Football Recruitment Quotes

People are moving to Florida all the time, lots of times because the economy got tough in the North and they moved south to find jobs. Everybody who comes has two kids - and one of them is usually a football player.

I played a trial game for Reading against Brentford. Then the coach told me that they couldn't afford to take me on. So I went to see Brentford. I couldn't believe it when they signed me - they were in the league above Reading.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

In Holland you go into amateur teams, come up through the ranks and are generally spotted for senior or professional football. At 16, I had made it into a men's amateur team, and was picked up professionally from there.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

Central Michigan was the one FBS team that recruited me hard.

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and maybe even to play for other clubs. We hope this will be well received by everybody and enhance good relations between Malaysia and Bosnia.

I am honoured by Juve's interest in my services.

I got scouted for Tottenham and was there for three to four weeks before a phone call from Arsenal came. The first session they wanted to sign me so, happy days, I didn't look back. I'm an Arsenal fan, everyone in my family is Arsenal, so it wasn't a hard decision.

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

You're looking at a guy who grew up in the state of Alabama, and my dream was to play there.

The fact is that the coach wanted to recruit a new striker, and with Aubameyang's signing at Arsenal, there were three top strikers, and that's why I decided to leave.

I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

I'd gone to watch Wortley play in their home tournament but they didn't have enough players so I played for them. I got scouted by a guy called Sonny Sweeney and went to Leeds City Boys.

The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.

In football, you can't sadly just go looking for a club but have to see what comes.

We're Man United, of course, we're going to be interested in the best players in the world, I'd be pretty amazed if we weren't.

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.

Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.