Club news: Henry, Dubai and the return of Rick Parry

[gkmacca]

Parry is one of those characters who always says 'Leave it with me,' and then two months later you discover he's not done anything about it. That's how this club used be run. He came here as this high-flying, ultra-modern executive from the Premier League - perfect, it seemed, to shake us up - and then he basically went to sleep for a decade or so.

 

[tombrown]

Or the ISIS stand for short?

@RedNinja makes a joke & gets no likes, but @athensruairi explains it for the masses and does. The world has turned upside down!

 

[Athens]

@RedNinja makes a joke & gets no likes, but @athensruairi explains it for the masses and does. The world has turned upside down!

This place is a mystery.

 

[tombrown]

"A shot in the dark, the big question mark in history"

 

[Frogfish]

Yes. It seems to me most, if not all of, the great scouts have largely come to the role by accident. I've no idea how you scout scouts, as you say! We've done okay in the most obvious sense of headhunting ones from other clubs, such as the City ones, but it's otherwise very hit and miss. It's easier to find young and inexperienced scouts because they've got the time and energy to travel all over the place day after day to watch games. The irony is the more experienced and shrewd they get, the more family and other concerns intervene to make most of them drop out.

We don't need scouts. We need a spy network. Therefore hiring ex-KGB / CIA / MI5 and MI6 agents and installing them in each of the major leagues around the world seems to be the best way forward to me.

 

[localny]

In fairness part of it was probably down to the amiable but terminally incompetent David Moores being chairman at the time. However, the main charge against Parry is that he was a commercial failure on whose watch LFC fell hopelessly behind in commercial terms, which in turn meant falling behind in footballing terms, as other clubs - notably the Mancs unfortunately - raced ahead on the financial side and consequently on the footballing side as well. He had previously done well as CEO of the Premier League, but that was more of a bureaucratic job than a truly commercial one, as the Prem didn't/doesn't have to face competition and can more or less dictate terms to anyone wanting to do business with it.

Parry's crowning glory of course was to usher in the reign of the two cowboys, telling us fans to trust him and Moores on the issue. 'Nuff said really.

So well put. He' was asleep at the wheel, professionally speaking. Mind you, Moores is portrayed as an accidental owner by some, with no real drive to direct and lift the club.

 

[localny]

Well Parry had the job of finding someone for Moores to hire. And he picked those two. Then as JJ says, Moores embraced the cash idea. I'll also never forget the morning when Gerrard decided to stay rather than join Chelsea. Sky's cameras saw Parry strolling sleepily into work, saying, 'Stevie's staying,' but sounding astonished. He let that situation go from an impossibility to a near certainty because he just sat on his arse and failed to get anything done. It was the same with transfers - player after player slipped away because he was so stunningly slow to act. He must have driven managers mad.

Wasn't there a vacation the Bahamas in there too? Eejit,

 

[Judge Jules]

So well put. He' was asleep at the wheel, professionally speaking. Mind you, Moores is portrayed as an accidental owner by some, with no real drive to direct and lift the club.

The way I heard it, we approached the Moores family for a cash injection and one of the terms on which they agreed was that David (the talentless black sheep of a successful family who hadn't even been able to hold down a job in the family business, let alone when they set him up with a record shop of his own) join the LFC board, ostensibly to keep an eye on the family investment but actually just to give him something to do. Whether it was specified that he take the chair, my informant didn't know. Whether this was a ploy by a fundamentally bluenose family to put the skids under us, nobody knows.

 

[6TimesaRed]

@RedNinja makes a joke & gets no likes, but @athensruairi explains it for the masses and does. The world has turned upside down!

I know yeah... the Bizarre thing is, it didn't really need explaining...

I thought the joke was quite decent too..

 

[Athens]

I know yeah... the Bizarre thing is, it didn't really need explaining...

I thought the joke was quite decent too..

It's the way I tell them.

 

[StevieM]

Yes. I mean, even now, it's exasperating. We had a player in his prime who'd just led the club to a European Cup. He says he'll definitely stay if they sort something out. Parry nods lazily, lets his in tray pile up and goes off for a snooze. More impatient noises from Gerrard's camp. Parry takes it for granted Gerrard will wait for him to get something sorted. Then shock at the Chelski news and Parry hasn't a clue what to do. From then on he just seems to resign himself to losing the player. Utterly clueless.

I was on my way back to Australia from Northern Ireland. Caught a boat to Troon, & rented a car at Prestwick Airport to drive to Heathrow.

I was somewhere in between Liverpool & Manchester at a service station off the M6 when I heard the news that Gerrard had changed his mind. For a second I felt like driving to Anfield.

I headed on to London where I was due to fly out the next afternoon.

As I was preparing to board I noticed a security guard turning off all the TVs. On the plane, a security issue was mentioned.

Upon reaching Singapore, I found out London had been bombed.

Crazy couple of days.

 

[Jack D Rips]

I was on holiday in Spain. Every day I was beside a Chelsea fan at the pool who kept on and on about Gerrard moving to progress his career. The morning the news broke I bought a newspaper and left it sitting on the lounger he used, and watched from my balcony to see him arrive and read it. He looked up and caught my one fingered wave.

We had a good laugh about it in the end. He wasn't a bad lad actually, just a bit cuntish about football.

 

[jason]

Parry is a squamate shit who did his utmost to destroy us. I want the FA stooge nowhere near us ever again.

none of it was accidental. like his ties though. slither.

 

[cloggypop]

Squamate shit is superb.