David Gill Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.”

“Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.”

“There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.”

“The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.”

“The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.”