Power struggles have become the norm at our club over the last year or so, the latest casulty is Rick Parry who has decided 'by mutual consent' to leave the club at the end of this season. Normally when someone leaves LFC, I like to look back on their career and focus on the more positive aspects.
However, for some reason or other, I can't really think of anything positive to say about Rick Parry. Maybe it's just a mind block, I don't know, but I'm open to any suggestions you may have.
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I can think of something very positive to say about him. He is finally leaving our club. It should have been years ago but better late than never.
I will miss Parry and his colourful array of ties. All we need now is for the Yanks to follow him out the door. Benitez must be thrilled with this and I bet we see him sign his contract very soon now :-)
It's best for the club that he leaves and despite his many many faults, I do think he had the best interests of our club at heart over the years.
Sure he was a bit of a fool, but then again most management types are precisely just that anyway. I hope he doesn't get a great big golden handshake as he doesn't deserve it.
maybe rafa might actually be able to sign the players he wants this summer
Yes, like the author I can't think of anything good Parry ever did. This idiot brought Benítez to the club and blocked the sale of the absolutely useless Alonso last summer.
The messiah (Benítez) on the other hand never does anything wrong. He has brought world class players like Dossena or Lucas to our club and goes for a win whenever we play relegation fodder.
To be honest with you, I would be glad to see more people like Dummy as he or she seems to have a bit more of a perspective and a bit less of rose tinted glasses.
Probably the best news I've heard all day !!
Benitez should leave the club with Parry. I prefer Parry over Benitez honestly
Nobbs, you will soon get abused by some people who can't accept another opinion than their own. Sadly it has come so far among fellow Liverpool supporters.
anteater, are you off your head lad?
Alonso has been by far our best player this season.
After Souness, full of goodwill but not a clue, almost tore the club apart Roy Evan did a fantastic job as far as triage. Parry has to be commended for bringing in Houllier, who reverted the club back into a team challenging regular for trophies and when it was time to Houllier to go Parry had the ambition to chase down to of Europes most exciting young managers, eventually convincing Rafa to join the club. Unfortunately after the success of signing Rafa, Parry was either poorly advised or naive to sell the club to Hicks and Gillette. I think the writing was on the wall the same time that the ink was drying on the contracts. There was a bit of a rush about the proceedings. Whether this was motivated by greed or the exasperation of incredibly upsetting AGM's or mixture of both we'll never know. But that "Day of Infamy" had practically destroyed the good work he'd carried out. Dithering after Istanbul almost cost us Gerrard. Missing out on transfers of players although costing a little more, that would in hindsight, now be considered absolute bargains. Where dealing in the bargain basement started to tell, especially when the opportunity to sign Torres emphasised the quality of player we were missing out on. The challenge for Liverpool FC is to not to be rash when appointing a new chief executive. This decision is as important as the transference from Gerrard Houllier to Rafa Benetiz.
anteater,
from wat i know, most of the liverpool fans i know think Benitez should go. Go check facebook. I am with the majority.
Nobbs, I am with you on that one for sure, but I usually get slated and/or abused for asking for Rafa's head. Being critical of Benítez, too, seems to be forbidden for some people. I guess these folks mix up support and blind faith.
Anonymous at 15.12:
Sorry I didn't make it clear enough for you that those lines you refer to were meant in an ironic way. Didn't mean to confuse you. I am well aware of Alonso's importance to our squad, which I feel is as high as that of Gerrard or Torres.
Dear anteater,
I've been slacked off before, mainly by british fans. Ha ha, guess u experienced the same thing.
Kinda miss Dalglish. He is the only guy, I feel, in this modern world, who can take on Fergie, u feel?
Well, Nobbs, it's a nice thought as Dalglish is my boyhood hero, but he's been out of business for quite some time so I am not quite sure whether he would survive long enough in todays short-lived game of immediate success requirements.
There aren't too many real alternatives to Benítez. Mourninho? May be a good manager, but is he one who would do things the Liverpool way? Surely not. I would have liked Hiddink, but he wishes to retire soon and has been hooked up by Chelsick anyway. IMHO we should have installed O'Neill instead of Benítez back then, but he probably wouldn't want to manage Liverpool.
Well anteater i've heard quite a lot of people stating the O'neil theory.
But if you analyse it from a football perspective I don't think he'd be right. Why? Because if you look at his teams and this include Celtic, Leiceter city and now of course Aston Villa his style of football is to play counter attacking.
This has has been show in the past two seasons that it won't work for the top 4. As teams sit back and defend. It works for the teams that he has managed because either the league has been relatively weak or the team is not considered one of the elites and thus other teams are not afraid of attacking them.
I think you'll find as the season progresses and teams become more worried about Aston Villa, they will begin to sit back and defend. We'll see what he can do then.
This is not bashing counter attacking football, as all teams use it effectively and the scum built several titles on this brand of football but in the modern day football has evolved and the PL is more technical than it ever was before.
Why sack a manager that has made Liverpool the best club in Europe. According to UEFA Liverpool are the best club in Europe using results over the past 5yrs!! Also dont forget where we were when he took over 4/5th now we are challenging and you want to get rid of him. You fickle fans are what is wrong with football, you want overnight success, it took fergie 7 seasons to bring the title. And in Benitez's time in charge his record is better than fergies was in his first 5yrs. So why get rid of someone that yr after yr improves us. You would like him sacked to get a new manager that must start from scratch get new players and teach a new philosophy?? I guarantee the wait for a title would be even longer. Stability is the key. see Chelsea all the chopping and changing is doing no good. To be consistent you need stability. Benitez is the best we have had in a long time, give him more time.
red, so we would be about where we are if we had O'neill instead of Benítez, right. Will be interesting to see how O'Neill will cope with teams sitting back. Will he be stubborn and insist on his tactics or try finding a solution?
Anonymous at 18:16, if you've read my previous posts you will surely have recognised that I don't see a proper replacement for Benítez.
Being the best club in Europe over the past five years is all nice and stuff (Bayern Munich are second best and have won sod all), but I would like Liverpool to challenge for the title come May (any given year) and not because the other teams have had a bad season but because we are having a good one. Let's wait until the end of the season and I bet that we won't have many more points than last year.
Many people use this "Ferguson was at the scum for 7 years until he won something". Well, did he take over a team that was quite close to the top of the league in the previous years? No. Rafa took over a team that had qualified for the Champions League the following season. I don't think that you can compare those two situations. When I recently suggested to a friend that we could bring in a relatively unknown manager (like Ferguson was back then) he simply said that that (Ferguson) was 20 or so years ago and it won't work anymore today.
Further down the line I don't think that a hypothetical new manager would have to start from scratch as I don't think that the entire squad would leave. Many of them are at Liverpool because it is a great club. A new manager would probably address areas Benítez has, so far, failed to solve (full-backs, wingers). I can't see Rafa improving us year after year, but this may have various reasons. Maybe I am too critical, maybe you wear rose-tinted glasses.
You guarantee that the wait for the league title would be longer with a new manager. We will never now, except if we win it this season. Who would have thought we'd win the Champions League in Benítez' first season? You? Me neither.
Anyway, have a nice evening, all.
So, Anteater, what you're saying is that you don't see a manager better than Benitez available? That's probably because almost every club in the world would gladly trade managers with us. Does that make sense to you? No one better / everyone wants him...
And sorry, mate, but as long as the yanks are in power, you won't see the "Liverpool Way" anywhere near Anfield. You could appoint Dalglish, Paisley or Shankly and yet hear public arguments within the club everyday and probably even worse.
And Facebook supporters majority? Give me a break, man. Listen to the Kop. You know where it is, right?
good riddance i say. It was about time someone left, hopefully the owners will be next. What i hope for is that we can find some new owners and a CEO that can work together and be united. All the infighting at LFC has possibly cost us the title this year. We need stability at the top. I would say that Aston Villa, Manure, Arsenal and Everton are good examples of having stability at the top. Give Rafa a budget to work with and then let him choose whichever players he wants. The manner in which the club has let Rafa down in the transfer windows has been a disgrace.
One of the main reasons Rafa, has failed to address these problem areas (FB's and Wingers) some would say is because of Rick Parry. Don't forget Dani Alves was almost our player but because Parry wouldn't sanction a 10M bid we lost out. Barca then bought him for over 20M.
Liverpool were not a top side when Rafa took over we were going backwards under Houllier, do you even remember the misfits we had on the squad? where are they all now??
Anteater yes you are too critical. Success will not happen overnight you have to build it. And since Rafa took over we have gotten better every year!
I say allow rafa to control what he spends the money on, if he had control players like Vidic, Simao and Alves would be at our club!
Don't get me wrong I too get frustrated with Rafa and wonder abou his decisions, but he is the boss and does not answer to me. Look at Wenger many say he is so stubborn he refuses to buy players when they are in need and rather bought an attacking midfielder rather than a defensive one. He has his policy and he believes in that, and everyone should respect that. Yes we are allowed to be angry and disagree with decisions but it stops there. We are so close now to a great squad. dont forget we have only lost 1 game all season. Yes we have drawn too many, but the difference between a win and a draw is so small, sometimes a bad ref decision or the post/bar is hit.
I say we need owners that will back benitez in the transfer market. How can we compete with Utd, 30M for Rio, 30M for rooney, 32M for Berbatov, 25M for Hargreaves, we cant compete. we have to settle for gambles like Dossena, Aurelio, Pennant, etc. Give Rafa the money and im sure he will bring quality!
good riddance parry, thats all i'm gonna say
Since Parry is gone Rafa will have more power. I just wonder if that is a good thing or not.
yeah!!! gud bye mr. shite parry! good news for lfc fans!! u walk alone parry!!
The departure of Parry means very little as he is only part of the problem. If one had a gangrenous foot and Surgeons remove only the little toe....it will not help one bit, and that's the sad case with Pool. Between Rafa, Parry, the Yanks, Pool have been turned into a joke....the solution? major surgery!! I hope that at the end of this season (after we have thrown away the League title and end up 4th) that Rafa is made accountable and that he does not blame it all on Parry. It is my humble opinion that Pool will never win the PL title as long as Rafa is there...he would probably make it in Spain....but not in the UK. I have just heard that we lost 2-0 ......?? Amputate I say.
Nobbs, anteater, your statements make me think that both you are very young, almost unconscious people (as usually in internet forums nowadays).
Godthanking the Yanks are the chiefs in charge of this club and not any of you.
It´s funny. All of you know where pool was if Benitez was not here. Maybe you don't win the PL title with him at charge but how many PL titles you won the latest years before Rafa arrives? I guess that Rafa arrives here to stopping a glorious stage for this club.
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