Stadium Expansion Quotes

City showed me their ambition to be one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I was happy to join.

We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.

The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new, and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

Let's build women's football from the bottom before we get to the top; it's not about building from the top to get to the bottom. We can talk about the Etihad and Man United's ground, the Theatre of Dreams, in a few years' time. Let's fill the Academy Stadiums, the Kingsmeadows, first of all.

In Spain, they're doing something right because the attendances keep creeping up, and teams are getting the opportunity to play at the men's stadiums.

I have spent four wonderful years with Manchester City. They have grown a lot over the years.

It looks like things are changing in north London. Tottenham have gone down a road they've never been down before. They've kept their best players and pushed young English ones through. They've started to match Arsenal - who were light years ahead - by building a new stadium.

When I joined Lille, they had a new stadium at Marseille. It was the same, so I know how important it is to clubs when they move home.

Arsenal remains a big club, but the building of Emirates Stadium changed a lot of things.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

I want to help Leeds United return to the level our history and fans deserve. When I came to the club, I gave myself three years to deliver that and my vision remains the same: return the club to its rightful place in the Premier League and make our fans, players and staff proud of their football team.

What are the targets at Arsenal? Are they to be a successful business or a successful team?

There are no doubts in the value of Juventus. Many things, such as the new stadium, have strengthened the club.

Everton is a really ambitious club and that is what I want.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.