O'Neill's Barry buy-out talk

Aston Villa, 18:03, November 14, 2008

Martin O'Neill says he and Randy Lerner are not losing sleep over the prospect of Gareth Barry buying himself out of Villa Park.

The Villa boss says the chairman would not be financially concerned by the possibility of his skipper invoking Fifa's Article 17 rule and buying out the final year of his contract in the summer.

He said: "If someone wants to use the Webster ruling, I don't think that the chairman here is overly concerned about losing the money if we had the services of a top quality player for this extra year."

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