Clean house Quote by Paul Pierce

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

— Sparky Anderson

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

— Harry Kane

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.

— Emre Can

It's the players. They make a manager look good.

— Alex Cora

It's not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have…

— Gianluca Vialli

Managers can sometimes hold players back for their own benefit.

— Glenn Murray

I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.

— Sam Allardyce

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad…

— Joe Torre

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

— Chris Mullin

Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.

— Nigel Pearson

Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.

— Chris Wilder

It's only natural that players will want to show a new manager what he can do.

— Simon Mignolet