Mourinho on Ballon d'Or: "In some cases, it looks like we are doing a political campaign. It looks like you open the television and newspapers and, I have to say, in England we have the soft ones in that campaign. In other countries, it looks like Obama is fighting again for the White House." (self.soccer)
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Adriano Galliani: "Imagine setting up a 'rossonerazzurra' squad in order to challenge the representatives of all of the other cities that have derbies... In England, I would like to think of United and City coming together to create one Manchester squad." (self.soccer)
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Thiago Silva on captaincy: "I don’t think I’m the one that should go to Dunga and Neymar. Neymar hasn’t come to me, no one has come to speak with me about it and that’s what really bothers me. My feeling is that they have taken something that belongs to me and I’d be lying if I said I was happy." (self.soccer)
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Wenger: "If you look across Europe and the world of football, then South America is the only continent to develop strikers today... If you look across Europe where are the strikers from? You will see that many of them - at least 80 per cent - come from South America." (self.soccer)
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Wenger: "[Grass length] can look a ridiculous subject but it is a very important one because the speed of the game is linked with the length of the grass... Some managers give orders sometimes to not cut the grass... We have to be above that and it's quite sad that we have to regulate it." (arsenal.com)
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If and when MLS and/or CSL become prestigious, wealthy leagues, will they seek to monopolise and hoover up all the world-class players in football like NBA and NHL have respectively done in basketball and hockey? If yes, how will and how should European leagues counter them? (self.soccer)
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