Soccer Scouting Quotes

David Rouse, a goalkeeping scout for Manchester City, came over for maybe a week in October. He was an awesome guy. He showed me what kind of club they were like. We talked about Manchester City. He watched me and watched a game.

I don't know how you get in the England squad without getting in the Arsenal team.

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

I don't understand what's going on behind the scenes fully, but Chelsea's a massive club, and I understand why chances don't come so often.

I believe my chances of making the World Cup squad will improve if I join City. My exposure would be better because Brazil is biased towards the Ukrainian league.

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.

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.

I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That's what he did with me when I was 15.

When you get to 16 at Barcelona, it's the age that you sign your main contract. I was about to sign that, but we knew there were a lot of other options because you always get them from other teams at that time. I didn't have the option to come to Arsenal until I was right about to sign with Barcelona.

I have no idea if anyone is watching me from the Brazil national team, but the best way to have a chance is to do well for Liverpool.

I have friends who ended up playing professionally in the Middle East and Europe.

I am very happy because signing for a Premier League team is a dream.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

I went to Borussia Dortmund on trial with a bag and some clothes, not knowing what my next move was going to be.

I hope that everyone tries to help to increase the level of the MLS and also that American players like Pulisic are here and not in Europe. That should be the goal for America. I just try to help as much as I can.