Interview with Parry in last nights evening standard

[Senrab_nhoj]

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But if all this worked under Parry's stewardship, surely the decision in 2007 to sell his beloved Liverpool to Messrs George Gillett and Tom Hicks rather than Dubai International Capital was a mistake? The former chairman, David Moores, thinks so. But Parry, by then chief executive at Anfield, does not.

 

He responds: "It wasn't a case of us rejecting Dubai. They were the preferred bidder but they walked away." So what went wrong with the Americans? "I think one of the fundamentals was that they actually didn't get on terribly well with each other."

 

Parry also feels that, for all their North American sports experience, nothing prepared them for the English game. He adds: "The intensity of English football is completely different, particularly when you're taking on a club like Liverpool. You've got a particular passion and things have to be done the Liverpool way.

 

"You change that and underestimate the power of the supporters at your peril. It's difficult to understand that from afar. Kenny [Dalglish] understands that and he has done a great job unifying the club."

 

However, Parry, who is clearly keen to promote his own stewardship, says Gillett and Hicks were not all bad: "Don't forget and certainly until I left - which was 2009 [February] - we were second in the League. The business plan was a net spend of £20million on players. And they'd over delivered on that. They took us pretty close to winning the Premier League in 2008-2009, within four points of Manchester United with a huge points total [86].

 

"So it wasn't all doom and gloom. Then, in 2009, for whatever reason, there didn't appear to be any net spend at all on the players. By which time they clearly realised that they probably needed to sell completely."

 

Unacceptable as such a view will be to many on the Kop, Parry says: "The great privilege you have as a fan is you can see everything in black and white.

 

"In reality everything tends to be shades of grey. You have a desperate desire to find the simple solution. Sometimes there isn't one."

 

Parry, whose Liverpool pay-off was an estimated £4.3m - treble what Brian Barwick received from the FA - will not talk about Hicks wanting to get rid of him. "That was his prerogative, he owned the place. That's not an area I want to go into," he says.

 

But Parry does admit that Rafael Benitez, who Parry brought in to replace Gerard Houllier in 2004, had problems with Gillett and Hicks. "He had difficulties with each of them. I don't think that top coaches are easy to manage.

 

"You don't get into the business if you want people who are easy. You want people who are winners. He's very demanding and he's a perfectionist. But I'm still friendly with Rafael."

[Ed the Wool]

What a f***ing prick.

 

Say what you like Rick, bulls*** all you like, but YOU know and WE know that you failed us for almost 20 years and then when you had to make the biggest decision in the clubs history, you delivered us into the hands of a pair of shysters with no due diligence at all.

 

Livid.

[Rimbeux]

That's disgraceful political blame shifting crap from Parry there.

[allez les rouges]

For whatever reason in2009 the money wasn't there.

 

As if it wasn't obvious what the reason was !

 

You sold out to a leverage buyout merchants, don't claim now that you didn't know. If you didn't know, then you SHOULD have known!

[Falconhoof]

No wonder he's f***ed off out of the country. Shame on you Parry, s***house, liar and damn near killer of this club.

[Red Kent]

Everything bad in our club in this day and age can be traced back to his door.

[McBain]

He can't have said that with a straight face?

 

Incredible bulls***

[madaboutlfc]

"You only sell the family silver once "

Rick Parry

 

 

f*** off you incompetent prick

[Benzo-13]

Everything bad in our club in this day and age can be traced back to his door.

Moores more so. Teapot in a tea-cosy malaise.

[Red Kent]

Moores as well. He gave Parry far to much power and it was abused with interest.

[torn]

It was parry's fault DIC walked away. He lied to them about dealing with H&G, they figured this out and walked. This is the only piece of insider knowledge I've ever had and probably will ever have, but I'm 100% confident of it.

[Mike]

exactly...why did dic walk away parry?

[torn]

exactly...why did dic walk away parry?

 

He lied to them about dealing with H&G, they figured this out and walked.

[Senrab_nhoj]

I think that question might have been rhetorical

[Woodsyla]

It was parry's fault DIC walked away. He lied to them about dealing with H&G, they figured this out and walked. This is the only piece of insider knowledge I've ever had and probably will ever have, but I'm 100% confident of it.

I blame Moores more than Parry for that, H&G offered more per share and that was what swung it for him.

[madaboutlfc]

I blame Moores more than Parry for that, H&G offered more per share and that was what swung it for him.

Parry had no future with DIC so probably that played a part as well.. In retrospect with DIC going belly up we could have had Abu Dhabi owning us and probably would be seeing the madness here as well

[Woodsyla]

Parry had no future with DIC so probably that played a part as well.. In retrospect with DIC going belly up we could have had Abu Dhabi owning us and probably would be seeing the madness here as well

I'm sure that would have played a massive part in what he advised Moores to do but DIC met with them and offered £4K a share. If Moores hadn't been a greedy t*** then Parry would have just done his job.

[Leo No.8]

What a gigantic, self satisfied bell end Parry comes across as there.

 

We nearly won the title in 2008/09 because of a mixture of Rafa's fine work, and the spending of money effectively borrowed by the club (but credited to the owners) on the likes of Torres which alongside 'aquisition debt' would go on to cripple us with the interest it accrued. Parry makes it sound above like everything was peachy until he left which is just f*cking outrageous. His inability to accept the blame goes hand in hand with Moores' 'I believed dem fellas' self pity drivel in The Echo a few years back.

 

The two of them are despicable, they nearly ruined this great club in the name of their own self interests (two already wealthy men who didn't need it) and still don't have the moral fibre to give us a proper apology or even accept blame.

 

Makes me seethe, I wouldn't p*ss on either of them if they were on fire.

[Extraordinary Swindle]

the decision in 2007 to sell his beloved Liverpool to Messrs George Gillett and Tom Hicks rather than Dubai International Capital was a mistake? The former chairman, David Moores, thinks so. But Parry, by then chief executive at Anfield, does not.

You don't have to read beyond that - in hindsight it wasn't a mistake? Clearly not doing a background check was a mistake.

[smithdown]

Why don't millionaires ever admit they f*cked anything up?

 

Bunch of tw*ts.

[Crazy Horse]

f*** off Parry, you miserable-faced c***.