Liverpool FC Forum

[metalhead]

This will never end will it?

I just want the best for the club.

[The Manhattan Project]

Parry isn't tough enough to be the chief executive.

We need someone like Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross" to get players to sign the line that is dotted.

[Leonmc0708]

Parry isn't tough enough to be the chief executive.

We need someone like Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross" to get players to sign the line that is dotted.

Love that film.

[JoeTerp]

Brass Balls

[THEBARON]

Too true - Parry is weak and indecisive on too  many occasions.
The partnership ?
Gerrard nearly going to Chelsea?
How can Rafa have a good working relationship with Parry if Parry was actually talking to Klinsman?
It would be impossible to trust or confide in him!
hell this is a mess!

[jonnymac1979]

Brass Balls

Quality.  Best bit in the whole film, and it's a class film.  Watched it loads of times.

[SouthCoastShankly]

Interesting comment from Football 365.com

Hicks Is Right: Liverpool Needs To Change
I watched the Tom Hicks interview today on Sky Sports News (SSN), the initial impression was that is was very well staged, Tom sat with his Liverpool mug and three kids sat in three different coloured Liverpool shirts.

Tom came across as a man that has the best intentions for Liverpool. And from what I have seen SSN did a very good interview.
He has been outspoken but this latest charm offensive has come way too late because he can't get away from the fact that he lied to the fans about a number of things, 1) debt, 2) stability, and 3) a good working relationship. For this he must go.

However, either voluntarily or involuntarily he has shone a light on some issues that have made us look at our club.

1) Rick Parry - The CE, a man that nearly lost Steven Gerrard. He has also lost a number of players due to his procrastination. Has failed in the last 10 years to capitalise on the Liverpool brand, yes this is an Americanism, but Liverpool is a huge club and we have fallen behind Chelsea in the money list and it can't all be down to ticket prices. furthermore, it may not be his fault directly that you can't buy a small-sized ladies tracksuit on-line, but it is his job to employ someone how's responsibility it is. He has not done that.

2) Debt - There is only on Roman Abramovich and he bought Chelsea. Liverpool does not have a sugar daddy to spend £1billion on them. New owners will borrow money to buy a club, it happens. Football is a business now, the days of the flat cap wearer with the clackers has gone. The local butcher can no longer sponsor a game. The 21st century vision of Liverpool is to borrow the money, to buy success, to fill the new stadium that will then pay the debt, it happens in all other forms of business and it works, also look at Man U.

3) 'The Liverpool way' - this way, as Man U fans rightly say has not won us a title in almost 20 years. The quiet unassuming way that Liverpool went about business was good when big money was not involved, but it is not all about spotting the young talent, you also need to buy world-class players. See Arsenal's capitulation and Man U's achievements. Because of tradition we have lost out in many ways. We have fewer corporate boxes, fewer shops abroad. As Hicks said, we only have two or three major sponsors; we need to get in the corporate game. Brand Liverpool may not 'The Liverpool way', but winning is. What's more important, tradition or winning?

However, Hicks looks like a man that is drowning and desperately trying to hold onto power by charming the audience. All the talk is that Hicks can't raise the money needed to buy Gillett shares and that Gillett will sell to DIC at the end of May, when the exclusive purchase period expiries.

But what will DIC do if they come to power? Well they have stated that the first thing would be to complete a thorough investigation of every facet of the club. What changes will that intail? It was no coincidence that as DIC's protracted 'Due Diligence' went on, a dossier was leaked to the press stating that DIC would sell Liverpool in seven years for a profit.

So I feel that more changes are to come and as it is a media world, it will be played out on SSN, the papers and the radio. It's not great and change is hard, but Liverpool needs to change.

[Bad Bob]

the point i am trying to make is that there are bigger issues at the club than the owners

I 100% disagree with this point.  That is all.

[nobybob]

i suppose most of the fans on here would rather him sell to someone else and then we will have no guarantee how they will run the club. lets remember these are business people with no affinity to the club and they will run it as a business, and therefore be looking to make a profit..

hey roman is loaded, how many would want him as the owner? or i suppose you all think DIC are real fans and will do everything for the benefit of the club rather than for their own benefit, I know they said they would but then so did gillet and hicks.

some of you make me laugh, if someone shows an interest in us you all think they are red and doing it for the benefit of the club, so naive some of you is laughable. yet i am called clueless, i hardly think selling mobile phones, bingo calling or flipping burgers makes you an authority and business and how business works, look at all the crying on here because a loan was taken out   

no other way of putting this ----YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE TOSSSER LAD FULL STOP------
I find it hard to believe that anyone could be as thick , arrogant , and naive as you. therefore i have come to the conclusion that you are just a wind up merchant who posts sh!te, any sh!te to be controversial and argumentative. I for one will not give you anymore of the attention you seek by reading or replying to any more of the trash you post.

[MR C]

now is the perfect time to step up our get hicks out campaign.lets give him a right good kick in the heart after his family by the fire routine.he will then know for sure there is no way back for him and he should sell.

this guy thinks we have forgotten it was him who told rafa to shut up and use the players he has,when rafa wanted to strengthen.yet now he is telling us it was parry who is responsible for those comments.

anybody who falls for the sky interview,needs to remember this is the same sort of tactics george bush used to get elected for a 2nd time.the world wondered what sort of morons fell for that routine.
are we going to fall for his lies a 2nd time about no debt on the club and all the wonderful things he want to do for liverpool.

remember these quotes:

“It is really time for Rafa to quit talking about new players and to coach the players we have. After the Champions League Final in Athens, Rafa made certain demands of us and we responded to those demands in the summer.

“We brought in some good players and spent more money than has ever been spent before at this club.

does that sound like a guy who wants to throw loads of money at rafa benitez.
what he is doing here is trying to get the fans to be so nasty to gillet,that gillet sells his shares without even considering the fans wishes.

this guy does not want liverpool to do too well on the pitch because it mean more investment will be needed.but he needs liverpool on his cv for leverage in future rip offs.in his interview he says dic won't invest loads of money for players because they are too intelligent.is he saying that he is not intelligent and willing to invest untold millions for players.....this guy is a very smooth liar.thats why he does all the talking and not gillet.

remember its this smooth talking that saw parry dump dic for hicks and gillet...don't believe any of it.

[The Manhattan Project]

I tend to agree with Hicks on certain points. More should be done to expand LFC's commercial range.

Then again, he's got to deliver too. Those guys have placed debt on the club after promising they wouldn't, and they still haven't started work on the new stadium (assuming the paperwork and planning stuff is cleared).

The fact that Arsebone have a 60K seater and Manure have a 76K seater costs us with our 44K seater with every single game we play.

[lakes10]

The way i see it now is if you like Rafa then you need to keep Hicks

[jono]

hes spot on about Parry

[The Manhattan Project]

Hicks needs to understand that "big talk" means nothing.

"Big stadium" means more.

When I see Sky Sports showing clips of JCB's on Stanley Park, then I might consider him more credible.

[account deleted by request]

The way i see it now is if you like Rafa then you need to keep Hicks

I think its the other way round at the moment Lakes. If you like Hicks you need to keep Rafa. Hicks is trying to use Rafa's popularity to gain favour. Whether there is any real close bond between the two I am not sure. I think Rafa should stay in a neutral corner until the big hitters have slugged it out and we have a winner.

Parry as Leon says should stay until Hicks has gone, as Hicks would have control of the boardroom if Parry left now.