Bruce Buck Quotes

"[Buck reveals the club was sinking in a quagmire of debt.] I personally was surprised, ... They had a £75m Eurobond outstanding and it was perfectly clear to the markets that they might have trouble making the July payment. [The then chief executive] Trevor Birch had been in discussions for some time about restructuring that bond. The financial community as opposed to the football community knew there were some real issues."

"If Jose's not working, he wants to be with his family. Roman isn't very big on going to black tie dinners and things. He tends to hang around with people he's known since his twenties, and they tend to be his Russian friends."

"The past three weeks, teams haven't thrown the ball his way."

"Montel has great hands, great speed, good height, excellent jumping ability -- all the qualities you look for. He does a great job of going to the ball."

"(Worthy) is an athlete. We just have to find a place for him on the field."

"We're very disappointed that Arsenal chose to pursue this course of action,"

"What Montel allows us to do is to control the secondary so you can do more up front,"

"I'm sure there'll be conversations about the tapping-up rule and let's see what develops. The rules could certainly be tweaked in this area."

"Having said that, Roman has a reasonably long-term view ? and the business plan that was put together was a five-year business plan. We are doing a lot of things to make the club more efficient and towards profit-making in five years' time."