Carson Suffers from Barry's "Ambition"

The recent news of Scott Carson's impending departure to West Brom has done nothing but highlight the petty relationship between Liverpool and Aston Villa.

Scott Carson has been unfortunate to be caught up in this Gareth Barry feud, as he should definitely be heading to Villa Park for the start of the season. Carson spent all of last season with Villa, enjoying first team football, and succesfully making it into the England set-up (albeit making one of the worst performances in England history). Aston Villa wanted to make Carson's move permanent, but were met with a £10m transfer fee. Now, we hear that Scott Carson will be heading to West Brom for a fee of £3.25m.

This is for two reasons. Firstly, Liverpool are being petty. They feel that Aston Villa are over-valuing Barry, and so over-valued Carson to them as a childish reposte. Business, and football, can be like that. However secondly, Liverpool are now in need of money. With hopes of signing both Gareth Barry and Robbie Keane, Liverpool will be outlaying a reported £35m for the pair. That is money that the Liverpool board are unwilling to supply to Benitez, and so a number of their players could become available "on the cheap".

It's good to see a big club like Liverpool needing to sell to raise money, but I feel it would be even better to see Gareth Barry and Robbie Keane staying at their clubs where they both had great seasons as Captain.

And I hope for Scott Carson's sake that his move to West Brom does not send his career down the same path as Richard Wright's.