Quotes About Football

Honestly, I don't know why we can't transfer the mentality we have in the Champions League to Serie A.

I definitely did not fail at Chelsea. I always had my chance, scored important goals in the first season. At the end I just wanted the transfer, although Jose Mourinho wanted me to stay.

When I went to Gladbach from Basel in 2012, I put a lot of pressure on myself at first, and it was too heavy. I will not put any pressure on myself at Arsenal, even though the transfer fee was high.

When I came to Liverpool, in a €20 million transfer, I was expensive.

I did not transfer from United to City for the controversy.

I've never asked for a transfer anywhere, but I've been constantly moving around. It's frustrating.

The transfer deadline can be a distraction if you allow it to be.

Nowadays, it's hard to know if a player really deserves the money spent on him, because transfer values are high.

My transfer to Fenerbahce has been a kind of salvation.

This is football, things can change very fast. Let's be clear about it though: I will not be used as change to facilitate someone else's transfer.

Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.

Ronaldo leaving would seem to have ended the competition between Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo because people rarely mention one without mentioning the other. A lot of people are interested - me, too - to see how it will affect Real Madrid's football and what they might do in the transfer market.

People do focus on the transfer fee, but that's football.

Making a major contribution to Bayern is more important to me than a transfer abroad. Staying at Bayern is more tempting and more attractive to me.

This is madness - when a single footballer is more expensive than building a hospital or school, the transfer market has lost its marbles.

Honestly, when someone speaks to me about Juventus I try to change the subject immediately. I'm ashamed of the transfer!

I can't speak on transfer value and people's stock and all that. In football things change so quickly.

Everything goes fast in football. You can be transferred tomorrow, as you can be in one or two years.

Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

Football's incomparable to anything else - perhaps only music has that same power to transform society.

Football is a transformation agent, both for good and for bad.

I'd like to thank my former club, Manchester City, for the support throughout my time in the Championship and during my transition to Huddersfield.

I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.

I want to get my MBA. I want to create my own business. When I'm finished with football, I want a seamless transition to life and work and what I've dreamed about doing all my life.