Ed Woodward Quotes

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

We have to talk about the players we have.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

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

I always say that Madrid must have the best players, as this is the best club in the world. But it is not for me to say which players should be signed.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

Lou Gorman gave my number to a non-roster player the year after I left.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

Every team in the league is always looking to upgrade its talent.

I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

Arsenal is a great club - the facilities are wonderful - but I feel it is a club that takes big care before signing a player, notably considering human values.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.