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O'neil : 'No bid from liverpool for barry'
Topic Started: Jul 20 2009, 11:31 AM (315 Views)
Robertomancity
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Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill feels Liverpool missed out on Gareth Barry because they may have taken it for granted that the midfielder would move to Anfield.

Barry was a prime target for Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez 12 months ago, but the two clubs failed to agree a fee for the England international.

The Reds were expected to renew their interest in Barry this summer, only for the 28-year-old to seal a £12million switch to cash-rich Manchester City.

Benitez claimed money had motivated Barry's decision to join City, with O'Neill revealing that Liverpool did not make a fresh offer for the former Villa captain.

O'Neill was surprised the player chose to sign for City and has questioned why a transfer to Anfield never materialised.

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"Did Liverpool take it for granted that Gareth Barry would sign for them?" said O'Neill. "They may well have done. And they missed out on Barry for that reason? They may well have done.

"All I will say is that I said to Barry's agent for us not to have the same debacle as last year, that they were perfectly at liberty to speak, I assumed to the top four teams. Liverpool were aware of the price we were asking if that was the case.

"Liverpool did not contact us directly at all in this matter and never offered any money for him.

"So the impression I got was that eventually it was a straight choice.

"I am not protecting anyone here because it doesn't really matter. I said I was a bit surprised because Barry had mentioned playing in the Champions League as a reason for going, that's a person's prerogative, but Liverpool had not put a bid in."

He added: "There was an agent working, supposedly, on Liverpool's behalf, but there was no offer forthcoming. Barry left, so that was the point.

"Why Barry wanted to leave was up to him, where he went to was a bit of a surprise. But that was it."


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TheReturnOfTheKing
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put a bid in for his agent maybe...? same way united got berba last season...first they agreed with agent since another team agreed fee and if player wants to move then quickly meet the asking price?


spuds and pool put in a late bid for barry

but he went for the money
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Robertomancity
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taking him for granted....and you payed the price
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lol what the hell are you on about

end of the day, he said he would only leave villa for a cl club. then city came and offered him shed loads of green and he went to them
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barry can f**k off

even o neil admitted that barry had told him he wanted to play cl football and that he found it surprising that in the end he had joined city

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Just mentioned this in the other thread. Barry was suggesting that Liverpool had been interested in him and that discussed money so O'Neill is evidently not in possession of all the facts.
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who cares. it happened a month ago. how come no other transfer has had this many threads about it :unsure:
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because all the bin dippers where slating him for going to us instead of them.

and they never even put a bid in for him :lol:
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Jul 20 2009, 11:41 AM
because all the bin dippers where slating him for going to us instead of them.

and they never even put a bid in for him :lol:
barry suggested we did give a offer to him

spuds manager did

as did rafa which was why he was so annoyed with barry going for the money :lol:

come on have a bit more class city
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tebroc
Jul 20 2009, 11:37 AM
who cares. it happened a month ago. how come no other transfer has had this many threads about it :unsure:
Just wait until Liverpool and City are fighting it out for 4th place. :fishing:

So Liverpool never even reached an agreement with Villa...
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Maybe not an official bid with Villa but they obviously conveyed their interest to the player somehow and he stated that he chose City instead.
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Jul 20 2009, 11:43 AM
tebroc
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who cares. it happened a month ago. how come no other transfer has had this many threads about it :unsure:
Just wait until Liverpool and City are fighting it out for 4th place. :fishing:

So Liverpool never even reached an agreement with Villa...
did united have a agreement with spurs when they reached an agreement with berba and his agent?

no it was done after, they made a offer to berba then when they knew he would accept they offered money to spuds

liverpool and spuds did the same but he went for the money
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if the guy has chosen money over champions league football then we are better off out of it
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if the guy has chosen money over champions league football then we are better off out of it
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Jul 20 2009, 11:34 AM
put a bid in for his agent maybe...? same way united got berba last season...first they agreed with agent since another team agreed fee and if player wants to move then quickly meet the asking price?


spuds and pool put in a late bid for barry

but he went for the money
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