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Crisis at Cardiff
With Cardiff City in crisis and Mark Hughes taking on the Blackburn managership, what effect will this have on Paul Parry?
Cardiff City are bottom but one of the Coca-Cola League Championship. They recently sold Rob Earnshaw to West Bromwich for around £3 million, but are known to be well over £20 million in debt. The Bluebird's gates have fallen with only just over 10,000 spectators watching the game against Watford on Tuesday evening when Cardiff were defeated 3-0.
Lennie Lawrence, who tracked Paul Parry for several weeks before making a reasonable offer to Hereford United for the winger, is thought to be on his way out of Ninian Park unless results very quickly improve.
Cardiff fans are asking for a replacement for Earnshaw but there are no signs of anyone being lined up as yet. Sam Hamman, the owner of the club, appears short of liquid funds. Although his club is hoping to move to a new stadium in a year or two, the problems with funding the project couldn't have come at a worse time.
Meanwhile Mark Hughes, who brought Paul Parry into the Welsh squad, will only be in charge of the Welsh team for two more games. Parry may be lucky to make it onto the bench as the vast majority of the top Welsh players won't want to miss the games against England and Poland.
Nevertheless, Hughes praised after his early appearances for the Welsh team.
Parry first played for Wales against Scotland on February 18th.
Talking after the match to BBC Wales, manager Mark Hughes said: "It was a great introduction. He looked very comfortable out there. I saw him at the weekend and he played very well so I didn't have a problem putting him in tonight. It was a little bit earlier than I thought, but he did very well.
"He is a tough lad, I have seen that. But I wanted to know whether he has the mentality for this higher stage, and he showed he did.
"He surprised me. He is a young man with no real experience in professional football and he showed skill and confidence out there in front of 47,000 people.
"He showed me he could make the step up and I was delighted with him. It's some big jump from the Conference, but he has certainly given me an extra option."
It already been suggested that Hughes could do worse that try to take Parry to join him at Blackburn. If that happened it has been reported that Hereford United would receive 10% of any deal.
Whether Parry would want to leave Cardiff City is another matter, but when a club is in trouble players are often sold to make ends meet.
That used to happen at Hereford United. It doesn't now thanks to prudent financial management.