Parry says Owen deal would have been unrealistic

Rick Parry has put the failure to sign Owen behind him. Instead he has focussed on the contribution of the players purchased with funds from his sale:
"Life goes on. We were interested, of course, but the deal didn't make sense," Parry admitted."That one is history and we move on."
"With the resources from the Michael deal we were able to bring in Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia who both played an integral part in the Champions League,""There is no time in football for looking backwards. Would we swap winning the Champions League in Istanbul for anything else? Absolutely not.""Winning the Premier League is a key target for us. We are not putting a timescale on that but our objective is to do better this year (in the league) than we did last year," said Parry."We want to win. This club exists to win silverware. Resources do come into that but I would dread the day if we ever felt we couldn't compete for trophies."I am sure it would never come."
I know the price of Owen was beyond our budget however you have to wonder if we would still be struggling to score if Owen had rejoined.
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