ALBION face a four month wait for the next installment from Gareth Barry's controversial transfer to Aston Villa.

The Seagulls are due to receive another £200,000 once Barry has played 40 first team matches for the Midlands giants.

The teenage defender has made 38 appearances so far as the season draws to a close.

Villa have only two matches left, at home to relegation-threatened Charlton on Saturday and at title chasers Arsenal on Sunday week.

Albion are not expecting Barry, an unused substitute at Manchester United last Saturday, to be involved in both games following the long-running row with Villa over his move.

An independent tribunal ordered Villa to cough up a potential £1 million plus for the 18-year-old former Seagulls' schoolboy player from Hastings.

Angered by the verdict, they honoured a £150,000 downpayment but then refused to pay a £200,000 installment due when Barry made his 20th appearance last December.

John Gregory, the former Albion midfielder and Villa manager, claimed Seagulls' chairman Dick Knight "wouldn't recognise Gareth if he stood on Brighton beach in an Albion shirt with a ball tucked under his arm and a seagull on his head."

The Premier League intervened in January, diverting £200,000 of Villa's TV cash to Albion and imposing a suspended £16,000 fine for their failure to pay up.

Albion are due a further £250,000 when Barry has played 60 games, £25,000 if he wins an England under 21 cap and £200,000 for a full England cap.

They will also collect 15 per cent of any transfer deal from Villa involving Barry, excluding the amount the Seagulls have already received for him at that time.

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