66 Quotes by David Gill

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,

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 have our budget set for the summer and that won't change.

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 the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

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 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.