Two of the summer's most drawn out Transfer sagas appear to be nearing completion - God willing.

Liverpool have been told to show their cards with Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill telling Reds they have until the end of the transfer window to get a deal done with Barry.  And if anyone says that O'Neill is not one of the nicer guys in the game, they'll get an earful.  What other manager would sit down, set a deadline in agreement with his star player for a move, watch that deadline pass and then after meeting with the player again days later, tell him they will let him go if Liverpool meet the valuation by the end of August.  That's a classy guy.

Now if Liverpool have ANY class at all (and they're serious about Barry) they'll get this deal done ASAP and allow Villa the time to use the money to try to find a suitable replacement.  I tend to agree with what O'Neill has said in the past though - if Liverpool REALLY wanted Barry (and they had the cash) they'd have done the deal by now.  I guess we'll see where they're at in the coming week.

And if reports in Saturday's Telegraph are true, Cristiano Ronaldo is going to demand a move away from Manchester United as early as Tuesday.  The online report saying Ronaldo is due back that day and will meet with manager Sir Alex Ferguson and ask the club to sell him.

Other reports surfaced early Saturday where RM boss Bernd Schuster said the club were still working on a deal for the Portuguese winger.  United have apparently softened their view towards a sale and if Madrid cough up the 136m US being asked, the deal will get done.

It could finally be the move that sparks a bit of a domino effect.  The sale of Ronaldo would allow Real Madrid to send Robinho to Chelsea for 60m US - the deal already agreed to.  United would then use their cash to try and grab Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham.  Those two teams also involved in an open dialogue with both trying to find a middle price between the 48m US United are offering and the 60m US Tottenham are asking.

It'd just be nice to have BOTH sagas come to an end so we could truly get on with things!

Agreed?