Club Finances Quotes

We know the English market is quite high and I think that sometimes puts clubs off. I think there is a lot of hype around the Premier League.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

I think it's very tough to manage a club like United.

Arsenal do not have money to spend, so they are gambling on young players. Arsenal are obliged to sell their best players and bet on youth - but what counts is having a team, great players, and a solid squad to win titles.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

If the club is doing good, the club is getting income, then the club can share it with the players. But when the situation is not going according to plan, you have to look at the financial bit and see what you can change.

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.

You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.

I would still be at Milan if it weren't for their financial problems.

When I think about a mid-table club like Everton spending £150 million during the summer, I am lost for words.

The trouble with the transfer window is it creates a window where transfers have to be done

Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.

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

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

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

LFC is not servicing debt other than stadium debt.

This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.

Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.

I don't want to spend money the club doesn't have; I don't want to hold a player that doesn't want to stay.

The only thing Chelsea and Manchester City have in common is the fact that both clubs have a lot of money.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.