you know what when i did that team a totally forgot about tevez lol been told that he will be signing the contract on monday another good signing happy with how the team is looking now a couple ov defenders and we will be very hard to beat this year. The only place i can see Villa going is Barca tbh that will spell the end for eto i think

Tevez has to wait until July 1 until he can sign for any other club.

True tha true tha will be a pre contract agreement then he has already commited just has to wait it out now

Two words
Rick Parry.

Thats who was making the transfers at Liverpool not Rafa

I think that's BS to be honest, sure Parry does the negotiations, but I think it was a decision by the board. Rick Parry didn't just decide who we did and didn't sign, did he do all the scouting for our players? Did Parry sign Alonso, Masch, Skrtel, Agger and Torres?

I think what was happening was Rafa would identify a player, then the board would decide on if we signed him, even if we had the money. At other clubs, if the money is there the manager is allowed to spend it freely.

There's not a chance Rick Parry would have been allowed to just spend £19m of the club's money for the crack of it, there's just no way that would happen. Rafa had even said at the time we were interested. The whole Rick Parry problem covers a lot of things, not just his inability to tie up our transfer targets quickly, things like lack of communication between him and the manager, and him and the owners. Other things like the commercial side of our club has been a shambles, something Parry was apparently brought in to change.

I believe Keane was a Rafa signing, but he didn't fit in and Rafa thought it was best to get rid, futhermore, I think Rafa wanted Barry and I've read in a few places (can't remember where) that he was told he could have both, only for the people above him to decide he can't have Barry, so he was stuck with Keane and he was unhappy. Also, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Parry/whoever came close to selling Alonso for like £13m, but for Rafa to step in and say he wanted something around the £18m mark.

Brazil vs South Africa 2nd semi Conf Cup 19.30.

agree about johnson and sturridge not to bothered. But id be very dissapointed if Richards goes hes still young played out of position and wasnt fit most of the year this is hes make or break year for me

I know I said this over two weeks ago, but I hope this finally stops the Liverpool fans claiming it's just a matter of time till they get Villa

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Brazil scrape through 1 - 0 with a late winner.

Cracking free kick from Alves, but that pitch was a disgrace.

I bet that was a thriller