Villa face deadline for Charlie Adam
Friday 24th June 2011, 2:00PM BST.
New Villa manager Alex McLeish will have to move quickly if he is to derail Liverpool’s bid for Blackpool playmaker Charlie Adam.
The Merseysiders have been linked with the Scotland midfielder for six months and are expected to lodge a £10million offer for him over the weekend.
McLeish is an admirer of the 25-year-old and would love to add him to his midfield. Indeed, after the sale of Young, he has funds to spend and is eager to boost that area of the team following Nigel Reo-Coker’s release.
Liverpool’s director of football Damien Comolli is scheduled to hold talks with Karl Oyston and both parties are hopeful a deal can be struck in the next few days.
Manchester United and Tottenham are also monitoring the situation, but Spurs’ stance is complicated somewhat with Luka Modric’s position.
Chelsea are pondering a fresh £35million move for the playmaker and Adam – who came close to moving to Spurs in the January transfer window – would be seen as an ideal replacement.
United, though, are looking at Modric, Adam and Inter Milan’s Wesley Sneijder.
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One of the most overrated players in PL history!!
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Aston villa need him more than Liverpool! God dame i hate football now days everything is about money f annoying!
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Best of an awfull bunch at Blackpool! 10mil would be a ridiculous amout to spend on him!
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WT74
Obviously you would know regularly seeing the quality on display at the custard bowl.
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overrated?? ? i guess u dont know much about football
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I don’t believe we have the slightest chance of him coming here whatsoever. It’s all press nonsense as i don’t believe we will be spending hardly anything this year. Besides that who is going to come to a club who persistently sells any decent players it has?
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