The chase for Aston Villa skipper Gareth Barry is heating up, with Arsenal and Liverpool going head-to-head for the midfielder, and both managers offering makeweights to sweeten the deal!

We here at COS (caughtoffside to the uninitiated) are looking to find the worst player in the Premier League. It’s easy to find the best players, but try to single out the lowest of the low - that one player who really just doesn’t belong and appears to be a member of your squad because […]

Someone might want to tell Rafael Benitez that just because Player A costs a certain sum of money, it doesn’t mean that you can justify selling Player B for the same amount, especially as people might want to question why you’re not keeping Player B in the first place.

It appears Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill has given up any hope of keeping his skipper and that should open the door for a long awaited Anfield move, however, does Rafa still have some cash left?

Wenger apparently wants to launch a last-ditch attempt to sign this Aston Villa midfielder after Liverpool’s interest was supposedly ended.

The most irritating and lengthy transfer saga of the summer continues to rumble on, despite Aston Villa’s declaration that Gareth Barry is staying put after Rafa B failed to come up with the readies before yesterday’s 5pm deadline…

Liverpool supporters can forget about their dream of watching Steven Gerrard and Gareth Barry linking up next season. After nearing the completion of a deal this evening that would have seen Liverpool pull off a shock move for Barry, Villa manager Martin O’Neill decided to put a halt to the final negotiations by telling Rafa […]

This Aston Villa man appeared to have been forgiven by the club’s loyal supporters, but now it appears Liverpool are keen to once again try and secure his signature on an Anfield contract.

The way that the Potters are carrying on, you might be forgiven for thinking they’re allowed to field two keepers between the sticks next season. Perhaps they’ll need to in order to stay up! Stoke missed out on Scott Carson, who instead chose to play for West Brom, although they now appear to be lining […]

Just when you thought that Peter Kenyon couldn’t get any more unpopular, here is something which will surely do anything but endear him to the vast majority of football supporters. As we all know, Chelsea’s recent successes have been due in no small part to the club being bankrolled by a rich Russian oligarch, who […]