Villa are still in pursuit of Milan

Villa have stepped up their efforts to sign Milan.

Villa initially insisted they would not pay more than £6million for Baros while Liverpool refused to budge from an asking price of £7m.
But the midlands It is understood that Villa are prepared to compromise with Liverpool in attempting to thrash out a fee for the Czech international. club are now believed to be read to pay around £6.5m with manager David O'Leary desperate to supplement a three-man strike force of Kevin Phillips, Juan Pablo Angel and rookie Luke Moore.
Villa operations manager Steve Stride is expected to have further talks with Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry following his return from the Champions League clash in Sofia.
But sources close to Villa insist they have still to agree personal terms with Baros and that they have not been given official permission to speak to the player.

Hopefully this will be sorted out sooner rather than later as it has been another extremely irritating transfer saga and Mickey may return!