Quotes About Football

It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.

I'm really a normal football manager.

In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

I was a young manager at Everton and had 11 great years there.

I've had five managers, and I've played with all of them.

Guardiola is one of the best managers in the world.

Young English managers don't get enough time, young black managers aren't given enough time, there are a lot of reasons why.

Top managers, like Pochettino, Klopp and Guardiola don't make excuses.

Football is like this. The better the team you play for, the more fans follow you and there are millions of coaches and managers around the world! Some of them understand football one way; some of them have another opinion.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at the same time, an apogee of opprobrium and excellence.

Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.

There is only one club in Manchester.

My first aim is to play well for my club, Manchester City. If I do, I am sure that will come to the attention of the national manager.

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

I feel like, City, because they're this modern global team, in the United States we think they're a really big club. But here in Manchester, it's not a big club.

After Benfica, Manchester is very close to my heart.

I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question.

I really enjoy my life in Manchester, my training, my games, everything.

It's difficult to say no when Manchester City want you and you could play there. That much I have to admit.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

I like Manchester, I love the fans. They are great with me, the club is great with me. But I'm not happy if I don't play, and all the time I don't play.

I am happy to have made the move to Manchester City.

I want to go back to Manchester and win the City fans back.