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by **Ciggy** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:42 am

Fuck Barry off go for Michael Johnson or rafa Van Der Vaart both younger and better players and wouldnt cost 20 million.

by **Rafa D** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:48 am

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Rafa should play hardball. Gareth can buy out his contract as he only has 2 years left. Even if he is on £50,000 a week thats £5,200,000 to buy himself out. I doubt Barry will want to do this to the club and I heard most top clubs have agreed not to do this to each other BUT...

If O'neil insists to play silly games, Barry should at least threaten to do this. It's his chance to join a club that competes for trophies season in , season out. He has been a great servant for Villa and £10m is plenty.

This is what Barry should DEFINITLY DO NOW.

by **Owzat** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:04 pm

O'Squeall wants a reality check, anything over £10m is a pretty good offer and his poxy squad needs numbers not (moderate) strength. Some villa fan was going on about them only using 18 or so players last season, then again if he signs some rubbish and some good players then he's as likely to waste the £10m as make most of it.

I was under the impression we're a bit short on funds, why then is Rafa playing silly beggars by throwing money at one over-rated player? If we do sign Barny then I'd be interested what percentage of our summer spending he will make up. Even if we spend £45m, spending £15m on someone that over-rated would be stupidity.

by **el_stinger** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:14 pm

Not for 20 mil!!! Screw that!!

by **el_stinger** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:19 pm

No way, at 29, with only a solid 2 years behind his footballing career, is this guy worth 20 odd mill. NO WAY!!! I wouldn't by him for 8 mill, and yet you want Xabi to leave for cheaper? Xabi is by far the better player, albeit he had a disappointing 2 seasons, but he's always come good. I think with Mascha next to him, Xabi will return to being the World Class player he is. Barry is going to fade away, and at that price tag, there is no way he will be able to adjust to it the way Torres has. Spend the money on Villa, Fernando and David seem to play fantastic football together.

by **puroresu** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:20 pm

forget Barry. We need better players than him. His not as good as Alonso. Crazy money for someone who aint really going to get any better

by **Owzat** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:27 pm

If we could sell Alonso, buy Barny and have a profit then I'd be all for it. What we're now facing is Rafa setting his heart on this transfer and being robbed blind. I thought Rafa had more sense, he backed out of preferred targets before as the prices were prohibitive, but how many English players are worth £10m+ ? Maybe O'Squeall figures other English players cost £10m+ so therefore Barny should.

And for want of wishing to repeat myself, we don't need a central midfielder as a priority anyway so why splash out a large sum when it is needed elsewhere? We certainly didn't fall short in the Premiership due to lacking central midfielders, wingers, strikers and consistent solid defending yes.

by **el_stinger** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:28 pm

Rafa-Dodd wrote:
Rafa-Dodd wrote:Rafa should play hardball. Gareth can buy out his contract as he only has 2 years left. Even if he is on £50,000 a week thats £5,200,000 to buy himself out. I doubt Barry will want to do this to the club and I heard most top clubs have agreed not to do this to each other BUT...

If O'neil insists to play silly games, Barry should at least threaten to do this. It's his chance to join a club that competes for trophies season in , season out. He has been a great servant for Villa and £10m is plenty.

This is what Barry should DEFINITLY DO NOW.

This is what Crouch is doing now....

by **puroresu** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:29 pm

Rush Job wrote:Just a few things, Barry is world class, he's captained England ( friendly but none the less ) and scored, in the game before he put in a beautiful pass to set up Gerrard to score, he'll improve us in the prem, he's as comfortable in 3 different possitions 4 if you add wing back and playing anyone of those roles will score more and add more threat than Xabi Alonso in the prem. To me it shows rafa is thinking more about the prem and Barry will defiantly improve us in that comp. Depending on who else comes in i think we'll see him a lot on the left wing with an attack minded fullback ( Dossena, Insua ) behind.

V the mighty USA and Trinidad and Tobago. World class gets mentioned far to much these days. Barry isnt world class. He has never played at CL level and never even really played at the top end of international level. He played against croatia and was chasing shadows all night. Modric is better value for money than Barry.

by **redsince2001** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:33 pm

15m is more than enuf ... 18m ?? wtf for ? ! :angry:

walk away now ....... ! :angry:

by **redsince2001** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:40 pm

BARRY BID WORTH ONLY £13M?
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Deadly Doug Ellis has urged Liverpool to "dig deep" for Gareth Barry because they will not sell for anything less than £15m.

The Reds faxed over a second offer for the England midfielder on Wednesday night, but it reportedly falls short of the asking price.

The Birmingham Evening Mail claims that the second bid was for only £13m - just £1m more than the first offer.

A club statement reads: "The offer was a slight improvement on a previous bid but our position on the issue remains unchanged and Liverpool have been informed."

Doug Ellis said: "If he goes, and I fear he will as Steven Gerrard has been begging him - right now I wouldn't sell him for less than £15million.

"If I was advising Liverpool, I would say: 'dig deep' because he is such a good asset. It will be a big loss and I would fight like hell to keep him, but of course I am no longer there."

Liverpool look set to receive £14.2m from Juventus for Xabi Alonso and Villa want more than that for his replacement, with moves for Steve Sidwell and Tom Huddlestone on the cards.

by **redsince2001** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:41 pm

sorry..double posted

by **XSD** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:45 pm

SkySports:

Aston Villa have turned down Liverpool's latest bid to sign midfielder Gareth Barry.

Barry has emerged as Liverpool's leading transfer target of the summer, and they have already had one bid rejected by their Premier League rivals.

However, Villa have confirmed that The Reds stepped up their interest on Wednesday evening only to have their second approach rebuffed once more.

A Villa spokesman said on the club's official website: "The offer was a slight improvement on a previous bid but our position on the issue remains unchanged and Liverpool have been informed."

The latest offer is reportedly in the region of £15million, but rumours claim Villa boss Martin O'Neill is holding out for a fee of £20million.

That's ridiculous if the last sentence is true. We certainly shouldn't be paying more for Barry than we get for Alonso, and 20m is unthinkable.

by **Ciggy** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:46 pm

Duno about sending faxes to Aston Villa with offers when we should be sending faxes to david Villa with an offer.

by **The Manhattan Project** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:48 pm

13M is excessive IMO.

I think it's come to the point where Villa will either hold us to an absurd asking price or refuse to sell to us out of spite.

I say fook it. Let's go for someone else.

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