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 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.
Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.
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 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.