Quotations

«When you miss so many strong players it is good that you score two goals on an away game.»

«I have no desire to leave,»

«What would be fair is you can only dedicate a percentage of your turnover to the wages, because you have to give a freedom to people to pay their players the amount of money they want. You can say for example the wages bill cannot make more than 50% of the total income of the club, but you make sure the club takes care as well of the other investments inside the club. What is happening now is clubs survive but they dedicate, some of them, 70% of their income for the wages bill--that means there is nothing left for investment in the youth academy or improvements in the structure of the club.»

«I planned to bring him on at some stage but I had to do it early,»

«We became very dangerous and he scored a great goal and after he kept the game under control and then scored a late second goal.»

«He'd only had one short session with the team in 37 days and that's not a lot. I didn't expect him to be on the pitch after 15 minutes and neither did he,»

«You have to respect what he has done and who he has beaten,»

«Of course we are scared we could lose him,»

«He doesn't owe me anything. He fits into the way we want to play and his assists tell you more about the player he is. He has provided goals as well scored them and I can't think of anybody else like that. The record is out of the way now and it is a huge achievement.»

«There is no urgency. He finishes in 2007 and does not have to talk in October 2005.»