Liverpool Chief Exec Parry To Leave Club

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Category: Sports. Tags: English Premier League, Liverpool FC, Rafael Benitez, Rick Parry.

Liverpool chief exec Parry to leave club Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry is to leave his post at the end of the season, clearing the way for manager Rafael Benitez to sign a new contract, reports said on Friday.

Parry’s departure, the latest twist in the boardroom unrest at Liverpool, is expected to be announced officially later in the day, the BBC and other media said.

Benitez has been refusing to sign a new contract because he wants more control over the club’s transfer policy.

Parry has had a strained relationship with Benitez and the club’s American co-owner Tom Hicks, but in November he pledged to stay at Anfield after he was linked with a senior job in the English Football Association’s 2018 World Cup bid.

The departure of Parry is likely to take Benitez closer to finally signing a new contract and ending speculation that Real Madrid might try to lure him back to his native Spain, the reports said.

Parry is a former chief executive of the Premier League who joined Liverpool in 1998.