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Bet they won't get the media backlash like we have at times. I agree with them though, fuck him. Hope Barry is straight on the phone to Benitez and Gerrard tonight though. You can't treat a club like Villa the way they have done. They've helped to make his position untenable at Villa now and he'll get pelters home and away for the foreseeable. Good. I'm going to watch our Intertoto match against Odense tomorrow (I expect us to go out, incidentally). Here's a few predictions. 1. Barry will play. 2. Barry will get booed by about 30 percent of the crowd. 3. He'll play well and the booing will stop. 4. Sunday morning, the press will be full of "OMG! Barry Boo Hell!!!" nonsense, when nothing of the sort has happened.

And another thing. Why does "He's a Spurs fan !!!111!!!!" always crop up in this kind of discussion?

Honestly, Barry to Spurs ... Jesus Christ. That suggestion was posted on glory-glory this afternoon and all of a sudden it has become "OMFG! Barry for Kaboul and some cash!!!!" Barry wants to leave for CL football. He's made that quite clear. He wants to play with Gerrard. Why on earth would he then wash up at Spurs? If he goes to Spurs, I will film myself gnawing off my own arm and swallowing it whole, then post it here.

Please. God. No.

It is insane, though isn't it, the very concept of these "loyalty" clauses. I do feel that football is eventually going to eat itself and then choke to death. It must surely end in tears at some point relatively soon?

Afar I scrolled past both of your posts. Just so you know. x

Thanks, Spence, I forgot about that bit. That sticks in my craw. "This is my dream move, don't deny me it", well ask for a transfer, you money grabbing twat, or isn't it really your dream? Footballers all over, that.

Right, I've calmed down a bit now, so on to Barry. I wasn't there last night, but I know a few people who were there. The general consensus was that 40 percent booed him at the start, 40 percent clapped him, and 20 percent did nothing. The booing totally stopped towards the end of his shift when he'd played a few good passes, and you could see he was geeing up the kids (it was practically a youth team) he was playing with. My take on Barry is that he's a very good player I'd prefer to keep. My take on the loyalty thing is that his agents have been hawking him around since the end of last year. In fact, he was widely considered to be on his way to Chelsea until relatively recently. He's been with us 10 years, but those years include a decent spell of time where he hardly got a look in. He also asked to leave twice before, incidentally. MON persuaded him to stay, said he'd get him in the England team. We called for him to get the call up for a long, long time. Then he does, and lo and behold, MON was right, he got it, and is practically a regular. So what happens then? He demands his move the first chance he gets, slags the manager off in the press, throws his toys out of the pram and acts like a primadonna. Can any of you say you'd really feel any different if he were a Newcastle player acting like that? I don't think you would. Not even Afar. There's been very little surprising about the whole affair, really. He wants to go, he can go. But he goes on our terms. SOme people arent happy about it, some are less bothered. Simple as that, really.

Selling Johnson and buying Bent for not much more = excellent bit of business, I reckon

You're a very, very silly man indeed, mate. I'm in my late 30s and have been supporting us since I was 5. In that time I've seen us win one European Cup, one league title, one European Super Cup, and four league cups. Your turn. How many trophies have Liverpool won in the same time? As much as I hate Liverpool, if it was a choice of Villa or them, I'd join them every time. Guaranteed top 4 finish every year, and a real push at trying to win the league. Villa have no chance of that I'm afraid. I'm not passing comment on his desire to go to Liverpool, or on Liverpool's history in the same time. I'm passing comment on that tit afar's description of Villa as a "nothing club". He's said a few times he has a problem with me being here, and he's doing it specifically to wind me up, get me to react and get me banned. I've pointed out the irony of him describing Villa as a "nothing club". If calling him a tit gets me banned, then fair enough, he's won. And here we go once again - Afar, you're a tit. A brainless, witless tit, in fact.

You're a very, very silly man indeed, mate. I'm in my late 30s and have been supporting us since I was 5. In that time I've seen us win one European Cup, one league title, one European Super Cup, and four league cups. Your turn.

Most Villa fans want him to leave tbh. In fact, MON isn't even that bothered - he just wants to get a huge fee for him. the thing is, that he could go on a free end of the season, so 18 million is far too much He's got two years left on his contract

Sadly, we've been linked with both of them. pair kaboul with zat knght and you're we're lauging Zat did alright last season. True fact. As for Harry, if he told me the earth was round, I'd check it out on wikipedia.

Sadly, we've been linked with both of them.

I remember when he had his fall in the bath and became a quadri-spazzed. Noelle Gordon was a season ticket holder at the Villa.

Just signed a new 4 year contact with Racing Club Sphincter.

Please, Christ, no.

Was he talking about Crouch?

Villa said to have had bid for Zigic accepted by Valencia. I know nothing about him (don't do FM) other than he is huge. So I'll nod my head appreciatively.

We're after every right back in the world, or have been at some point, he just seems to have a mental block on fucking well buying one. Great manager, but so fucking frustrating.

Martin. BUY A FUCKING RIGHT BACK.

Thursday I was watching SSN and they breathlessly reported "Manchester United have made an offer for a player". No hint as to the player or anything. Absurd.

Away from home? Yep.

Villa 1 up in our Intertoto game after 6 mins. Carew.

So "delusional" he will end up with both the players he has so called "done it" to this window. The issue being with Benitez that he hasn't actually got the money to buy the players he wants, so he has to resort to this kind of behaviour to put Spurs and Villa in an untenable position.