Parry, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live‘s Sportsweek programme, claimed Liverpool’s fans cared about the club first and England second and their focus would remain on bringing success to Anfield.

But Parry also maintained that the club’s investment in its youth academy would continue.

Parry declared: “From our perspective, our target is winning trophies.

“Our supporters care about Liverpool first and England second and our job and focus is to bring glory to Liverpool.

“But at the same time we have invested as much, if not more, than just about any other club on our academy.

“We are still committed to the process. We will still continue to do our thing to develop young English players, we are very committed to that but the balance for us has to be winning things first.”

Parry was speaking after Liverpool concluded the takeover deal with American tycoons George Gillett and Tom Hicks.

The pair will become co-chairmen with Parry left to run the club and Liverpool chairman David Moores becoming an honorary life-president.

The tycoons beat off competition from Dubai International Capital and are believed to have guaranteed to invest more than £200m (€299.8m) in the club.

Parry admitted the conclusion of the deal was a huge relief and revealed that work on the new stadium at Stanley Park would be the first tangible signs of their financial muscle and expertise.

Parry said: “It is difficult to focus on the long-term plan when the whole issue of ownership and future direction is uncertain, so it is a huge relief.

“The debate was not on money at any stage it was about passion, it was about excitement and winning trophies, which for every Liverpool supporter, for everybody associated with the club, winning trophies is the only thing we think about.

“The reason they bought the club in the first place was the things that are special about Liverpool. The last thing they are going to do is spoil that.

“They are very honest and have been very straightforward. They don’t pretend to be lifelong fans, there is nothing bogus about it.

“Of course they have been reading up on the history of the club and very quickly got an appreciation of the fans and the atmosphere.

“They don’t pretend to understand it inside out which is why it is so important to them that David Moores is staying on board as life-president and a member of the board.

“One word that featured from them was continuity. They are not about to come in and change things for the sake of change.

“I have every confidence the strengths of the club will remain and don’t let us forget that our supporters will not let things change.

“They will be very vocal and the new owners will get the message very quickly if they even attempt to overstep the mark.

“The most of obvious way of quantifying the impact is when the work starts on the new stadium which we anticipate being within the next few weeks.

“That in a sense was the biggest challenge for us from a financial perspective, it is a massively important project for the club, vital for our future and to boost our revenue streams.

“They know how to manage and develop stadiums, they can bring resource and expertise to bear. That will be the first tangible sign and in due course the signs we all hope to see are more silverware.”

Parry would not be drawn on the prospect of how much cash manager Rafael Benitez would be handed to spend on new players but he insisted the coach was also excited by the plans.

Parry added: “We are not going to reveal figures, that would be nonsensical.

“But clearly the message from the new owners is that they share our vision of winning, they have come in here to make us succeed and if we didn’t believe there was going to be money to take us to the next level, then we would not have done the deal.

“Rafa had to consider the approach from Real Madrid last summer, in his position it would be an appeal to both the heart and the head. It would be very tempting.

“We sat down for a day and we reaffirmed our commitment to making progress and to continuing to invest in the team and that was enough for him.

“From the day he arrived we told him we were on the lookout for investment and told him the ownership of the club was likely to change.

“He is excited about it. We believe it will be a major factor in reinforcing his view that he made the right decision last summer.”