the world we now live in - when one of those four or five teams want a player, then they usually get them.

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

It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

Transfer fees don't show which player is better. It's only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

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

There's always a possibility that players can come and go when the market opens.

When a club has €200m left on its transfer budget in the final days of the transfer period, why shouldn't they make a higher bid when their initial €70m bid has been rejected?

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

When I told Arsene Wenger I was leaving, he said to me, 'I have £25m to spend on a few players.' My answer was, 'Obviously, Mr. Wenger, you are not shopping in Harrods. That will only buy you one good player.' Now I have been proved right.

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

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

Malaga were the club that bid the hardest for me, and they were the first, too. When Villarreal told me that they wanted to sell me, I chose them.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

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.

The Premier League has the power to spend more money on players than the Bundesliga. This is very, very important for players.

We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.

It's always a pleasure to know clubs like Chelsea, with their ambitious owner, are interested in you.

I thought always Manchester United can buy every player because they have a lot of power.