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THE MONEY MEN

Kenny Dalglish calls
his goals tap-ins until
we come to the end
of the season and
we’re talking money.

Bob Paisley



He’s a money-grabbing cockroach.
I own two pot-bellied pigs and
they don’t yelp as much as him.

Vinnie Jones after being sent off in February 1996
for fouling Ruud Gullit. He alleged Gullit ‘dived’

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Maradona was the highest-
paid handballer in history.

Con Houlihan

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No wonder he met me at the
airport; the taxi fare would have
tipped the club into bankruptcy.

Niall Quinn on being picked up personally
by Fulham’s manager Malcolm Macdonald
when he first signed for that club



 

Half a million for
Remi Moses? You
could get the original
Moses for that, and
the tablets as well.

Tommy Docherty

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I get on a train and sit in second class
and people think, ‘Tight bastard,
all the money he’s got and he sits
in second class.’ So I think, ‘Fuck
them’ and I go to first class. And
then they say, ‘Look at that flash
fucking bastard in first class!’

Paul Gascoigne

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They offered me a handshake
of £10,000 to settle amicably. I
told them they would have to be
a lot more amicable than that.

Tommy Docherty after being released
from Preston Football Club in 1981



My problem with Paul McGrath
was whether to give him appearance
money or disappearance money.

Ron Atkinson

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The Sheffield United Board
have been honest with me.
When I came here they said
there would be no money and
they’ve kept their promise.

Dave Bassett



Premier League football is a multi-
million pound industry with the
aroma of a blocked toilet and the
principles of a knocking shop.

Michael Parkinson

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Tony Cascarino was the biggest
waste of money since Madonna’s
father bought her a pair of pyjamas.

Gordon McLaren