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
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.
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.
I would think if he gets convicted of something there may be some changes. We still go by innocent until proven guilty.
We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
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 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.
We have our budget set for the summer and that won't change.
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 have a very strong balance sheet. We are very comfortable we are generating cash. We can compete successfully in the transfer market.
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 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.
The St. Paul Police Department was simply too close to this investigation to get it right. However, that's no excuse for getting it wrong.
By and large, the team is in good shape but we have already completed two key acquisitions and there is one other place we are looking at, for which money will be made available as the Glazers have made clear.