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DeNeo

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Coverage starts at half 8.

And Nemeth is in the squad :) (As well as that Keane fellow.)

Hungarian hot-shot Krisztian Nemeth is in line to make his long awaited first team debut in tonight's friendly against Villarreal.

The 19-year old striker has been drafted into manager Rafael Benitez's plans for the game, while new signings Robbie Keane and David Ngog could also be given their first action in a red shirt.

Nemeth was the star performer of the reserve team's triple trophy haul last season and Benitez feels the time is right for him to make the step up to first team football.

"Krisztian is a player who has a lot of potential and I feel the time is right to include him in the first team squad for the game against Villarreal," said Benitez,

"He played very well for the reserves last season and scored quite a lot of goals. It is clear that he has the ability to score but he also has good game intelligence.

"We have high hopes for him but he must continue to work hard every day because that is the only way to improve.

"The good thing is Krisztian likes to learn and work with the coaching staff and this will only help him."

Nemeth will be joined in tonight's squad by reserve team-mates Stephen Darby, Jay Spearing, Daniel Pacheco, Emiliano Insua and Damien Plessis with Benitez again expected to give his younger players a chance to impress.

"The young players are doing a very good job and the work that they have been doing is already bearing fruit," he said.

"We have good quality in the reserve team and we can see these players being in the first team in the future.

"We have done this without spending big money on them, the cost to the club has been minimum.

"It was important that we signed these players when we did because we needed to improve and it is clear that this has already happened because last season the reserve team won the league and the average age of the team was just 18.

"These players clearly have great potential and it would be very hard to find better young players than them without spending big money.

"Hopefully they will go on to fulfil their potential because this would save the club a lot of money.

"Every year the quality of the squad is improving and these players are an important part of that improvement."

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DeNeo

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SWEET. Are the Spanish guys back in the squad now? Could we see Keane and Torres?

Yes they are. Though they've not been training for long, so I don't expect them to play for too long.

I predict Keane and Nemeth to start, with Ngog and Torres in the 2nd half.

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The Daily Mail and Guardian websites are reporting we've agreed a fee with Villa for Barry - £17.5m plus Finnan :S

So we've gone from not valuing Barry anywhere near £18m, to paying over it (because surely Finnan is worth more than £0.5m?)

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Villa claim the Reds failed to meet a deadline to sign the midfielder, who stated he wanted to move to Anfield, and now any switch is off.

Well done Villa. Good luck next season!

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How do you feel about Liverpool management now ? Rafa need a telling off from his boss.

I am impressed with Villa sticking to their guns.

Villa themselves are worse. They completely f*****d Brighton over when they signed Barry in the first place. It was shameless.

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Villa themselves are worse. They completely f*****d Brighton over when they signed Barry in the first place. It was shameless.

Tell me about it! I hear people moaning about that all the time these days. They'd get a lot of money if Barry was sold though but now they're even more pissed off.

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Villa themselves are worse. They completely f*****d Brighton over when they signed Barry in the first place. It was shameless.

Villa don't care about other club, shocker :lol:

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the whole barry liverpool thing could come up again this time next season (unless villa were to win the UEFA cup, and with their small side I doubt they could hack it atm)

once barry came on for bouma on saturday to play in a european competition, would that rule him out of playing champions league football with liverpool if he were to make the switch?

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once barry came on for bouma on saturday to play in a european competition, would that rule him out of playing champions league football with liverpool if he were to make the switch?

Nope - a new rule this season means if a player plays in one European competition, they won't be cup-tied in another, if they're transferred.

So Barry could play in the UEFA Cup with Villa, but still be able to play in the Champions League with a different team.

I really hope Blackburn etc weren't watching the match tonight - Pennant and Voronin were shocking. Pennant was the only winger we had playing - and he still couldn't cross the ball. We really need someone who can do that, and soon.

On a positive note, the new goalie played really well, as did Keane. All the youngsters acquitted themselves well too - fantastic block by Darby.

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How do you feel about Liverpool management now ? Rafa need a telling off from his boss.

I am impressed with Villa sticking to their guns.

O'Neill decided to conduct most of this whole charade in public. I'm not sure Benitez is the one that needs to be spoken to.

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How do you feel about Liverpool management now ? Rafa need a telling off from his boss.

I am impressed with Villa sticking to their guns.

I feel absolutely fine with Liverpool's management team over the Barry fiasco. The fiasco was all Villa's doing asking for ridiculous amounts of cash and Martin O'Neill being a prize bellend.

I'm ecstatic that Villa stuck to their guns, and will now probably see Barry go to Arsenal for £12m in January :lol:

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And we are off and running again -

Gareth Barry's transfer to Liverpool finally looks like going through after the Anfield club came up with the money to secure his move from Aston Villa.

The longest-running saga of the summer has reached a confusing climax after an earlier statement that he was staying at Villa Park.

Sportsmail understands that the mix-up was due to a deadline being missed by 20 minutes, and the transfer will finally be concluded on Thursday.

Villa will receive a £17.5million fee plus right back Steve Finnan in exchange for a midfielder who will fulfil his wish to play in the Champions League this season after all.

To find the money, Liverpool needed to provide the bank with a guarantee that funds to cover the move will be raised during the remainder of the close season.

The transfer has dragged on since May when Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez made it clear that Barry was his top priority.

Villa manager Martin O'Neill was angry with him for making details of his interest public, and a war of words raged between them for much of the early summer.

Liverpool made four separate bids to sign Barry but none of them matched O'Neill's valuation of the player.

Barry's outburst against O'Neill in a Sunday newspaper then appeared to signal the end of any chance of him remaining at Villa.

He accused the manager of finding time to be a pundit at Euro 2008 but not to speak to him about his future and was disciplined and told to stay away from the club's training ground.

Then Barry was booed by Villa fans at a pre-season friendly at Walsall last week, but that mood had mellowed when he appeared as a substitute in Saturday's InterToto Cup tie with Odense.

Matters finally reached a head on Monday when O'Neill tried to force the Merseysiders into a corner by setting a deadline. That was passed at 5pm on Wednesday when Villa had still not received confirmation from Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry that funds were in place.

Villa then put out a statement on their website confirming that Barry would be staying. It read: 'This evening, Aston Villa can announce that Gareth Barry will be staying with the club following the interest from Liverpool over recent months.

'During discussions in the past few days, a final deadline to conclude this episode was set that all parties were aware of and agreed to. This deadline has now passed and so Gareth will remain with Villa.'

However, it soon transpired that the two clubs were still talking over the move. Barry had been due to play in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Notts County on Thursday - but his name was subsequently withdrawn.

And it also appears that the England midfielder has already committed himself to renting a house in Cheshire.

The transfer has dragged on but now Benitez has to act quickly by offloading players to keep Liverpool's part of the bargain with financiers.

Those destined for the exit door include Andriy Voronin, Alvaro Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso and Jermaine Pennant.

Following David Bentley's defection to Spurs, Pennant will probably be the first to leave as Blackburn manager Paul Ince spends some of the transfer money he has received.

Robbie Keane kicked off his Liverpool career against Villarreal in Spain, two days after completing his £19m move from Tottenham. The Republic of Ireland captain started up front alongside 19-year-old David Ngog, who cost £1.5m from Paris Saint-Germain.

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Fucks sake. I was hoping he'd stay at Villa! :lol:

This.

£17.5m plus Finnan :o That's ridiculous, I like Barry but not at £20m, after Villa's comments yesterday it can't be back on again surely? If it is it'll just make Villa look like complete amateurs and us look like mugs.

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I thought Carrick was a waste of cash, but he is younger - and many a Man U fan tells of how he helped them win the title 2 years back.

So around £40m for 2 players now - Torres last year...surely we have to compete now.

The lack of wingers could still be problematic, any word there?

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The lack of wingers could still be problematic, any word there?

We're not going to play with wingers, obviously. Torres in the middle and two attacking widemen, Keane/Ngog/Babel/Kuyt etc

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