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
Kieran Richardson played for England last summer in Chicago and did very well but views himself as an England player and comes in and wants more money. I don't buy the argument that international appearances add value to a player - they come in and ask for more money. We are not a selling club and we seldom sell international players.
We certainly believe he will be staying with the club next year. He signed a new long-term contract and there is two further years to go on that. He is part of our squad which we are looking to improve in the summer.
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.
What the clubs would like to do is look at the actual format of the Champions League run by UEFA.
The Manchester United shirt is the most iconic image in world sport and the chance for companies to appear on it is very rare. This deal re-establishes the club firmly among the most valuable names in world sport.
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.
Our plans were to bid for the player (Rooney) in summer 2005, but Newcastle United's bid and Everton's subsequent interest in selling him, forced us to accelarate our plans or risk losing him,
I would think if he gets convicted of something there may be some changes. We still go by innocent until proven guilty.
We have our budget set for the summer and that won't change.
Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.
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 knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad
The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.
Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.