A Quote by Mauricio Pochettino

Managers and players at different clubs, it's difficult to compare.

Mauricio Pochettino

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Clubs Compare Different Difficult Managers Players

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Mauricio Pochettino
Argentinian - Athlete
Born: March 2, 1972

I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.

Red Schoendienst

It's very difficult and unfair probably to compare players from different eras, because they were able to reach excellence in their time and they have to be rewarded for that.

Gianfranco Zola

Liverpool has always had speculation about managers, players, players coming, players going and it's the same as managers. That's part of being part of a big club, you always have that type of thing.

Jamie Carragher

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

Kolo Toure

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

Alan Shearer

Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

Michael Owen

There are so many clubs with great squads, good managers, good financial situations that allows them to sign good players.

Juan Mata

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

Petr Cech

Some players are bought by other clubs with an eye to them developing into something special in a few years' time. Whereas there's a bit more pressure on some of the other clubs to bring in players who are going to be hitting the ground running and top players verging on world class almost immediately.

Ed Woodward

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Jose Mourinho

Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.

Dave McPherson

To compare players at different stages in their career shouldn't happen.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

I stay somewhere for a couple of years and then think, 'What next?' I find it easier to challenge myself by going to different clubs, environments, and playing with different players.

Lucy Bronze

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

Manuel Pellegrini

For clubs, free movement plays a big role in transfers and players' contracts. Players from the E.U. can sign for U.K. clubs without needing a visa or special work permit, making it quicker and easier to secure top talent from across Europe to come and play in our leagues.