I’ve often wondered why Rick Parry hasn’t made more of a concerted effort to admit his part in the traversty that became the Hicks and Gillett Muppett show. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but Hicks came with a lot of baggage and as Moores has since admitted they failed to do sufficient background checks before taking him on board just on Gilletts’ word.
Parry’s recent comments suggest that he sees the problem as essentially Hicks and Gillett failing to get on, he fails to mention as Moores cited in his letter to TheTimes the lack of due diligence over Hicks. He comments about Liverpool doing well during and up to the time he left the club, but what he fails to say/admit is that being the Liverpool owner means that you are the custodian of its past, as well as the planner of its future. The fact they failed miserably, caused a dramatic turndown not just on future prospects, but on LFC’s present. We lost Mascherano and Torres because our performances dipped and they could not see a light at the end of the tunnel and this is pure and simple down to Hicks and Gillett and thus de facto Moores and Parry.
That’s not to say that we should or can forget the honourable way Moores served our club, how he used his own money for transfer fees and how he ran the club with the pride and dignity which Kenny Dalglish has now brought back to the club.
Parry’s comments show an individual not recognising his failure in a disaster which almost brought the club to its knees and could see us out of Europe for the first time in years.
KP
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