Football Economics 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.

The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.

In Spain, players have an official price tag, just like shirts hanging in a shop do.

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.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

When a club pays money it's because it's his value in the market.

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.

I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.

The great thing about the NFL is that you get into it for love, and you realise it is a fabulous business.

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

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

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

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.