It's confirmed on the official aston villa homepage (don't have the link atm, but i saw it). They said that in the next days (tomorrow?), Sidwell will have his medicals and sign the contract. But it's pretty much official with sidwell.
Question is; do they need to sell barry for this deal? Don't know too much about villa's financial situation, but everything points to a barry to liverpool transfer in the next days.
Agreed; let's not sell tiago. He's way under his market value right now, and i doubt we could possibly sell him for a reasonable price (reports say wolfsburg from germany are after him - that's a mid-table team and i doubt they can pull out 10 millions). We'd have the following midfield;
Nedved (Gio) -- Alonso (Tiago) -- Camo (Marchisio)
Sissoko (Zanetti)
that's CL-material if you ask me...