The board wants success? You must be joking. Bloody yanks wont even come out a cent. 40 mill for villa? they cant even come out with 18 for barry. gees. no club would ever pay 15 mill for crouch as well. so until liverpool drop their asking price, it would be nuts for any team to pay such an inflated price. ask those bloody wankers to return to their disney land and concentrate on their gay hockey and baseball.

Would be great, but we don't have the money. We'd be a lot better with Messi on the wing instead of Kuyt or Pennant, but that ain't going to happen either.

Okay where do I start. Firstly do you watch Villa week in week out? Probably not Rafa will have people who have watched Villa reguarly, I personally thought he was going to be the striker we bought last year however Rafa knows better than me. Secondly do you really think Torres and Villa played that well together (Forget the 4-1 Russia game, the defending was amateur), because I don't. Torres had good game when Villa was taken off gainst Russia and then in the final. Torres was better off playing on his own!. Which leads me to the next point Rafa wants to play 4-2-3-1 instead of 4-4-2 so where does Villa play? The central attacking midfield role was made for Gerrard so where on God's earth would he play? Finally even if all the above was true look at his price tag and then you know it won't happen. Hicks is running round scrapping money to give to ............. John McCain so we're fucked looking for that right wing arse to give us money, as for Gillett well god only knows but it's rummoured the DIC deal for his half is not dead. So in answer to your article grow up and think about what you write before you write it. After all you have just pulled the old player had a good tournament he's great trick. What about Phil Babb? El Hadij Diouf? or the Greek striker from 2004?

yoga - villa has been a world class striker for 3 years before this tournament - top scorer in spain etc. therefore any comparison with diouf et al would be incredibly naive don't you think?

I LIKED WATCHING TORRES+VILLA PLAYING WELL TOGETHER, BUT I WAS ALSO STARING AT ANOTHER SPANISH PLAYER CALLED....SILVA !!! THAT GUY IS AWESOME FOR OUR LEFT HAND MIDFIELD POSITION....

Why do we need a striker?? we scored more goals than any other club last year 119 in all. What we need is a creative midfielder who will turn our draws into wins. Get over this striker business and starting talking about things that matter

ok lets see. if raffa wants to play 4-4-2 then i agree he does need a world class striker up there with torres, and villa would be perfect. if he wants to play 4-2-3-1 then i think we should buy quarezma and silva!! all we need is villa quarezma and ilva and we are awsome. quarezma and silva can both play on any side o prefer quarezma left and silva right so they can cut in and shoot! forogt about buying barry and keane they are not where near as good as there price tag says if raffa blows 25-30m on barry and 20m on keane that right there shows the money we have, and it does not need to be wasted on those 2 players!! really need quezma and silva and depense on what formation we r playing but also villa!! we also need new wide backs, i would of loved to see alves or ramos on the right and abidal/evra on the left then we would be absolutley perfect. Raffa please dont waste our money on no bodies you know who we want you know who we need so get us the players and then we can finally win some silver wear again!! anyone agree?

You dont win games from your forwards, if you dont have a good midfield. We hav s.g, and mas, we need mome attacking flair in midfield. At times liverpool are very hard to watch. Bring in 2 high class midfielders, sign a huntelaar or villa, sell kuyt, and play babel as a forward. 4-3-3 with babel torres villa/keane barry mas gerrard, carra skrtyl agger degan