As much as i personally rate Milner, i do understand why Liverpool fans might question why the club is interested in him. He is English and therefore his price tag will (hopefully) be high. It looks like Villa are taking you lot for mugs over the Barry deal so i don't see Liverpool being interested in another english player. I think you will end up going for someone like Silva instead.

I know its a disgrace just read its 15 million with a 2 million add on.....17 million is 7 million to much for a player like gareth barry , although i do like him and it will be nice to a have a natural left footer in the middle its far too much money......

Although the news regarding my favourite irish international is making me very excited , keane is very good player and crouch plus anywere between 5 mil and 8 mil would be great......

Come on robbie do the right thing

Robbie keane is a great player. He would do well for Liverpool but isn't torres better upfront on his own. I know keane can play just off Torres but it might not work.

yeh thats the main worry if he is played out of position but hey i can dream

If you don't get Keane, why don't you try to get Duff, lol.

Maybe three seasons ago yeh but he has a had a howler for you guys hopefully this season he will turn it around......

We don't want your rejects, keep Duff. We'll take Milner, Given (I wish) and/or Harper and thats about it.

It was worth a try. But keep away from our keepers

If we had Itandje i'd say swap + cash But we'd probably have to offer you guys Itandje + 90M for Harper alone

I'm still hoping that we won't sign Barry! Sure he is a good player but not when it means losing Alonso!

Heard that Spurs won't want Crouch so they want 20m pounds for Keane. Don't think we'll be able to fork out that much so that deal might be dead, unless we sell Alonso to get Keane or we can negotiate for a lower price.

Getting Keane would be a major boost for me. Always liked him as a player.

The Telegraph says they have now bid £15 million plus £2 million depending on his success at Liverpool , si potentially £17 million altogether .

This is the final offer Liverpool have said .

Martin O'Neill has denied receiving a new bid however. Gareth Barry has also been told not to turn up for training.

I seriously hope we can move along now and don't bid for him. I understand that there is some rule the Champions League registration must follow, which probably explains why we are bidding for players from within the Premiership. The rules are:

At least 4 players who are 'homegrown by club' (as defined as spending at least 3 seasons at the club before the age of 21). At least 8 players who are 'homegrown by country' (as defined as spending at least 3 seasons at any club in the country before the age of 21).

You could register 8 homegrown club players and you would pass both rules, and for each homegrown space you cannot fill you the max number of players you can register in your squad goes down by one.

We had exactly eight last season: Gerrard, Carragher, Crouch, Pennant, Finnan, Kewell, Martin and Darby. So if Crouch and Kewell leaves as expected we would be down by two. But 15m pounds for Gareth Barry is still over the top.

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Other news, Insua signs new three year deal. Hope to see more of him next season.

Supposedly offering Sebastian Leto (who has done nothing at all this season, due to injuries and some stories about passport issues) + cash to Espanyol for Alberto Riera.

make it 91M and you have a deal

That Riera deal sounds quite good. Leto hasn't done anything to show promise for the first team.

NOOOOO!!! Not Riera....I'm sorry but I'm just not covinced by him. I still think (maybe hope) that Riera is just a smoke screen for Silva but we'll have to see.

I hope that there is some truth in the Robbie Keane rumours as I feel we should have signed him when we were first linked 2 seasons ago. He works so hard for teh cause, weighs in with a decent amount of goals and could play off Torres brilliantly. Fingers crossed on this one.

Barry I feel we will sign but I think we'll pay over the odds for him which is very unfortunate when we could probably sign Xavi for less but hey ho that's the English transfer market for you.

But Degen, Dossena, Barry, Silva and Keane with a backup keeper seems like a realistic set of signings to me and would fill the positions we need. Obviously the sales of Crouch, Alonso and various other squad boys would have to be made before we could sign all of these but I think it is possible and that these signings would/could and should make us stronger.

Here's hoping!

Oh and PPPLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE somebody sign Andrei Voronin!!! No offence to the long haired lummox but for gods sake his attacking makes Titus Bramble seem like a competent defender!

C'mon, he's not that bad. He's good backup to have for our backup striker who's backup to the guy who's backup for Torres.

LOL!!! Your in danger of getting my back up!

Yeah every side needs its average players as cover, except perhaps Chelsea.

lol, oh i 100% agree. He tries i suppose but he is a player that must leave. It depresses me just seeing him on the bench, poor lad.