Sam Allardyce Quotes

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Sam Allardyce

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 19, 1954

I've always thought Everton was a great club.

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When will the first manager manage at a professional level having learned his trade on 'FIFA 16,' '17,' or '18?' I've watched my grandson on it, I've watched him buy players and sell them to get to the top of the league and it's teaching him how to manage. The knowledge base that they build up would be very interesting down the line.

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Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.

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The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn't good enough and I would say the same - I knew it wasn't good enough for Everton - but I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.

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It is about trying to entertain and win, that is the ultimate, but you have to keep winning first to change the things that need to change.

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If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.

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When does every fan like the manager?

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No matter what people say outside of football, we don't work for money, we work for the love of the game and the money is something that follows.

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Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

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Arsene has most of the media in his pocket now and is almost - almost - affecting the officials so that you can't tackle an Arsenal player. That's something he's very clever at working on and it's almost working in his favour, you can see that.

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You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.

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Most young talented players I worked with over many, many years who I've met later have said, 'Oh, I wish I'd listened to you.' When you meet them later in life they regret not taking the opportunity with the talent they had.

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There's only a certain amount of times you can tell somebody what they should or shouldn't be doing. If they don't want to take it on board there's little you can do.

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It's never just about talent, it's about a lot more than that.

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I want my team to win.

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My time at Bolton was fantastic. I didn't want to go. It's a fantastic stadium with fantastic fans, but I want to disappoint them.

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Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.

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Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.

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It's always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it's the Europa League or Champions League.

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Busquets is a sitting midfield player who breaks up play, intercepts, passes it very quickly and is intelligent. That's what he is. He's not much more than that, but he gets a lot of praise for it. Whereas Eric Dier does a similar job, but sometimes gets loads of criticism for it.

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