While the so-called experts were left scratching their heads after Michael Owen was left out of Fabio Capello’s latest England squad, some of us were trying to work out how arguably the best winger in the Premier League had failed to make the cut. Especially after David Beckham was picked, despite unofficially retiring from club […]

It would be interesting to read Gareth Barry’s autobiography of 2008. The England midfielder had a strong finish to the season with Aston Villa, handed in a transfer request, got caught up in a massive tug-of-war between the Midlands club and Liverpool, got dropped from the first team, played in the reserves, came back into […]

Hip hip…hooray! We might not have had much sun this summer, but we’ve had a veritable plethora of speculation surrounding the future of a certain Aston Villa midfielder. To be fair, it’s not as though the fourth estate have been inventing stories (with the exception of one or two who write lies to sell newspapers), […]

While the Daily Mail shriek that ‘Barry’s bound for Arsenal’, the England international looks like he will only be heading there when Aston Villa play the Gunners in the league. Indeed, while thousands of column inches have been devoted to a potential transfer of Gareth Barry this summer, it all looks like being fish and […]

The words Liverpool and Gareth Barry have appeared together more often in newspaper columns this summer than most of us have had hot dinners. The midfielder has been apparently close to signing for the Anfield club on 1,478 occasions, only for [insert latest reason such as owners stalling over cash, Martin O’Neill demanding a tenner […]

Ex-Liverpool and Villa star Patrick Berger knows exactly why Gareth Barry would prefer to leap into the arms of Rafa B and elope to Anfield rather than stay at Villa Park.

The Guardian reports that Liverpool’s Spanish mastermind Rafa B is still yearning to put Gareth Barry in a Liverpool shirt.

Dear Rafa,
Are you losing the plot?

Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso, fed up with being surplus to requirements, has demanded Liverpool sell him.

Last night Aston Villa were in Iceland, playing FH Hafnarfjarða, the current Landsbankadeild leaders. They lined-up with a strong team, including, surprisingly, influential captain and Liverpool target Gareth Barry. In playing in the game, Barry may have manoeuvred his way out of an £18m move to Anfield.