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
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 don't have major limits 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.