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"Focus on Amrobat, he's always wanted to be here and he's going to be a very good signing."
"In our case, the first and most important was to attract the best possible people in the world to do it."
"The best companies want the best people; they will fight for them and, once hired, the company is looking to get the very best that person has to offer."
"Instead of buying [a player] for 150 million, we should be buying four players who are well scouted up and coming for 40 million pounds."
"If you've got an option of getting Erling Haaland... you should close the door and say, 'He's a great player, let's see who else will buy him,' because that 150 million pounds could buy you four first-team players better than what you've got at the moment."
"Mikel Arteta on Arsenal aiming for the best: 'If we want to be the best team, we are going to need the best talent and the best players.'"
"My most important bit is recruitment, to get the best possible players."
"Identify and acquire the best players before they do."
"Anyone can just get lucky here and there, they can just randomly hit on some guy that they just picked. But that's not repeatable. To have repeatable success, you need to pick the best talent and the best opportunity."
"We will adapt to changing circumstances and pursue the most unique and talented artists in the industry."
"For G2, the whole goal with this roster was to try and get the best player from each position in Europe to make this star-studded European roster."
"Fnatic with this super team, it is Fnatic with the star-studded roster getting the best talent they can possibly get their hands on."
"Some people are better at things than others, and in football, you buy good players to do it."
"Can we get a Griezmann? Can we get a Mendy? Someone of that caliber, is it possible?"
"Can't believe we even hesitate when a player the caliber of Sancho wants to come and is available."
"Netflix has overvalued a lot of their content overpaying to lure top talent and green lighting projects often the pet projects have said top talent that no other studio would touch."
"We need a team of world-class players. Jaden Sancho is world-class, and to me, that is a no-brainer to get."
"He wants the best and most brilliant creatives working for him."
"We didn't just pursue them because they're tremendous talents; we pursued them because they expect to win championships, so do we."
"We have taken an unbelievable opportunity to bring a world-class player to Brentford."
"This is like signing Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon."
"Recruit the best talent like a pro sports team."
"If one wants to succeed, actively recruit the best talent."
"Manchester United cannot afford to miss out on Harland, he's an absolute freak of nature."
"One having competition is very good in terms of wrestling but then also lifting raising people up and raising the profile of people from elsewhere."
"It benefits AEW because they can get some of these guys that they can't get at the moment like Joe Hendry, Shane Taylor, like Dalton Castle."
"Rafinha for me would be an absolute quality signing."
"Anytime you can add players to your roster that you've seen talents and abilities over the years when you've looked at them from an outside looking in and now you get an opportunity to work with them it's awesome."
"We met up with co-founders Anthony Tan and Weiling Tan in Seattle, Washington, where they've set up a new office to grab some of America's top tech talent."
"We wouldn't be able to get a guy at 22 that can do what Stefon Diggs can do."
"Building a roster is all about just getting really talented dudes and then system fit is nice but you kind of hope that you just have coaches that will adjust their system to the talent."
"Take the best player and figure out the rest of the team."
"It's never a mistake to add talent. This girl has got on-camera charisma for miles."
"This is an annoyingly great signing for Spurs."
"Your job will be to identify, attract, and source for qualified candidates for a specific job."
"Even though it's not the player we need... to get a player of that caliber."
"A good young talent to watch for the future, I'm very happy about signing him."
"Whether you are starting a new business or growing one, if you want it to be successful, you need the most talented people on your team."
"Let ZipRecruiter fill all your roles with the right candidates."
"He's a really nice fit, we're gonna find a spot for him."
"Lots of clubs would be interested in signing him."
"You've got to take the best player all the time."
"I want someone who plays in central center midfield who's played there he's a master of that position and is the best that we can get in that position. That's what united should be going for."
"There's no guaranteed way to draft a superstar development player, but there definitely are some ways that can help you or increase your chances."
"That's really how you draft more superstars: you draft the talent."
"It's not always about going for the better talent... it's about going for the player that's going to be on the pitch more."
"He's done a wonderful job in both drafting and free agency."
"He's such a polished overall player, I want to sign him definitely."
"If it's worth it, I'll definitely get behind importing top tier talent."
"We managed to get three of the top 10 players."
"Money goes hand in hand with top talents and top talent wins your games, isn't it?"
"I think he'd be a brilliant signing from a permanent deal."
"I think he's a fantastic player, but Ollie's got this habit of going to buy players in positions he's already got players and neglecting other positions. We've been crying out for a center defensive midfielder for years."
"Let's change the whole system. Let's actually collect much better data on these applicants. Let's have them do very different things, and then we can make the right decision for the most talented people."
"I think he's a great signing, you know. He's a great signing and a bargain, to be honest."
"We should buy a backup striker next year... Bellingham as a replacement for Matic. What a player."
"It's exciting to see Western teams realizing that the talent in the region isn't as dense as it is in Korea and pulling players from here."
"It's a failure if we don't get Jayden Sancho because there isn't a player out there anywhere near the age potential talent or suitability for what we need."
"Signing Harvey Elliott is gonna be massive for the series boys."
"He instantly becomes the best midfield player at their football club."
"I'd love to see that type of quality player coming, especially in the midfield."
"Just get good people... and we got amazing people in there."
"Spurs have bought well and also have one of the best managers in the world."
"Cecil, absolutely brilliant signing. We've covered a key area with a versatile, proven player. Good price too."
"This is the best feeling in career mode, man, when you make a signing and he delivers right away."
"We need to focus on immigration and get more people coming to the country. We need the smartest people in the world to keep wanting to work here."
"Quality of player on a free transfer does not come around often."
"Absolutely and they brought him, Gabrielle. Yeah, he's Brazilian, he's young, he's fast, and he's left-footed. What a good signing."
"It allows clubs to recruit from a higher shelf in terms of quality."
"Why not fourth round? We got the top-rated fullback."
"Lewis Campos is somebody who has a fiercely good track record when it comes to football transfers."
"Mane has turned out to be an absolute steal and has become one of the best players on earth at Anfield."
"With us having Champions League football, I want to sign at least one Greek talent in this rebuild."
"One of the most exciting players I think we signed this summer was Brandon Adi."
"You know what they do? They come to the US because capitalism leaves a lot of people out, but it creates the best. And you want to steal the best, right?"
"Benrahma, a real gem plucked out of nowhere who perfectly sums up the genius of Brentford's transfer strategy."
"Erdegard is such a creative and skillful player to watch, 35 mil absolute steal."
"We've got big holes to fill. This is Dave Ziegler's job. I mean, Dave has got to find those guys."
"Just take the best player, you got good rosters, just take the best guy."
"I think it's a situation of where they just need to collect and get the best player possible."
"If you want quality players, most quality players are being targeted by quality clubs. So it's competition, baby."
"I'm mainly in it for the stats, I need the most qualified person in the world. Bring me a flipping genius, even if they're directly related to me, I kind of don't care."
"Sign upcoming talent that has got some experience that can get better and better and I love this signing."
"Tesla and SpaceX both have their pick of the best engineering talent in the country. They can hire the best and the brightest and innovate at a faster pace than other companies."
"Evil Geniuses brings in the best talent period."
"I already got you one of the best... meet Marcelo Gonzalez, electronics wizard."
"I think it's more the opportunity of the market where it's like if we can sell, cash in on these guys for max value now, we can sign the talents and targets that we want."
"I love PepsiCo because they are thinking innovatively on technology, hiring talent from Silicon Valley, and launching direct-to-consumer websites like snacks.com and pantryshop.com."
"If we end up signing Enzo Fernandez for 80 million plus add-ons... it's a great player, World Cup winner."
"Manchester United are in for him in the summer. He's the number one target at the moment."
"Mike Manuel would be an amazing pickup for Manchester United."
"Fits exactly what they need in terms of their prospecting pool."
"We're getting people who used to be at Palantir, everyone knows how good our people are."
"They're getting themselves a top player here."
"The only names right now that are credible that WWE could bring in for a big-time spot at one of these major shows."
"He is literally one of the best VFX artists you could ever hire."
"If I was WWE, I'd be throwing all the money in the world at him."
"We needed a number six and he's a good addition. Man, he's one of the best defensive midfielders in the world."
"C9 had great players that were hungry, so NA was in this problem of not picking up new players."
"All we need is one of the top 10 players involved to be on the roster."
"I think this is gonna be big for them, this is gonna be great for them and I hope that this is a step in the right direction in terms of them being like 'cool we want to get talent.'"
"Knowing how to hire a good employee, like bringing good team members, like finding talent is the most important skill you can really have."
"We are big game hunters when it comes to the acquisition of top-tier talent."
"He fitted the model, so yes, I think we played over the odds at the time."
"There is not a substitute for an elite quarterback and I just don't trust caution to get one bring Brady Fair whatever it takes."
"We're swinging for the fences. We want the talents back."
"Signing can make them a lot stronger and give them more diversity I must say."
"You need people, you need facilitators, you need people who would help you sign the right players."
"It's hard to get difference makers."
"If you're that home run hire they will find a way to make the salary expectation work."
"Raznatovich signed Jokic on the spot, something he hasn't done before or after."
"How often do you get two players of that caliber to come to your team in the middle of a pennant race?"
"Top talent goes to engaged hiring managers."
"In less than three hours, Kentucky basketball picked up the best catch and shoot player in the nation and then the second best catch and shoot player."
"Your job as that department head is to find the worldclass people. If you're smart, you do well, you do. But you have to be careful with this subject matter expert. Take the information that you need to apply it for what you're doing, and you have to shitan the rest of it."
"I'm taking the best right winger in the Champions League."
"I'm going for the best left winger in the world right now."
"As we bring in that talent they bring in their operating system."
"It's one thing to sign the talent, it's so important to sign the right person."
"Recruiters are talent acquisition... there are good roles in this... there is money in talent acquisition."
"Have we ever seen the team go from no playoffs to a deep playoff run without acquiring some Superstar Talent?"
"So once again it was a case of I was trying to get all the talent that the Knoxville fans knew that I could afford that lived close enough they either lived in the territory or could drive their keep expenses down."
"Any wrestling company that signs a talent should strongly consider pre-contract signing drug tests."
"Try to put together the best team possible."
"Don't sell yourself short on trying to find the best possible talent that you can."
"...trying to get the best person for each position."
"The best employees are either stolen from somebody else or referred by one of your best employees."
"Got to recruit Shooters man you got to have Shooters."
"...just knowing that you have the potential to get a guy that you covet that much at the 8th overall selection is a phenomenal feeling..."
"Rockstar respects these modders so much that Rockstar hired them. That's mind-blowing to me."
"Raising money from VCs like us and others, they spent money to get the great people in."
"...what better way to show this than by signing one of the most talented young players in World football."
"San Jose needs it most by far... They need talent. They just need anybody to come through that door and help them."
"We identified two outstanding coaches, and we hired both of them."
"Finding the right talent is important for a great business."
"We need to focus on bulletproofing our systems and hiring A-players."
"That's the best part about being a bad team and getting the generational players."
"The race for AI dominance is more than just about technology; it's about securing the brightest brains in the field."
"I work hiring the best engineer by helping with the vetting process."
"Recruiting and sourcing are the individuals who are responsible for seeking out talent and identifying talent."
"We need to appeal to young people from every background or either gender or whatever their sexual orientation because we need to attract the best people."
"As a recruiter, I'm usually looking for certain competencies that fit the job role that I have open."
"It's not the easiest thing to solve for, but it's a bit of a miss for companies to rely on the fact that they can't find talent from a particular area because they can; they're out there."
"Great developers can be incredibly hard to find."
"Recruiting... if you can't hire the best people, then nothing else really matters."
"I'm just going to go ahead and take the best player available."
"The Giants may have gotten the best player at a position in a draft, and I think that's very rare, especially for a position of need."
"We're not just looking for business and finance majors; we're looking for people who have that initiative, strong communication skills, and intellectual curiosity."
"That's as good a draft as I've seen."
"We have a really good track record of finding good candidates."
"A good hire does the exact opposite: not only do they write amazing code, they solve business problems before they happen."
"If you really want to find the best talent, you got to have talent scouts go out and look for the best talents."
"We need highly specialized people. I want the best, I don't care how they identify."
"Google urges us to update its immigration rules to attract more AI talent."
"You're going to go get the best players in America that you think can help you win a championship."
"We hire the best person and we help them to get the tools because we believe they can find the tools if they're the right person to be successful."
"The Dodgers have proved now that they're better than almost anyone else when it comes to fixing people, acquiring people, having them fit into a culture."
"It's not rigged, but how do you guys feel about Chicago ending up with Conor Bedard?"
"Having something that people are really excited about and giving you an up in negotiations is key to recruiting talent."
"Finding talent was never really an issue for us despite the smaller resource pool because people were excited about trying Elixir."
"It's pretty obvious to me that TBO would be a very good signing."
"It's about recruitment and they've made some really good signings that's helping the club going forward."
"They've bought, inaugurally, the best footballer on the planet right now, certainly the best goal scorer."
"The whole point of being a recruiter is to identify and recruit great talent for the open roles you're responsible for."
"One of your skills... is to find the people who do have the skills you need or the capacities you want and bring them together with each other as well as with you."
"The biggest challenge is finding talent. Talent's rare."
"That's our competitive advantage."
"We've been competing for the best top talent out there."
"I'm a big believer in get the superstar, do what it takes."
"They've earned the right to bid for any footballer on the planet nowadays."
"If you get one really good hire, it will affect and benefit your business so much."
"I think that would be a smart hire for the Red Sox organization."
"The Chargers need a new number one running back, so why not add the best running back prospect since Saquon Barkley?"
"To get one of the elite guys in my opinion is really important."
"As a recruiter, you're basically going to go out there and look for the right people to fill certain positions for companies."
"If you're a company and you want top-tier employees, you want the recruitment process to be as efficient and smooth as possible."
"The Ravens just sit and take the best player available."
"Arguably Rodgers' best signing as Celtic manager."
"They're able to recruit better talents."
"You don't draft for need in the third round, you just take good players."
"At 50 to 100 million, that's when you have to think about attracting talent."
"We need to bring in the best and the brightest from around the world."
"What Dubai got right is getting the best talent."
"Any business knows that for them to be successful, they need the best employees, they need the best people in the market."
"What a pickup she has been, one of the underrated transactions this year."
"Sometimes the best hire isn't always the guy that you have at the top of your list."
"Your goal as a business owner is to hire the right talent around you."
"He's the perfect prospect that they need; he enhances their defense a ton and he could be an absolute home run for them."
"Talent management is about a clear process for identifying and bringing on high-performing talent and high potential staff."
"I brought her into the team in 1997, probably my best coaching move."
"It's recruiting, it's recruiting, it's recruiting."
"Let's just get our Blue Chip guy, lock it in, and we'll build from there."
"A.T. Perry is really a steal at the end of the sixth round."
"When in doubt, don't hire—keep looking."
"Where the conversations are helps you figure out where to post your jobs and find your best talent."
"I expect an interesting summer for Tottenham with talents and with solid players."
"We've got to transform what is a twentieth-century industrial analog brute force recruiting model into a 21st-century high-tech digital talent acquisition model."
"If you've got the guts to take a Russian, you take Meechoff."
"He's one of those under the radar intriguing signings to me."
"They acquire talent that really fits their scheme and doesn't require a lot of adjustment."