112 Quotes by Sven-Goran Eriksson

Ranieri won the Premier League and no one would've expected that.

Sir Alex Ferguson must be very high up on the list of greatest managers ever. Then there is Fabio Capello, and people forget how much Giovanni Trapattoni achieved at Inter and especially Juventus.

David Beckham deserves all the respect you can give to him.

Shanghai is a beautiful city, with theatres, shopping malls and restaurants that can rival anything in London.

My role as Manchester City manager was different to being manager of clubs in other countries. You share responsibility more in other European countries. You have the last word, though, in who to buy and who plays and things like that.

Maybe I trust people too much.

I think if you want be a big team and stay a big team, it costs money. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't matter.

Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.

Without big money you can't stay at the top. Maybe you can reach it for one year but you can't if you don't have money to buy important players.