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I couldn't believe Wolves let Matt Doherty go. For the price Wolves let him go for, I didn't get that one at all.
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There are not many players about who can go up front and be a target man, be strong, put his body in the way, score goals and then in the game, he can drop off and hit a 30-yard ball through the eye of a needle and knit play together.
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It's alright people saying they get £100,000-a-week, they get paid well or whatever, but they want to play football.
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Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, unbelievable centre-forwards - but you could not say to them: 'For the next three weeks I want you to play No 10 and thread the ball through the eye of a needle.'
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You do not want to be playing good teams and always let them have 70 per cent of the ball, and expect it to work every time. That does not happen often.
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Agents in this day and age, they're not just agents. They're a parent, they're a best friend, they're a financial advisor, they book holidays, they go away with each other.
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When you play Leeds, you need players who are quick and who are capable of beating opponents as they like to set up one-v-one.
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Divock Origi isn't going to win Liverpool leagues, no disrespect. If he was better than Mohamed Salah or Roberto Firmino, he'd be playing every week.
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There is one thing that will never change in football. The centre forward is only as good as the people that are giving him the ball, and the people that are giving him the ball are only as good as the centre forward they are giving it to.
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If you aren't going to have a lot of the ball, you've got to play when you've got the ball, otherwise you end up giving it straight back and we start all over again.
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