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 did have concerns and we now have in place the business plan which was in place when they took over.
We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.
As a result we have now spent next summer's transfer budget unless players are disposed of to realise cash for re-investment.
This is actually a very healthy situation. Some counties operate with just a one percent contingency.
The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.