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When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.
“When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.”
— Ed Woodward · Academy
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“When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.”
“We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.”
“I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.”
“The scouts are watching matches and we have a huge amount of data we purchase and a pyramid approach in terms of delivering that information to our chief scout and his team who are assessing it.”
“We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.”
“We have to do everything that we possibly can to get back to winning the Premier League. We are not successful until we do. Second is not success, we have to win the Premier League.”
“The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.”
“I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.”
“I had to be resilient playing non-League because I was 17 playing against men. I always knew how to beat someone and how to use my body. And that's one thing academy players don't really learn. Because in the academy you're playing against people your age. I was always playing against men.”
“For a true artist, life is a real academy. I am always both a student and a teacher. I have been teaching art to children since the age of eight. Now I am a co-founder of Akiane Arts School at Foreli Academy, where we are now enrolling students.”
“Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.'”