O'Neill tells Reds to meet Barry asking price

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP) — Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill told Liverpool on Thursday to meet his club's asking price for want-away England midfielder Gareth Barry.

None of Reds boss Rafael Benitez's four separate bids for Barry have so far met their Premier League rivals' asking price of 18 million pounds (36 million dollars).

O'Neill, who has resigned himself to losing his club captain, fined Barry two weeks wages, some 80,000 pounds, on Wednesday after his skipper suggested the Villa boss was more interested in commentating on Euro 2008 for the BBC than talking to him about his future.

Former Northern Ireland midfielder O'Neill, who barred Barry from pre-season training, told Villa's official website, www.avfc.co.uk: "We are really disappointed that...

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