Peter Kenyon Quotations

I would echo that we are in serious negotiations. Clearly he is an outstanding and big player so I think we are in good, serious negotiations with him and would echo what he said. We are at a good stage and I am delighted as to where we are.

If we had something to say we would have said it.

From a commercial viewpoint, I'm not concerned. We're all human and we all like to be liked.

Our sponsorship program, which is really an important factor of that (record revenue), is critical to us going forward,

With the talent that's on the pitch for both teams, it's going to be tremendous football. That's what the Champions League is all about. Bringing the best teams together.

We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch.

The Premier League is a great product, one of the best in the world, and gets fantastic exposure on TV, but we can't become complacent,

The quality of our youth development was poor. United were the best. Arsenal became very successful. We couldn't afford to ignore it. We decided to go for it in our own inimitable style. There's an element of playing catch-up, and we have elbowed a few. We are doing what they have been doing forever. There is just another club breaking up that cartel.

We would like him to stay longer that that.

We have been dragged into this on the basis that the player wants to come to us.

With continued success on the field and the resulting growth stemming from that of our fan base, memberships and revenues, we are confident of achieving our targets.

We spent 151 million pounds, of which 141 has been spent on capital expenditure, primarily in the playing squad.

They are a good side but we are a great side too. That's what Champions League is all about.

It must be within the brains of all of us to find a solution.

It's a myth to suggest it's just a monetary issue,

It was a pretty grueling course. It was long as far as the courses we've been racing go at 25 miles total for three laps. Plus, there was a lot of steep climbing,

This is a unique, ground-breaking relationship that not only demonstrates our commitment to the development of U.S. soccer but will also help Chelsea work towards its aim of becoming the most popular European club in the U.S., one of our key target markets.

If you leave the investment aside, ... it will be a huge disappointment if we don't win anything. If you include the investment, however, it will be a failure if we don't win something. That's the way the manager will see it and the way we see it, because we're expected to win things; that's what we do.

In the short and medium term... the next TV deal is critically important,

Chelsea is a staunch supporter of London as a city, the 2012 Olympics and also wants to continue to develop its football relations with China. These ideas could help promote and give benefit to Chinese football.

I am 100 percent happy with him. It is just fabrication.

These figures reflect the continuing restructuring of the business which we began in 2003-4.

I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of another incident like this jet shoot down. And obviously both NATO and the U.S. are pressing their ally Turkey to urgently deescalate the situation.

Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.

He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.

And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.

We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we got, what's possible and who cares?"

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.