trouble at the helm
Just when Liverpool gets an all-important crack at a Champions League title, club honcho Tom Hicks decided this is the perfect time to kick out CEO Rick Parry. Club owners Hicks and George Gillett haven’t exactly been the best of pals lately and now this. Sheesh dude, is this really the best time to do this?
One of the supposed criticisms against Parry is that he hasn’t been very aggressive in the signing of players, which I agree with to a point. Darn, we should have gotten Theo Walcott. The kid was already a Reds fan to begin with! Why the heck did he end up in Arsenal?!
But the thing is, this is not the best time for top management infighting. Newsflash kids, we’re in a crucial campaign for a European title here. Wait until June at least before you rip each other’s heads off.
quite agree that it’s a most bizarre piece of timing but these american owners show no evidence of sense or logic or sensitvity. just incredible. more thoughts back at the blog
pp
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FPB
April 11, 2008 at 3:11 pm
thanks for visiting pp. makes me wonder what happened to that plan of liverpool fans buying the club. with all the chaos these guys are causing, the member-share scheme is starting to sound like a good idea. there’s still DIC but they seem to like Hicks well enough to let him have controlling share of the club. i just wish these bickering owners would stop hogging the headlines already. it’s sickening.
warthogatlarge
April 12, 2008 at 7:17 pm
i haven’t heard much about the scheme either recently. i suspect there’s a lot of interest but the sums involved are probably too huge to realistically be funded by fans alone. i wish there was a rule/law denying overseas entities from owning british fottball clubs
pp
FPB
April 15, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Well, I wouldn’t exactly go that far. The other big clubs in the Premier League such as United and Chelsea are owned by foreigners as well but they don’t have this kind of wrangling going on. I guess it’s a matter of having a good business partnership, which Hicks and Gillett sorely lack. And I don’t think it has anything to do with their being Americans really. They just happen to be a couple of immature idiots who can’t manage to resolve their conflicts peacefully, that’s all.
warthogatlarge
April 15, 2008 at 3:25 pm
i bet you whal that every genuine man u supporter would prefer, given a choice, not to have the glazers load the club with £m’s of debt whilst repatriating all profits back to the USA. similarly i reckon chelski fans have enjoyed theinvestmnet which has resulted in success – no question – but if roman abram gets fed up and departs, they’d be bankrupt in days.
surely both situations are disastrous potentially for the individual clubs. at liverpool the problems are just being exposed because it’s two joint owners, who’ve fallen out. it’ll be man u tomorrow and chelsea soon afterwards.
cynical pp
FPB
April 18, 2008 at 3:24 am
you sure are optimistic pp. :-p
i think it’s safe to say that foreign owners don’t hold a monopoly on mismanagement. to be clear though, i’m not British so i don’t see it from a nationalistic perspective (such as to what country the profits are ultimately going).
warthogatlarge
April 19, 2008 at 11:37 am