David Gill quotes:

Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United,

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.

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.

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

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad