Alberto2005

"Krancjar, favoured left foot, I fancied him" Shows how idiotic these commentators are.

England regular. Don't English players cost a lot of money? We've no need to sell and Liverpool have behaved disgracefully throughout this sage, so I suspect MON is determined to make it as difficult and expensive as he possibly can. I don't blame MON at all but I cannot see Pool bettering that offer, then its back down and sell him or put up with an unhappy player. If Carrick and Hargreaves are worth £18m then Barry is worth at least £20m in my view. I wouldn't say Barry is better than either of them, especially Carrick. Barry is worth what we will accept for him. We've got to go out and find a replacement, which - as we're not in the CL - is going to be difficult (a decent replacement, anyway). We've already got a miniscule squad, so losing one of our best players is the last thing we need. That doesn't mean Barry is worth 20m or better than Player A or Player B, but there is the value of the player and the fact we're selling him to a team we're trying to catch up (and one which seemingly has a lot of problems so may become catchable at some point). I'm glad MON is playing hardball, he's saying "this is how much we need him, this is how much you're going to have to give us for him if you want him, don't want to pay it? Fuck off elsewhere". In the past we'd have bent over at the first offer and let them have him. Not disagreeing with Villa's valuation of him, he's obviously a key player in your team but out of the three midfielders mentioned I'd say he was the weakest.

England regular. Don't English players cost a lot of money? We've no need to sell and Liverpool have behaved disgracefully throughout this sage, so I suspect MON is determined to make it as difficult and expensive as he possibly can. I don't blame MON at all but I cannot see Pool bettering that offer, then its back down and sell him or put up with an unhappy player. If Carrick and Hargreaves are worth £18m then Barry is worth at least £20m in my view. I wouldn't say Barry is better than either of them, especially Carrick.

I doubt it. With seven subs next season, we currently can't fill 11 starting places and a full bench (assuming that fat arsed traitor fucks off to Liverpool) Bit harsh on Barry isn't it? No. People assume he's been here ages because he's turned down loads of chances to leave. Two years ago he was about to join Portsmouth, the only real bid we've ever had for him. He was on the verge of going. Then MON arrived, told him he'd make him an England regular (lest we forget, he was nowhere near the England side for five years), and lo and behold, he does just that. Last time I saw Barry playing, he was wearing an England shirt and a captain's armband. Then he gets the chance to leave and go and play with his bumfriend Gerrard, so we get the pathetic initial bid released to the press by Benitez, followed by Gerrard's disgraceful "please buy him, oh and by the way, no disrespect to Villa" bullshit, and then - worst of all - when we don't bend over and accept their first offer, Barry gets his agent to do the "please let him go, he needs CL football" routine in the media. He's treated us with no respect whatsoever, and at the first chance has decided to jump ship to the team we're allegedly trying to beat into the CL places. I don't often agree with the "player owes club" thing, but there is no doubt whatsoever that Barry at least allows us the dignity of not getting his agent to say those things in the media, at the very least. Do you know for a fact he did this? You know what agents are like. Secondly, with no disrespect to your lot because you're a very good side but the chances are you won't make the CL in the next 2 years at least whereas Liverpool are already in it and can potentially challenge the league, I'd find it tempting. He isn't a Villa fan either is he? So it is pretty understandable if he feels it's the right time to leave in the prime of his career.

I doubt it. With seven subs next season, we currently can't fill 11 starting places and a full bench (assuming that fat arsed traitor fucks off to Liverpool) Bit harsh on Barry isn't it?

David Rozehnal is a player with quite good technical ability with the ball but cannot defend one bit, so therefore he's useless.

Pwopa good in it, der is no chance ov uz gettin im na cuz uva teams will wnt him.

The stakes were just as high in this game, it was a game both teams had to win.

Phew.

Where are you getting 20/1? Ladbrokes.

Got a fiver on him for 1st goalscorer at 20/1.

Trophy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jun/11/premierleague.blackburn?gusrc=rss&feed=football

Do you think that based on this one euro 2008 game or is it that you have seen him play alot and if you have please say why you think that because I have no idea on this guy. Looks to be quite tall and unlike Crouch, has some physical power as well. Decent looking shot - wouldn't be surprised to see him making a name for himself in the future. Aye, and his performances against England were top notch also. Do you know which club he plays for James? Spartak Moscow.

Don't spend it all at once.

"Far better than Torres"

Servet.

Anyone who can play 30+ games in a season would be an upgrade on Emre.

Greedy bastards,4m is more than enough now they're in the Championship.

Was it just a bid mentioned or that they rejected aswell?

Nice one. Good to see ITV up to scratch with their laws of the game. I'm not the one getting paid for my valuable insight and professional accuracy though am I. True, still funny to see hypocrisy of the two posts

Nice one. Good to see ITV up to scratch with their laws of the game.

lol.. miles off... I can't believe it... but i think I really like Ruud.. the type of no nonsense striker that is missing in the game.

Nice one. Good to see ITV up to scratch with their laws of the game. Nothing new there. It never seizes to amaze me the way so many professional commentators and pundits on TV are shaky on the rules. No one else picked it up like did they?

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