A quick summary of last week. We’re all set to sign a player, the team is playing well and Rafa is happy. Enter stage left Parry, Gilette and Hicks to spoil the party by refusing to stump up the cash for Barry. So inevitably we now have disharmony between manager and board and what little confidence we’ve managed to muster as fans stripped bare all over again.
Oh and look here’s news of Rafa’s potential resignation (or in this case a denial of it). I give it a week before one of the tabloid’s publishes a story about DIC launching a new takeover bid.
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Now it’s dead in the water, I feel genuinely embarrassed by how the club handled the entire Barry affair. Hopefully all Villains will welcome him back with open arms. It seems the majority of Liverpool fans didn’t want him anyway, so he’s surely better off at a club where he’s a living legend than as a squad player at a club run by the three stooges.
(Karl Eisenhauer)
You’ve hit the nail on the head there. Agree completely. The sooner the yanks sell up the better, as far as I am concerned.
I’m just worried that this is going to spin on all season long again, as United coast towards number 18. There’s a rotten core within our club at the moment and it needs removing. I’ve read a quote from Benitez today that Hicks has told him the money is there to sign Barry, but tellingly he’s had no response from Parry and Gilette. What’s so fucked up about this whole situation is that Hicks has always come across as the worse of the two. Yet now he’s the one siding with Rafa.
I wish Parry would just fuck off to be honest. I realise if you just sign blank cheques for a manager Risdale/O’ Leary style then it’ll end in tears, but I’d take Rafa’s opinion of a player over Rick Parry’s anyday of the week.
I am not too sure who is the bad guy at the moment. One day its Hicks, the other its Gilette. They are both as bad as each other in my opinion. The same with Parry. It is a shame but that’s what happens in football nowadays it seems.
Why can’t it just be about the game?