Quotes About Opportunity

You can only advise young players to make the step to Liverpool.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

Ajax always bring through young players from their academy - we can't pay €20m for a player, so we make sure we develop those players and give them the opportunity to play.

Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.

I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.

Fulham trust young players.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

I am dreaming that Italy can return to having lots of important talent. We need to grow our young players.

When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

You have to be careful when you time a move to one of the biggest clubs. Occasionally, these young players do not realise what a good thing they are on to when they know that they will be playing every week.

I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I'm very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on a few times, and now I'm able to assist the team, assist the young players coming through, and help the guys who do have the ambition to play more for Wales.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

The Premier League is not easy for young players because it is very hard, very tough. Most of the players are very tall.

If young players are capable of playing 90 minutes every week at European clubs why prevent them from doing that?

The young players are only thinking about what they can win and that can sometimes be an advantage for you.

I know myself that I am a manager who really gives young players a chance when they deserve it.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

I think most young players who take off from the start are usually put in a situation where they are surrounded by good, veteran players.

I enjoy seeing young players given the opportunity and then perform and go on to have fulfilling careers.

The advice I would give to young players is always give St Mirren an opportunity.

I know English football people say you have to look out for young players, that maybe they can play 15 or 20 games but not more. They are afraid. I am not afraid to put young players in. I am not afraid but maybe they are.

It is all about the talents of the young players. If they have the talent you have to give an opportunity. If they don't have the talent then, OK, you have to look elsewhere.