Quinn Speaks Out!
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:41 am
Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has accused his Premier League counterparts of damaging football's economy with the big prices they are splashing out on average players.
Quinn specifically singled out the actions of Portsmouth and West Ham and believes that the only people benefiting from the price inflations are the players' agents.
"There's six or seven new owners who are spending money but are they getting the type of player that the top four want? I don't think so," Quinn told the Daily Mail.
"If I was going to spend a fortune breaking the bank, I would be going after the players Liverpool or Man United want to sign.
"But in the middle people are fighting each other and raising the prices for the same players. You can see it with West Ham and Portsmouth. The agents are having an absolute beano. It's like a property market, where estate agents own half the property or, in West Ham's case, it looks like all the property."
Quinn has allowed Black Cats manager Roy Keane to get on with rebuilding the squad at the Stadium of Light over the summer as they prepare for life back in the top flight.
Keane's summer spending could eventually cost £30million with Quinn not interfering with who the boss wants to bring in to the side.
"What horrifies me is people who've made money out of property or biscuit tins telling a class act who's managing their club who they should be signing," he continued.
"That's for the birds, but it happens in a lot of cases. I see players signing and chairmen standing there with the jersey and their arms around the player and I say, 'Oh my God, what are they doing?' It's their call, they may like that and may be in it for that, but it's not right.
"If I start telling Roy Keane who to sign I'm going against my own doctrine. Football is football, administration is administration.
"I'm 100 per cent behind Roy on this. People are being pressurised into signing players from videos and giving agents lots of money. We won't do that. We have to keep our heads when this is going on."
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Quinn specifically singled out the actions of Portsmouth and West Ham and believes that the only people benefiting from the price inflations are the players' agents.
"There's six or seven new owners who are spending money but are they getting the type of player that the top four want? I don't think so," Quinn told the Daily Mail.
"If I was going to spend a fortune breaking the bank, I would be going after the players Liverpool or Man United want to sign.
"But in the middle people are fighting each other and raising the prices for the same players. You can see it with West Ham and Portsmouth. The agents are having an absolute beano. It's like a property market, where estate agents own half the property or, in West Ham's case, it looks like all the property."
Quinn has allowed Black Cats manager Roy Keane to get on with rebuilding the squad at the Stadium of Light over the summer as they prepare for life back in the top flight.
Keane's summer spending could eventually cost £30million with Quinn not interfering with who the boss wants to bring in to the side.
"What horrifies me is people who've made money out of property or biscuit tins telling a class act who's managing their club who they should be signing," he continued.
"That's for the birds, but it happens in a lot of cases. I see players signing and chairmen standing there with the jersey and their arms around the player and I say, 'Oh my God, what are they doing?' It's their call, they may like that and may be in it for that, but it's not right.
"If I start telling Roy Keane who to sign I'm going against my own doctrine. Football is football, administration is administration.
"I'm 100 per cent behind Roy on this. People are being pressurised into signing players from videos and giving agents lots of money. We won't do that. We have to keep our heads when this is going on."
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