EPL Gossip for Friday July 4th
Liverpool will not pay the £18m Aston Villa want for Gareth Barry but will include add-on clauses to the £15m bid for the midfielder. (The Sun)
Something will get done at some point. At the end of the day both managers will agree to a deal that will let each save face.
Villa boss Martin O’Neill will use the Barry cash to help fund moves David Bentley, Steve Sidwell and Anton Ferdinand as well as a keeper. (Daily Star)
Villa will have to do a tough sell to convince Bentley to make the switch to a non Champions League Team. Sidwell wants Chelsea to pay him off before agreeing to a deal with Villa and Ferdinand has claim he is happy at Upton Park.
The Gunners are prepared to sell the Togo international and have targeted Blackburn’s Roque Santa Cruz as his replacement. (Guardian)
Part of me thinks Santa Cruz is a one year wonder but with the talent in Arsenal midfield and Santa Cruz eye for goal that a Santa Cruz-Arsenal partnership would work well.
Ronaldo has not helped his relationship with the Red Devils by telling Portugal to appoint United assistant Carlos Queiroz as their national team boss. (Daily Mail)
What does United expect? Ronaldo plays for United but he is as committed to them as Alex Rodriguez was to his marriage. Ronaldo will always be Portuguese hence will always put the needs of his national team first.
Tottenham have had a £10m bid for Spartak Moscow striker Roman Pavlyuchenko rejected by the Russian side. (Daily Mirror)
Pavlyuchenko had a good Euro 2008 but in my mind he missed his fair share of Mario Gomez like chances in front of goal.