[quote author=Wilko7 link=topic=38216.msg1025428#msg1025428 date=1262519589]
Who is responsible for researching the background of potential buyers of a famous football club?
The fans, the team manager or (wait for it) the current owner of the club?
I may be paraphrasing a little here.
Dat George seems like such a nice fella and 'e was dead nice to me bird as well. I 'aven't met Tom yet but George says 'e's a dead sound fella as well. I'm really made up like.
Fuck off.
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Oh yes, and the one thing I forgot - and you saw the worst financial crisis since the great depression did you Wilko?
Liverpool had an international consultancy firm working on finding a buyer for long enough, yes because something like that would have been beyond the scope of Moores, and Parry and everyone else at the club.
Moores never made out he was the sharpest knife in the drawer, and admitted his shortcomings.
This is not about who sold the club to who, it is about the manager making fatal mistakes in the market, and yes, it is also about Gillet and Hicks being shortsighted on funds, and not trusting the manager, but in fairness given his more recent track record I can understand their reluctance. I am also staring to think that perhaps Parry should have been subject to a little less derision than he was, he at least seemed to be able to influence the yanks, Rafa obviously can't.
regards
