Comments on: Is Parry’s departure a victory for Hicks? http://www.thisisanfield.com/2009/02/27/is-parrys-departure-a-victory-for-hicks/ For all your LFC needs. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:24:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: JB Kopite http://www.thisisanfield.com/2009/02/27/is-parrys-departure-a-victory-for-hicks/comment-page-1/#comment-12516 JB Kopite Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:09:59 +0000 http://www.thisisanfield.com/?p=5461#comment-12516 If you look at the forums, you'd think we'd signed Lionel Messi! Matt's article spells it out well. We now have a situation where 4 voting board members has become 3 or 3 plus a puppet hand picked by George and Tom. It pretty much means the owners can do what they like... On the plus side Rafa may be getting what he wants. And for anyone just thinking Rafa should sign his contract, you're wrong. He wants what all the fans want - success on the pitch. He doesn't care about anything else - and that's what we want right? So if he's holding out to have more say - he's sticking his neck out for all the supporters. Just remember that. The board can sack him whenever they want. So he just wants the right pieces in place for him to do his job - I commend him. And for all those suggesting the icing on the cake would be new owners - be careful what you ask for. I think all of us would have preferred DIC to the Americans. But do you want the yanks to sell this club at a huge profit and walk away? That means more debt on the club, rising prices, less money for transfers (as we get even bigger interest payments) - lets get real there is no sugar daddy coming along who is going to pay in cash and not want a return to equal the investment(we can hope!). Perhaps the best we can hope for is if Rafa is on good terms with Hicks, Gillette leaves and Hicks gets an investor in that enables us to move forward with the stadium. And lets hope a new Chief Exec can get our club more commercial! We need it to compete. Look at the likes of Aston Villa creeping up on us... And to all those fans prioritising the league, the league, the league... yeah we'd all love it but its not realistic - the money is in the Champions League. For now it has to be the priority(sorry but it's true). We need that cash more than Manure, Chelski or Arsenal. That's the reality - it's a business. Credit to Rafa we are competing with Manure and Chelski. We have nothing like the squads they do - and we're still up there fighting... but don't be under any illusions about the priorities... its about cash. So is Rick Parry leaving a good thing? Who knows, but I wouldn't be celebrating just yet... If you look at the forums, you’d think we’d signed Lionel Messi! Matt’s article spells it out well. We now have a situation where 4 voting board members has become 3 or 3 plus a puppet hand picked by George and Tom. It pretty much means the owners can do what they like…

On the plus side Rafa may be getting what he wants. And for anyone just thinking Rafa should sign his contract, you’re wrong. He wants what all the fans want – success on the pitch. He doesn’t care about anything else – and that’s what we want right? So if he’s holding out to have more say – he’s sticking his neck out for all the supporters. Just remember that. The board can sack him whenever they want. So he just wants the right pieces in place for him to do his job – I commend him.

And for all those suggesting the icing on the cake would be new owners – be careful what you ask for. I think all of us would have preferred DIC to the Americans. But do you want the yanks to sell this club at a huge profit and walk away? That means more debt on the club, rising prices, less money for transfers (as we get even bigger interest payments) – lets get real there is no sugar daddy coming along who is going to pay in cash and not want a return to equal the investment(we can hope!).

Perhaps the best we can hope for is if Rafa is on good terms with Hicks, Gillette leaves and Hicks gets an investor in that enables us to move forward with the stadium. And lets hope a new Chief Exec can get our club more commercial! We need it to compete. Look at the likes of Aston Villa creeping up on us… And to all those fans prioritising the league, the league, the league… yeah we’d all love it but its not realistic – the money is in the Champions League. For now it has to be the priority(sorry but it’s true). We need that cash more than Manure, Chelski or Arsenal. That’s the reality – it’s a business.

Credit to Rafa we are competing with Manure and Chelski. We have nothing like the squads they do – and we’re still up there fighting… but don’t be under any illusions about the priorities… its about cash. So is Rick Parry leaving a good thing? Who knows, but I wouldn’t be celebrating just yet…

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