With the expected £65m investment in the club from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, there will be a big transfer kitty for next season and there's only one way the club can go, so there will be plenty of willing applicants for the vacant post.
"Who is most likely to make us become challengers," said Parry. "Track record will be important, but that's not to say that they must have managed in the Champions League or we'd be ruling out any English contenders. We want to see someone who has a passion for success."
"It's about getting closer to success and getting the fans believing we're closer. We're in the Champions League, but that was always a minimum standard rather than a goal in itself. In points' terms, this season has been worse than Roy Evans's final season back in 1998.
"That puts it into perspective, but it was still a decision made with the head rather than the heart. We asked ourselves whether we felt we would be challenging for the title next season without a change. The bottom line is that we didn't feel we would. A change was necessary.
"If we had lost the first two games of next season, it would have been intolerable. Geérard himself acknowledged that much."