Rick Parry Quotations

There has never been a split between us and Rafa over Michael Owen or any other player. It's not a no or a yes. There has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

There has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

One of the concerns I have is that cities should not be in the business of business. That is a move toward socialism and America is not a socialist country.

Why on earth would we do that? It is a sign of the times that they can even contemplate such a move for a player we have just spent a record transfer fee on.

We've cleared all of that and I don't think it will happen again,

I've never known a transfer happen quite so quickly. It was all done within 24 hours, and that was largely because of Robbie's passion to rejoin the club. He really was that desperate to come back.

There's probably been too much speculation already. We will see next week. There has never been a split between us and Rafa over Michael Owen or any other player.

There's some work to do and it's a few days before the deadline, so we'll see.

Looking at the 12 months, there's no question we've improved. We don't really talk about winning the title. It's somewhere we want to get to but what we're not going to do is impose unrealistic targets or deadlines. It's about working tirelessly to improve. If we do the right things and keep working, the results will follow and we'll achieve success. That's what happened in the Champions League. Talking about titles is certainly premature and it's not really our way.

We were interested. There was not a lack of co-operation from us. But the filmmakers got sponsorship from Adidas - not Reebok. And Adidas sponsor Newcastle, while Reebok sponsor Liverpool.