David Gill
British executiveWikipedia
20
MENTIONS
17
EPISODES
14
PODCASTS
Search complete. 20 mentions across 17 episodes found for "David Gill".
Oct 11, 2026
Scott SaundersHOST
You just go through this cycle over and over again of change, and it will never really end up being fixed until the root causes are dealt with And that goes from the very top, or if there's somebody that is able to look at what the root causes are and go and fix them, then great.
Scott SaundersHOST
But this is a rot that has been set in from the very top of the football club because of the Glazer family's ownership since 2005, right? And Alex Ferguson and David Gill managed to mask over it for a good eight years before everything started to hit the fan.
Scott SaundersHOST
So the coach is not the be-all and end-all problem, and changing the coach isn't going to miraculously fix everything, right? But what the coach has to do is get the best out of the group of players that he's got.
Scott SaundersHOST
And I know that people don't think that this squad is that good.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
The last time we won the Premier League, but the speed of Sir Alex's departure.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
And Man United's absolute implosion from there because David Gill went as well as the CEO.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
So we lost a very good CEO and we lost an all-timer as a manager.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
And the way we let that just disintegrate so quickly was incredible.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
I felt full of energy, even though when my hip was hurting me, I sometimes thought I'd never want to be seen on the touchline with a cane.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
I love the club and football, but the death of my sisters, my wife's sister changed everything.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
And I decided I spoke to David Gill in the February and told him I decided to retire.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
He also told me he decided to retire.
Jake HumphreyHOST
Yeah.
Damian HughesHOST
And then he carried that, that resistance right the way through when he opened his restaurant in Manchester, and he says Alex Ferguson and David Gill called him a disgrace 'cause he wasn't focusing on being the best footballer that he could in their eyes, and he was like, "If you're gonna give me a job when I finish playing, and if you're gonna be there to carry me through that post-retirement stage of your career, then I'll listen to you.
Damian HughesHOST
But I'm not just gonna accept your label that I'm a discharged footballer." So this whole idea of labeling- Can be really powerful in some cases.
Damian HughesHOST
You can la- if we label ourselves, and we give ourselves positive characteristics.
Joel TudorPANELIST
It's not like he's moved over mountains while he's been here in the la- last two years.
Joel TudorPANELIST
It's not as if we're losing David Gill who's built the st- uh, you know, transformed the club in the time he's been here.
Joel TudorPANELIST
I don't think many Man United fans will look at Berrada and have any kind of sentimental value towards him.
Joel TudorPANELIST
I don't think many people care to be honest.
Rio FerdinandHOST
Just another thing.
Rio FerdinandHOST
If we get awarded the Premier League title on the back of a guilty finding in court, I need to speak to Mr. David Gill about my win bonus.
Rio FerdinandHOST
Really interesting conversation.
Rio FerdinandHOST
I want my win
Kieran MaguireGUEST
Manchester United is a people business.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
A- and, again, I mi- I won't necessarily make myself popular here, but I r- I remember the old days at United, um, when Sir Alex and David Gill, they knew the name of every single employee, whether it was the receptionist, whether it was the tea lady, whether it was the, the guy that collects the cones, whether it was the reserve fullback.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
And Manchester United was a people club, and that allowed Manchester United to, to deal with some of the additional challenges that the club's had over the years because you felt like you were part of Manchester United.
Kieran MaguireGUEST
Didn't matter what your job was.
Mark Man-BryansGUEST
And everything Andrew went through there, I was making a mental list in my head and almost checking off against it.
Mark Man-BryansGUEST
You know, the power struggles that you see now that you didn't see when it was David Gill, Sir Alex Ferguson and the players were all there.
Mark Man-BryansGUEST
They kind of led the way.
Mark Man-BryansGUEST
You didn't really hear anything from anyone above that.
Martyn ZieglerGUEST
I know we're just, like, looking back to, like, 2015 when, like, you know, all the police raided the FIFA hotel in Zurich and, like, arrested all those people.
Martyn ZieglerGUEST
[laughs] And then, like, the next day, people like Greg Dyke, English FA chairman, and David Gill, they was, like, saying, "There's, there's no way we can have a pres- presidential election." But we, we went ahead, and Sepp Blatter [laughs] won by 133 votes to 72 or something.
Martyn ZieglerGUEST
If that doesn't sum up FIFA, then, then what does? Uh, you know, he could be in the, what was then the, you know, biggest corruption scandal that had ever hit.
Martyn ZieglerGUEST
And then there's the f- president.
Adam MonkGUEST
But they'll look at margins and revenue.
Adam MonkGUEST
They won't look at, you know, like, as long as, the only act United now when they're not, you know, getting towards Europe, and that's for a reason, it's because of money, right? So, that's United, like, covered cities, infrastructure from top to bottom, Khaldun, Ferran, Pep, cheeky there was layers to it right and United never had that David Gill of course went as well when Ferguson left so the whole infrastructure was ripped out of the club City have never had that even with Pep going the infrastructure has remained that's it that's all there is to it and yeah they chose Viana Pep will have had a say in choosing Viana as well of course he would like I'm sure Pep will have been consulted on that but Cheeky, yeah.
Adam MonkGUEST
I reckon Cheeky probably had the final say if there was one.
Adam MonkGUEST
Yeah, he would have met someone and gone, I
James HorncastleGUEST
I'm sure, I'm sure some of these coaches that we've just mentioned would be able to do that, uh, yeah, by requesting their pet, but there's this sense that they're more boxed in than ever before at club level.
James HorncastleGUEST
And, and as much as we felt like we were already moving away from this English or British style manager where you have Sir Alex Ferguson, and Ferguson does everything at the football club with help from David Gill.
James HorncastleGUEST
It felt like there was already a kind of creep on, on those responsibilities.
James HorncastleGUEST
But coaches still had wider responsibilities beyond just, you know, to use that awful American sort of X's and O's, and it now just feels like a lot of American owners just want...
7 more episodes mention David Gill.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.