Richard Arnold met with former Manchester United chief executive David Gill at a Cheshire restaurant on Tuesday.
Arnold, the acting chief executive of United, met with Gill at Cibo in Hale on Tuesday afternoon, three days after speaking to protesters at his local pub after hearing a planned protest outside his home.
The 51-year-old may have been comparing notes on working with Gill after Saturday’s events, as Gill had spent 16 years working at Old Trafford, including 10 as executive director, before leaving in 2013.
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But Gill is still a non-executive director at United and is a regular at the box office at Old Trafford. Arnold and Gill are understood to have a good relationship and often meet to catch up.
Gill, 64, was initially replaced by Ed Woodward, who took over as executive vice president before Woodward handed over power to Arnold in February.
Since leaving United Gill, he has been a member of the UEFA Executive Committee and has served as Vice-President of British FIFA. His departure from Old Trafford in the same summer as Sir Alex Ferguson was considered one of the main reasons United had struggled over the previous nine years.
Arnold gets a phone call during his meeting with Gill
Arnold has started his term positively and there has been a change at the club since replacing Woodward on 1 February.
That includes giving more responsibility to football director John Murtough and in his recorded conversation with protesters on Saturday he stressed that Murtough and coach Erik ten Hag were in charge of football operations this summer.
However, United have yet to sign in the transfer window, and fans are upset over the lack of progress, and negotiations with Barcelona for Frenkie de Jong, Ten Hag’s main target this summer , will lengthen.
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