Aston Villa News 24/7Writer: J P Fear 
Date:Friday June 2 2006
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Spurs Can Get Lost!
According to a report in the Daily Mail today, Villa are 'bracing themselves' for a £3.5million bid from Tottenham for left sided midfielder Gareth Barry.
Rubbish. Villa aren't bracing themselves for anything, let alone a bid of £3.5million for a player worth double that.
IF Villa were to sell Gareth Barry for a sum like that, I would send my season ticket back and that would be it for me. We might be a selling club these days but I don't think even our lot would be that stupid? £7million would surely be the bottom line and then we still shouldn't sell?
Barry, in my ever so humble opinion, was the main reason we stayed up last season, we can't afford to let him go if we want to do the same in the 2006/7 season and O'Leary knows it as Barry and Davis are apparently the two players he is insisting Villa keep.
Our latest poll coincides with this story with 46% of Villa fans who voted saying that Villa must not sell Gareth Barry. Full article: Click Here
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Have to admit thats a bit of a cheaky bid
huscarl
Amen to that Mr Fear..
10million is the only figure that should even be worthy of reading a fax from Spurs.
GaztonVilla
Get lost? Thats not very nice. ;) Come on, admit it, he is dying to come back to London and play for the team he supported as a kid. COYS.
White Hart
I think this is just paper talk but if he was sold for a rubbish sum like that, I'd return my season ticket in disgust. Trouble is I do fear that he might want to move to a club with ambition as careers are short and players like that should be playing in Europe.
The Fear
spurs always put in cheeky bids, 5 mill for van nist 2.5 for chimbonda then they spend 11 mill on a lazy russian, they can go screw themselves. Our future captain is staying put.
son_of_cher
If he wanted to leave, would you accept him being sold for £10 million?
GaztonVilla
Well if there one final thing that Ellis and DOL could do to annoy us even more this would be it....so dont rule it out!
Aronno7
Would you accept 3.5m plus Danny Murphy? There's another player who might keep you up next season.
hiano
I'm sorry but there is no way Barry is worth 10m! Then again, 3.5 is a tad cheeky. 5m would seem sensible to me, and as spurs fan I'd be happy with signing Barry.....
skins
Wouldn't be happy with Murphy, maybe Routledge + £8m ;-)) (You see Doug, this his how you negotiate!!!)
The Fear
Transfer Negotiations for Dummies ;)
GaztonVilla
I said it before... £5 million, Andy Reid and Wayne Routledge, and you've got a deal Mr. Levy.
GaztonVilla
Maybe Danny Mills will keep you up lmao!
mooney
You Villa fans must have it bad if you think Barry is worth 10million! He's a decent player but he wouldn't stand out in a half decent team. I'm not really sure if he would add that much to the Spurs side other than giving us some balance. He is a Yid thou!
no1spur
Not saying he's "worth" 10million, but value is relative... He is a vital cog in our team and losing him would cost us in terms of his play, his influence and his future captaincy material.
GaztonVilla
10 mill, ha ha ha ha!!!! somewhere between 3-5 mill is about right. considering we could get bridge for 5 mill, and taylor for less than that doesn't leave villa in a great position if you have to sell to buy
epochery
son_of_cher.....your knowledge of european football must be immense, our "lazy russian" is actually bulgarian!!!
no1spur
Under normal circumstances I'd laugh off a nonsense bid like this but with recent goings on I'm not so confident :(
ooahPaulMcGrath
£3.5m and Danny Murphy would be a fair deal. Murphy would bring quality into midfield in terms of passing and finall ball a great goal threat from set pieces too..!
deemz
deal! but seriously I'd rather you kept Barry and took Murphy off our hands for £1m
sirhc
1 million for Murphy.. Add Mills for 1 million.. This management stuff is easy I tells ya :P
GaztonVilla
£7m minimum. This is all paper talk anyway, and they havent got a clue. The star has said man city have offered £2m for Mario Melciot... strange since he left the blues a month ago!!!!
groseyboy
haha sorry no1spur mate russian/bulgarian same sort of thing (kind of!) cant keep track of all the foreigners nowadays.
Reid and Routledge + 2mill for barry would be a decent swap, id settle for that. Spurs have loads of midfielders anyway you can loan us a couple
son_of_cher
Of course the author must think all newspaper gossip is true and not in any way made up to increase sales.
sameoldspurs
Tell you what why don't you have routledge and Murphy, or how about a Centre half could we tempt you with Gardener instead of Routledge.and call it a deal, would be sad to see routledge go as he will be good cover for Lennon, I've always been a fan of Murphy, but he's going to struggle to oust Jenas and Carrick, and we have back ups in Tanio, and the excellent young Huddlestone. Barry is a player I've always liked and thought should of had more England opportunities.
ajm142003
£7m! pfffffffffffffffffffff
Wake up guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You might as well sell him to us now, he's not going to want to play in the championship next season.
thetford_spur
All you Villa fans are idiots. Firstly, £3.5m is more than enough for Barry, and secondly, we dont need a player like that. Spurs are in a different class to Aston Villa, u can keep ure *****ty players as u need all the 'good' players u have. I doubt any Spurs fans are gonna be crying if we dont get Barry. Mabye if he gets into the England squad in a few years, Spurs will have a think about him. This is nothing more than a stupid rumour........we dont need ure ***** players.
oligb
If he went for less than £6m I'd give up too because there's no way a club in our position could attract a player of sufficient quality to replace him. Now Baros on the other hand ........
BOF
Barry isn't worth 7 million pounds. Everton signed a powerfull exciting player for that much... these keywords "powerfull" "exciting" do not apply to Barry. Perhaps "Lazy" "Seen his best day" "unmotivated" would sum up Barry. For me £3.5 million is about right. You could rplace him with 2 or three better players from the lower leagues with that money.
Cpt. Mainwaring
Barry will be going, and it's not fair on you to try and keep such a promising player at Villa. He needs to be with a club who are going somewhere...!
NeilBaker
It's amazing how all these Spurs fans crawl out of the woodwork each time their team is mentioned on the Villa pages - I guess it just goes to show how insecure they are, that they feel the need to be so vitriolic (for you spurs fans - use a dictionary ;-p). I definately scense a huge chip on the proverbial shoulder here and I wonder if they are just scared that there newfound progress and optimism is only temporary. And to say that Villa fans are not realistic, please read all posts for the last season, you will all know that we are very realistic, just *****ed off with the current "leadership" at our club. (or maybe it's just that the Vital Spurs page is just sooooooooooo boring that they have to look for excitement elsewhare :-) - or could it be that they just like to kick a guy when he's down - did all Spurs fans, when growing up, like to pull the wings off flies and the legs off spiders ;-P)
Villain Of The North
While I have no time for Spurs, they are and have always been a bigger club than Villa, I'm afraid.
NeilBaker
I apologise for such 'acidic' and foul underserved language from my fellow Spurs fans. Please don't tar us all with the same brush.
sirhc
Murphy,Huddlestone and Porky Reid plus £1m cash that should do it.
fatloser
You all need to wake up if you think he is worth anything like £10 million. £5 million is more then fair after all what will he be worth when you go down next season. Dont get the hump with us cos your a bit sh*t and we want the only good player you have, its not are fult we are trying to move forward
ihatescum
Yes, 3.5 million would be an absolute joke offer, and is almost certainly just a figure pulled out of the air by the media, but all this talk of a serious Tottenham interest has to be unsettling for the player. If Spurs do come in with a serious bid though, I reckon he'll be off. Loyalty can only go so far, and GB must know as well as the next man that we're going nowhere while the current regime remains in place.
glensider
One good season rising out of mid table mediocrity, a good manager and progressive board investing in the future yes. Yes it is a far better place to be than us currently but it is the Uefa cup guys where Bolton, Middlesvilla, Newcastle etc have been. Spurs are not and will not be world beaters credit for progression and a decent season but you lot, as so many are are light years away. We have Ellis to blame...not a dodgy Lasagne !
fatloser
who would replace him?
south coast villain
Spurs can go a long way in the UEFA Cup - they have the squad and manager to do it. I can even see them winning, if they don't meet Gretna before the final!
NeilBaker
We finished just 2 points outside the top 4 (CL) and spent 6 months in the top 4 Without even beating one of the so called BIG 4. So its true were not there yet ! but to say we are light years away is just something you keep telling yourself so you feel better when you best player comes to us !!!
ihatescum
Isn't it amazing how 5 minutes of success breeds such arrogance! You are light years away because, as you so rightly said, you didn't beat one of the "Big Four" and until you can compete with them on an even keal (that means winning sometimes, not just playing for the draw) you can only concider yourselves the best of the rest, and this was only one season. Lets see what happens in the future before we talk about being "nearly there".
Villain Of The North
sorry villa but your team sucks. gazton villa? 10 million what for the whole of your team? no to expensive, unless you chuck in the dugout and cheerleaders to. villa you suck ha ha ha
mrcommonsence
Playing for draws,when?Your sounding like a bit of a green eyed monster to me. but hay like you say lets just see what the future for are clubs eh
ihatescum
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