David Gill
David Gill
David Alan Gillis British football executive, formerly chief executive of Manchester United and a vice-chairman of The Football Association. He served as vice-chairman of the G-14 management committee until the G-14 was disbanded. He sits on the UEFA Executive Committee as of 2013. Gill was elected as a FIFA Vice-President sitting on the FIFA Council in 2015; rejecting this position in protest at Sepp Blatter until Blatter announced his resignation as FIFA President, following the 2015 FIFA corruption case...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth5 August 1957
All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.
Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.
Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.
The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.
What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.
Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United,
We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha.
We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
We want to keep Ole at the club. We are going to sort that out. He has been a great player for us and a fantastic individual.
If it should creep towards 60 percent that would become a major concern.
We've given them a date and it would be nice if it could happen. Everyone at the club, particularly the supporters, would like to pay tribute to Roy after everything he's done for us.
We chased it but if you are after a winger you look at maybe three but you only need one. So if you don't get number one you move onto number two.