Reserve Team Quotes

People think I don't have experience in the second division, but we were promoted with Tenerife and Extremadura, and I was the coach of the reserve team with Real Madrid in the second division. I know what it means to go from this level to another level. I realise how difficult it is.

I signed as an 11-year-old for Everton. I broke into the Under-18s at the age of 14, then the reserves at 15, then I was in the first-team squad at 16.

There is no B-Team at Bayern Munich.

I wasn't getting a lot of game-time at Liverpool, you guys could see that. I was just playing cup games and stuff like that.

If you're happy being at a big club but playing reserve team football, I never really understand that.

I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn't in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.

When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

If you want to stay at Manchester United and win trophies and be successful, then you have to work through the reserve games, and that is what I am doing.

I wouldn't go to a club just to stay on the subs' bench.

I played United's reserves for a few years and I wanted to take that next step, which was a loan move.