Liverpool In For Barry? Forget It!

he would look rubbish in red anyway! :o)

GB is intregal to everything MON is looking to achieve. The team is built around him. IF, and it is a very big IF, we did sell him it would have to be for nearer £20m, BUT even with unlimited funds where would we find an adequate replacement? Under no circumstances should we sell, unless of course, the player WANTS to go. At present why would he? Champions League - Yes, BUT Liverpool are a club with serious internal problems at the moment. Villa are a very settled and happy club under the stewardship of Lerner and O'Neill. A club that is defeinitely on the up. GB is a legend here, plays every week and an England regular. Would that be the same at Anfield?

he wont go, give him 80k a week for the next 4 years, he deserves it. he will finish a proper legend for us.

The chances are that, if we continue the progess that we have made this year into next season, by virtue of some judicious transfer dealings, we will be replacing Liverpool in the top four. So why should GB go from a 'going up' team to a 'going down' team? With the right wages for GB Liverpool will be a no-no, anyway, after next season we will buy Gerrard.

The idiot who wrote this article is as bad as the idiot who started these rumours. Liverpool "on the way down" ? A team who have just beaten Inter Milan home and away, who have just dumped Arsenal out of the Champions League, who are in the semi finals of the champions league for the 3rd time in 4 years, who have the best recored of any team in Europe in the last 4 years. On the way down? Clueless. Yes Villa are on the way up but that isnt hard considering how crap they have been for the last 10 years.

trader, are you a liverpool fan by any chance?

I think trader was rederring to Obediah's comment. Liverpool are unfortunately a giant compared to us and 12million is the price of an above average midfielder yet to prove himself on the big stage. If we sold him that would surely mean Petrov and Reo Coker in the middle.

I am aware trader was referencing Obediah's comment, but he did it while criticising the article which makes no such claim. To anyone who is willing to let Gareth go for 12/15 million, I'd like some of what you're on please.

I love garteh barry i really do...but(that word again)...we NEED an attacking midfielder!!! If we get a bid for aroung 15 million i would accept it and use it in a position we need most(hence why big john comes short all the time). If we had 15 extra mill to spend and used it on van der vaart and milner it would be good buisness...Hmmm...did you all see barry giving the team talk before the bolton game...you didnt...o im sorry reo coker was doing it...so a real captain is already waiting!!!

Me also, although Milner would be a fine addition

im with glen. ive been seeing Barry playing for the first team for nearly a decade! and he needs european football+a few medals. if we do not qualify for europe this season, be prepared to see a new captain next season. maybe Coker? haha.

Have to agree with many, I can see GB moving on.....for all the promise, we cannot as a club give him what he can get at Liverpool (whether Benitez is there or not) As Chelski have been reportedly sniffing the ante and quality of those looking at him has been upped since Spurzz last summer. Loyalty is commendable and GB has given us that in spades, surely he could not be blamed for chasing glory, at whether we like it or not a bigger club than Villa.

good point danelmonks, heard a few saying we should sell him at the top of his value etc also.

SORRY FOR THE LONG RANT - ITS BEEN A WHILE SINCE THE LAST POST SO WANT TO GET THIS OFF MY CHEST!!! I think there is a real chance Barry and maybe even more players will have their heads turned. In my opinion the Big 4 and several European sides will of course be looking at Barry, Young, Agbonlahor, Carew, Laursen, Bouma etc. I know that the likes of Laursen and Carew have long contracts but what does that matter nowadays!! We have performed excellently this season and the Young Players PFA nominations and England squad selections for Young, Gabby and co are a nightmare in terms of upping their profile and attracting the big guns. Now half a dozen or so of our players would be BIG signings for Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. - not since Yorke and Bosnich have many of our players be seen in that light! The only way we can hold on to these guys is to finish 5th this year and get European football, increase the wage structure at the club in line with the top 4 and give the players higher salaries and most importantly get a few big-name signings in ourselves as soon as possible in the window - if MON waits until 31st Aug again Young, Gabby and Barry could have moved on!!! If we want to be a big club we need to think big. Think of Sir Alex last summer - Nani and Anderson were not drawn out affairs, either was Tevez other than the whole ownership issue, if Hargreaves hadnt been injured that would also have been wrapped up quickyly - we couldnt even wrap up the Reo-Coker signing properly despite being the only club with genuine interest as far as I know. Sir Alex KNEW who he wanted - and went and got them. Rest of squad were content!!! If rumours are to be believed our scouts are worldwide so get looking for players and get them in asap!! I hopw MON knows the GK and RB he wants next season and we get them signed by 1st Aug not 31st!!!

no apologies needed for long rants deano, long absenses from the site however are a different matter. HOW COULD YOU!??!? lol

If we could get Sidwell in I'm sure he and Barry would be awesome together and that is the type of partnership that might make him want to stay.

can we bring romario outta retirement? was still top scorer at the age of 42 ha ha

Barry is real class tarzan.....I couldn't agree more with Deano's post. Pivotal moment for our club this......we should not be seen as a club willing to sell our best players.

id only accept around 20 million for barry, 12 is just a plain joke.

If Barry wanted to leave fair enough but i certainly don't want to see him go, I'm quite surprised to see how many of my fellow villan's don't seem to mind the idea.

A lot is riding on our qualification for Europe, would Barry and others want to jump ship so quickly? I like to think not, but I am a glass half full type of guy, would Barry want to be just another midfield option at a club with leadership problems or stay and be the Captain of a team on the up, with a respected manager, the adulation of the faithful and the chance of becoming an all time great and record breaker at Aston Villa. yes I am biased, but maybe he is the type who likes to be the big fish in the small pond, or maybe he will give us another season and see how the land lies.