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by **7_Kewell** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:42 pm

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Like everyone else is saying, I would pull out now.

People compare it to the Maschereno transfer, who is better and younger than Barry, others compare it to the Carrick transfer , but he was 24 when he went to United and it was 14m rising to 18m.

£18m for a 27 year old Barry is not good business.

it would leave MON right in the sh*t! Barry will be unhappy and he'll be forced to sell him at a cut price, because everyone will know he'll be desperate to sell.

by **Alonso14** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:50 pm

At the end of the day Utd might have paid over the odds for Carrick, but he was there only signing that season and they won the Prem the next season. I'm sure the winnings covered the costs of Carrick.

If Barry can come in and do the same job, by all means pay over the top, I'm just not convinced he can and I'm sure there are better players for us to be chasing who can get us alot closer to the title.

(they have also now signed Sidwell, so they are resigned to selling Barry.)

by **Toffeehater** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:57 pm

Alonso14 wrote:At the end of the day Utd might have paid over the odds for Carrick, but he was there only signing that season and they won the Prem the next season. I'm sure the winnings covered the costs of Carrick.

If Barry can come in and do the same job, by all means pay over the top, I'm just not convinced he can and I'm sure there are better players for us to be chasing who can get us alot closer to the title.

(they have also now signed Sidwell, so they are resigned to selling Barry.)

, totally agree with this

by **lakes10** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:57 pm

Reg wrote:
lakes10 wrote:Pass the Vaseline

17 million plus Hicks and Gillett is ok.

deal lol

by **Toffeehater** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:00 pm

i think finna should be valued in the more reasonable range of 2 to 3 million , taking in his age as a factor so it should roughly be lets say 15 million for barry and finnan souns fair with the deal at 18 million .

If finnan does go , we've only got arbeloa and degen and carragher as cover for right back and if the papers are claiming that we've got a 8 million offer for arbeloa we should take it and sign rafinha , who surely is better than arbeloa .

by **JoeTerp** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:07 pm

Rafinha just signed a long extention, might be difficult to pry him away.

by **redmikey** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:14 pm

oneil has been drinkin to much pochine for his own good, i agree with alot of posters that stay tell average villa to feck right off.

and any way they picked the wrong manager to be inflating the price, GH was your man martin you plick

also our leauge is on the point of being ridiculed by every one in europe if we are buying anyone at inflated price and players from our league like fatty frank are being tempted with a 7.95 mill offfer when barry is in the 20 mill bracket , complete ballacks imho the reason why more and more people feel very distant from there clubs at the moment

by **The Manhattan Project** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:33 pm

That's the funniest thing.

Inter bid 9M for Lampard.

We are asked for 17M plus Stevie F for Barry.

by **PabloAimar** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:50 pm

can somebody please explain this to me...

"I think he must have forgotten that Barry is playing more regularly for England than that player and yet he can come up and talk about a £10m offer which includes some money and some unnamed players which would make Gareth worth about £2m." - Martin O'Neill (Friday, 9 May 2008)

i've been racking my brain for 2 months now and still dont understand the logic in this quote... How would an offer of £10M including some money and some players make garry barry worth £2M??

NB. if marty actually meant £2m (2 milli-pounds) instead of £2M (2 million-pounds) thats even more absurb. the pound sterling is not divisible by more than 100, let alone 1,000,000

(a) if the offer was £10M cash PLUS player/s, that'd make garry b 'worth' £10M + the value of the player/s offered... ie. MORE than £10M

(b) if the offer was worth £10M including player/s, that'd make garry b 'worth' £10M... ie. exactly £10M, ie. £8M MORE than £2M

HELP - am i missing something or is marty o n a d!ck?

the only explanation i can think of is this...

coco had a few, got on the phone and proposed
we give them scott carson and a can of coco's enviro-friendly jerry-curl mouse in exchange for...
garry barry AND £8M

by **Dundalk** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:56 pm

Talk about a drawn out saga.

Barry really has to win over the Liverpool fans now as this has gone on for to long and it looks like he is going to replace fan favorite Alonso.

I REALLY hope he lives up to the billing.

by **Bad Bob** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:21 pm

Dundalk wrote:Talk about a drawn out saga.

Barry really has to win over the Liverpool fans now as this has gone on for to long and it looks like he is going to replace fan favorite Alonso.

I REALLY hope he lives up to the billing.

Yes, there really might be a bit of a hill to climb for Barry once he eventually does sign, in terms of winning over some fans. A while back many people were saying--even those of us who really rate Alonso--that Barry's a good player, a good lad by all accounts and a solid addition to the team. As this saga has drawn on, I wonder how much of that sense--which is still all true BTW--will get clouded by the sense that we're paying over the odds for the lad? It's gotten rather acrimonious of late, with a lot of people spitting venom at O'Neill for some of his comments about Barry's valuation. I hope that when we do get him (it's a question of when not if for me) we can look past all this and remember what had us interested in the transfer in the first place. It'll be sad if Barry never gets a fair shake from supporters who can't get over how much we'll ultimately end up paying for the fella.

by **Lando_Griffin** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:23 pm

F*ck these w*nkers off.

Cheeky, bullsh*tting c*nts.

by **Dundalk** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:27 pm

i just think he will have a lot to live up too and if it dosent go well in the first 10 games or so people may start getting on his back. When Crouch came here first he was given a lot of time to settle in and get use to his surroundings, I don't think Barry will be afforded the same luxury

by **7_Kewell** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:45 pm

Dundalk wrote:i just think he will have a lot to live up too and if it dosent go well in the first 10 games or so people may start getting on his back.

it won't necessary be the fans, but the press will.

by **The Manhattan Project** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:51 pm

"Gareth Barry" sounds like a superhero alias.

Like "Bruce Wayne" or "Peter Parker"

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