The first Dutch master

“I read in the paper this team are watching this player, this player, this player. Well, they’re idiots because those players are so different, how can you look at three different players in the same position?

“There are too many different things in football. People who are buying, people who are selling or people accepting to go one place or another — it’s not like that. It’s [about] what the team needs.

“It’s absurd.”