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
We have our budget set for the summer and that won't change.
We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.
What the clubs would like to do is look at the actual format of the Champions League run by UEFA.
We, as clubs, were not happy, by and large, with that reduction when it was made three years ago and we would like it to return back to that level. The proposal is not to go to UEFA and say 'go from 13 to 17,' but 'this is how we can do it.' We may be right or we may be wrong, but let's have a dialogue about it.
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 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.
We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.
We are very confident that we will reach an agreement to extend Ryan's stay at Old Trafford.
We are still the most profitable club in the world. We have nothing to hide. We are transparent and publish our figures when no other Premier League club does.
Yes, there is some dissent and clearly we understand the feelings but we feel it is a minority,
We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United,
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.
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.