Villa captain Barry told to sign for Liverpool - by his own team-mate

[RedinSweden]

Liverpool make a bid, O'Neill tells the press and we are unsettling him? How the fuck does he work that one out? I am fairly neutral towards O'Neill but he is starting to piss me off with this victim shit. If Villa hadn't fucked up their chances, they might be a shoe-in for UEFA. Cunts. I bet they have it handed to them on a platter this weekend and choke.

[Xabi D]

Originally Posted by hamstrung

I don't want to and you can't make me.

Your the one who asked to hear Guillem "relay the information"

[El Rojo]

Originally Posted by RedinSweden

Liverpool make a bid, O'Neill tells the press and we are unsettling him? How the fuck does he work that one out? I am fairly neutral towards O'Neill but he is starting to piss me off with this victim shit. If Villa hadn't fucked up their chances, they might be a shoe-in for UEFA. Cunts. I bet they have it handed to them on a platter this weekend and choke.

I think he had a fair point about our approach being shabby though, and the clear leak to the Echo.

[hamstrung]

Originally Posted by Xabi D

Your the one who asked to hear Guillem "relay the information"

No I didn't. It was a jokey comment on Ballague's reliability.

[moxter]

O'Neill said something along the lines of "Of course he's worth more than £10m. He plays for England."

So do Jermaine Jenas, Peter Crouch and Phil Neville, but they're barely worth £10m combined.

[Nerik]

Then straight swap for Carson it is Mr. O'Neill seeing that playing for England means you get to be worth over 10m.

[bobhorse]

Barry is Villa's captain his move has to be handled correctly and will end with the player coming out and requesting to leave

O'Neil knows already the outcome of all this and has to be seen to do everything he can to want to keep the player and not look like a selling club

nothing happening here that you wouldnt expect to

[shanks59]

So Carson + Crouch = Barry + Young

[Stu Monty]

It's a story about nothing really isn't it? It's a bloke serving his notice being asked to go a week early for not giving a fuck about the employer he's leaving. He was hardly even a Villa player anymore as it's blatantly obvious that at 6.00pm on Sunday he'd be seeing the team for the last time.

Sacked?

Behave.

[Rashid]

maybe not sacked but shamefully told to leave early. What he did was a disgrace too...

[RoboRiise]

Originally Posted by NIred1

Now that just about sums up the difficult nature of the transfer market. Playing for England? so fucking what. O'Neil is beginning to sound like a senile old git. You only have to look at some of the England side to see how much of a joke that is.

Ashley Young has only played twice for England. Shall we say £8m Martin, maybe £20m the pair?

[Stu Monty]

It wasn't very polite but if he'd waited seven days it would have been:

"Former red says Barry needs to move for career".

He's a Villa player in name only, after all. It's the bloke in his last week not bothering to do any work and chatting up birds instead of doing that photocopying, that's what it is.

[Stu Monty]

I like Martin O'Niell but he really needs to pick his fights better; you can't go head-to-head if there's a hair-quality dissproportion of that magnitude. It's going to end in tears.

[MLB]

We'll meet halfway and the deal will go through within the next two weeks, I reckon.

[Trucker Paddy]

If we do get Barry, will that be the end for Xabi?

[Red Nick]

Originally Posted by Trucker Paddy

If we do get Barry, will that be the end for Xabi?

If its not Id want Rafa´s head on a plate but I am prepared to wait till the beginning of the season before blowing a gasket

[Ted]

Originally Posted by Red Nick

If its not Id want Rafa´s head on a plate but I am prepared to wait till the beginning of the season before blowing a gasket

Stop being a mong.

In fact. Neg.

[Alias75]

Don't think its a coincidence that Crouch all of a sudden has been valued at £15 million by Rafa. If Villa are going to overvalue Barry then Rafa will overvalue a player they probably want in exchange.

The truth is if Barry wants to leave its very difficult for Villa to do anything about it. They can keep him for another year and then lose him for probably half what they can get now.

Personally i think Villa want Crouch and we'll end up swapping Crouch for Barry and giving Villa a few million.

[Red Sun Rising]

Just imagine in a (not so unimaginable parallel universe) that our two arsehole 50/50 owners had decided to ditch Rafa this summer.

One of their ever so helpful PR dweebs leaks it to the Echo that O'Neal is their #1 choice as his replacement, prompting us to make an official approach...and O’Neal’s reaction would be “I have loved my time at Villa and it’s a very difficult decision but, as Paddy Berger said to me, it’s Liverpool, no one turns down a chance like that”

[RedBrian84]

Originally Posted by Paul14

O'Neil has come out and attacked Rafa over his latest comments, what a fucking idiot. He's lost the plot and has the cheek to criticise the way we conduct our business.

I can see your point but I think he's just trying to appease his own fans, the same as any manager would do in the same circumstances- you have to defend your own side. So what if he has a pop at us, he can join the long line of people doing exactly the same thing.