Sam Allardyce Quotes

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Sam Allardyce

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 19, 1954

As the game changes you have to change with it.

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Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

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You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

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I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.

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I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else.

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A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

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Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.

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The problem for me is we are denying British coaches positions in all divisions now, particularly in the top division and the Championship. We need to do something about that. As a country, as the FA, as the Premier League, we need to protect the position of our own highly qualified coaches who are not even getting an interview now.

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There is a lot of pressure at first when you first take over a club that's struggling but you want to go and do your best for yourself, your family and the club that employ you.

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People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.

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My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.

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It's not a very secure industry but it's one we all love and enjoy doing.

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Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

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Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

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I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

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I think that the problem for any player you want to select for England, not just in isolation, is that it'll be a concern if that player doesn't play for his team.

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Now astronomical wages are making it very difficult to take somebody who might not even have a transfer fee attached to them, because of the net value that they want and the net value that they're worth.

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Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.

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The England team shouldn't be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you've got a Premier League player playing in the Championship.

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I am very shocked and disappointed to be leaving Blackburn Rovers. I am extremely proud to have managed this club and I enjoyed a fantastic relationship with the players, my staff and the supporters during my time in charge.

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