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 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.
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
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.
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,
As a result we have now spent next summer's transfer budget unless players are disposed of to realise cash for re-investment.
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.
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.
What the clubs would like to do is look at the actual format of the Champions League run by UEFA.
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.
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 very confident that we will reach an agreement to extend Ryan's stay at Old Trafford.
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.
I wanted it very white, so I created this white leather headboard and base, which in fact leads all around it. So when you light it up, it transports you, it lifts you up.
You f***** us over big-time, Gill I cant believe you sold us out.