KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Right or Wrong move for Liverpool "Barry to City"

as i said in another thread because of villa convincing him to stay last season he was left with a choice of staying with a team that spent more than anyone else and got nowhere, losing by far and away their best player and falling to pieces afterwards, with a manager who has lost the plot to the extent of spending the entire season playing a right back as a left back and a central midfielder as a right back!

villa are a poor side with crap support - i feel he had to leave and liverpool withdrew their interest when villa quoted 12mill ... arsenal were never interested and nor were the chavs or man ure so it was kinda city or stay - no way he was going to stay as he knows villa are going nowhere

i am sure the money helped but also that it was not his main motivation - the fact city seem to be on the up (though hard to tell with that lot!!) had to be a big influence as i know villa had told him they would better any contract offer he received when he asked to join us - i am pretty sure that was an open offer if he signed a new contract

Lets all remember the Lucas Neill saga. Everyone, without exception, ridiculed Neill because he joined West Ham in exactly the same way that Barry has just joined City. Everyone said that he is money grabbing and just wanted the money and that he only went there because he knew he wouldn't get a game at Liverpool. How is this any different to Lucas Neill.

I'm not defending Neill in any way cause if I was in his position I would have played for Liverpool for bread and dripping, but I just don't see how this is any different.

its very different - neill had liverpool as an option barry didnt - his options were villa or city - liverpool werent in for him this time around no matter what dunk thought

Good luck to him. I hope this means Alonso will stay. Very concerned about Liverpool activity this summer, still slow in the t'fer market as usual!!

Trep, Liverpool were definately an option. If he really wanted to come here he would have refured to sign with City. The club doesn't have all the control. Liverpool were there just not for the stupid 12 million that was paid.

sorry mate but you are wrong - o'neill was refusing point blank to do business with us coz he is a tit

We were interested. Surely Barry could have stalled the deal a bit, there's still all Summer to go!!! He should have been used to protracted transfer sagas! Haha

hardly fecked up - i think most of us agree that he is no loss ...... quite simply not good enough - certainly not good enough to replace xabi which is what would have happened if we had signed him last season

I'm not that upset that we missed out on him but I just hope that Rafa has something up his sleeve and brings in a big signing. This way he can say that he didn't sign him cause he was really wanting to sign ........... This way we wont look like idiots.

All can see that Lucas Neill is only up for the cash because he won't sign again at the Hammers....only been offered a year and wants longer and more cash. Barry has done the same thing as Neil IMO because if he wanted to come to us he would have drawn the process out longer. Of course we were in for him....And the reason we didn't get him last year is because Rafa had less control of who we signed and that's why we ended up with Keane!!!! I think it worked out ok for us considering the season Xabi had and Barry is certainly not as good as Xabi! Glad we didn't get him in the end and glad the Barry saga is over. Good luck to him playing in the prem and no European football!