Clubs Quote by Michael Owen

Playing against your club team-mate for an international match, or vice versa, is a rather strange situation to find yourself in.

— Marcel Desailly

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…

— Ed Woodward

Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.

— Peter Schmeichel

Every time I take my teams abroad, the players always behave.

— Tony Pulis

Players have to want to stay and play for the club.

— Ralf Rangnick

You don't get called up to the national team because you tell good jokes, you are funny, you are handsome or because you are…

— Mario Kempes

When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.

— Didier Deschamps

I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with…

— Toni Kroos

English players are probably scared to come abroad. They are in a comfort zone in England: that's where we grew up; that's where we…

— Ashley Cole

It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.

— Manuel Neuer

Big teams need a core of players who have their roots at their clubs, who grow with their clubs and who embody the culture.…

— Philipp Lahm

Players sometimes need to feel important and loved by the club.

— Alexis Sanchez