The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[bingobus]

20m is too much for a 28 year old. I could live with 13-15m but not 20m for a central midfielder who is prob in the same bracket as the players we have there already.

Call Villa's bluff and move on. Its no wonder teams go to Europe for players, English players are massively overpriced.

[corn02]

Put it l;ike this, it is just £5 less than David Villa's price tag.

[Uladh]

Call Villa's bluff and move on.

I think you are forgetting that villa do not want to sell and will only do so if they can get extortionate money for him, no matter how much he cries about it. they'll get him for £16/17m

[Minder]

Call Villa's bluff and move on.

I think you are forgetting that villa do not want to sell and will only do so if they can get extortionate money for him, no matter how much he cries about it. they'll get him for £16/17m

Perhaps Villa will let him "sit in the stands" rather than sell him Uladh.....

[GalwayBayBoy]

Put it l;ike this, it is just £5 less than David Villa's price tag.

Be better off keeping Alonso and spending the money on Villa.

[Uladh]

Call Villa's bluff and move on.

I think you are forgetting that villa do not want to sell and will only do so if they can get extortionate money for him, no matter how much he cries about it. they'll get him for £16/17m

Perhaps Villa will let him "sit in the stands" rather than sell him Uladh.....

No but they'll be happy enough to just have him keep playing for Villa. "They rate you gareth but not enough to meet our valuation"

[Hound]

yea, I read that report earlier. Just more rubbish to make headlines in my opinion. Not one quote from Rafa in the whole article, says it all for me. And yet the Headline says "Rafa want spanish villa with pool". 

But they forgot something?

Who, on the bench, did Villa run to when he scored his hat-trick?
Torres

Who grabbed the match ball off the ref at the end of the game to give to Villa?
Reina

Its in the bag!  

As for Carra, yes he is the heart and soul of the team. But he made a large amount of defenisve mistakes last year, some cost us, some didnt, and some the ref missed, but nonetheless he made them. If Agger gets properly back, and if the Skirt progresses as he should, it will be a short time before Carragher is the third best centre back at the club. It will still be very tough to drop him....

[J70]

20 million is a joke for Barry. It will be a grim summer if Liverpool spend their entire transfer budget on Barry and a couple of unknowns like Dossena and that Swiss boy. If O'Neill wants to hold on to him that badly, then Benitez should move on. He's not worth it. Liverpool need a two or three top-class players, either of Torres standard or at least with real potential like Babel, not more bargain-basement dross or overpriced English players.

[stevo-08]

totally agree. 20m is an absolute joke valuation. 15m is even too expensive, that'd go along way towards buying a quality player from the continent. Feel a bit sorry for Barry who obviously wants to play for Liverpool but he just aint worth that money. Time to move on.

[el_cuervo_fc]

What paper is it from?

My back four would be the same as Stifflers. But if Skert; continue his, in my eyes,  very good progress. I could live with Carra at RB.

Not sure if it was in any paper but I read it on teamtalk.com. Is that where you got it from el cuervo?

Yeah i got it from team talk.  Pile of crap no doubt.

On the issue of Barry, O'Neill is just acting like a spoilt child.  He's taking the Huff over the whole situation.  On the BBC this morning it was saying the second offer was for around £13 million.  That's about right for him, £15 mllion is a bit of a stretch though.  I'd still like to see him in a liverpool shirt at the start of the season, but if Villa are gonna keep on the way they're acting then Rafa should concentrate his efforts somewhere else.

[el_cuervo_fc]

From the Daily Mirror

Martin O'Neil refuses to talk to Rafael Benitez over Barry row

Martin O'Neill has angrily broken off all contact with Liverpool after becoming infuriated by their dogged pursuit of Aston Villa skipper Gareth Barry.

The Villa boss is refusing to acknowledge attempts by Reds manager Rafa Benitez and chief executive Rick Parry to enter into any dialogue over Barry.

Liverpool only learned their third bid of £13m for the midfielder had been rejected yesterday through a curt fax.

O'Neill, usually so hands-on, has instructed Villa owner Randy Lerner's PA Paul Faulkner to field all communications from Anfield.

His stubborn tactics have left Liverpool officials exasperated as they hoped to finally buy Barry, 27, this week. And the star himself is getting increasingly despondent at the failure of the two clubs to resolve his future after he made it clear to O'Neill he wanted to go.

Liverpool are now reluctant to table a new bid for Barry while they have no insight into what O'Neill will accept for the versatile left-sided player.

And the ill-feeling at Villa - sparked by Benitez making public Liverpool's initial £10m offer for Barry on the eve of the penultimate game of the season - has only increased.

O'Neill has since slammed the Reds' Spanish manager in a tirade and even dropped Villa's former Liverpool midfielder Patrik Berger for recommending that Barry moves to his old club.

O'Neill is now trying to concentrate his energies on strengthening his squad as they kick-off their InterToto Cup campaign in five weeks.

Brazilian midfielder Paulo Assuncao, 28, who has bought out the final year of his contract at Porto, is a target.

[stiffler]

Let Villa keep a player who doesnt want to play for them next season.

In my opinion, Barry over Alonso would improve the squad a little, but not enough to warrant the extra £6million or whatever from the transfer kitty.

Now my targets are as follows:

David Villa
A right winger, with pace and who can cross a ball

Players to go:

Finnan (surplus to requirements)
Crouch (need to sell to finance Villa)
Carson (Wants 1st team football)
Voronin (Renford Rejects are after him)
Pennant (just aint good enough)
Riise (been awful last 18months)

This may leave the squad light in a few places, but there is plenty of talent in the reserve squad to step up to the challenge. I would say that some of the younger players are better than the current squad fillers anyway.

[glens73]

Let Villa keep a player who doesnt want to play for them next season.

In my opinion, Barry over Alonso would improve the squad a little, but not enough to warrant the extra £6million or whatever from the transfer kitty.

Now my targets are as follows:

David Villa
A right winger, with pace and who can cross a ball

Players to go:

Finnan (surplus to requirements)
Crouch (need to sell to finance Villa)
Carson (Wants 1st team football)
Voronin (Renford Rejects are after him)
Pennant (just aint good enough)
Riise (been awful last 18months)

This may leave the squad light in a few places, but there is plenty of talent in the reserve squad to step up to the challenge. I would say that some of the younger players are better than the current squad fillers anyway.

David Villa is not a right winger, he is a striker (got a hat trick the other day for Spain v Russia). He would be a great asset for Liverpool and would settle well with Torres but I'd say his price will be sky high after the other day.

[stiffler]

Let Villa keep a player who doesnt want to play for them next season.

In my opinion, Barry over Alonso would improve the squad a little, but not enough to warrant the extra £6million or whatever from the transfer kitty.

Now my targets are as follows:

David Villa
A right winger, with pace and who can cross a ball

Players to go:

Finnan (surplus to requirements)
Crouch (need to sell to finance Villa)
Carson (Wants 1st team football)
Voronin (Renford Rejects are after him)
Pennant (just aint good enough)
Riise (been awful last 18months)

This may leave the squad light in a few places, but there is plenty of talent in the reserve squad to step up to the challenge. I would say that some of the younger players are better than the current squad fillers anyway.

David Villa is not a right winger, he is a striker (got a hat trick the other day for Spain v Russia). He would be a great asset for Liverpool and would settle well with Torres but I'd say his price will be sky high after the other day.

I think I know that, that why i said my targets are as follows.

I want Liverpool to sign David Villa for up front and a right winger to compete with Dirk Kuyt for that position. Unless Chelsea go in for him, he wont cost more than £25 million.

[corn02]

Ha, must say I was with Glens boyo there when misreading that.