Marco Silva Quotes

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.

But I think that if a club like Barcelona sign a player, it is because he has the right qualities.

I had long conversations with Wenger before I joined Real, and that's how I got to know about Arsenal and the way that they like to sign talented players who can move the ball well.

We're always able to look at a position and have our view in terms of the list of targets that would suit Manchester United and augment our team.

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

Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

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

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.

My view is that the signing of players should be a simple process. The chief scout identifies them, the manager decides who he wants, and the chief executive is dispatched to do the deal. It really is as simple as that.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

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.

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

The main factor in joining Arsenal was meeting with Arsene Wenger and to hear what his plans were for me.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

I kept an eye on Chelsea's fortunes after they first tried to sign 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.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

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

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.

It is difficult to give time to develop projects in football. You buy the club, and you want the title after three months.

Add a good player to our team? Absolutely.

We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.

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