Liverpool FC Forum

Penguins wrote:

Greavesie wrote:

Ok, how many assists have Aqualiani got and how many have Adam got? Simple enough question just to show how ignorant you can be!

theres only one answer to that, Aqua has played a LOT more games than Adam.

Personally Adam wins everytime, he wanted to come here and it made it well known, Aqua didn't and has declared AC a big leap in his career.

I know which of the two I'd want at my club regardless of their abilities

That is a totally different ballgame.
If Aquilani doesn't want to be here then he can off.
I am talking about ability only.

He had 6 assists in 9 PL games for us. Adam won't be close to that.

a quick search on wiki reckons he made 18 league appearances? Surely they can't be that far off?

or are you saying he only made 9 starts?

Forgive that season is a blur, and rightly so

Roger Red Hat wrote:the bottom line is Aquaman does not want to play for Liverpool FC. therefore, Kenny will not play him. and that is the end of it.

No true mate. Kenny himself said that he trained brilliantly and had an excellent preseason. The problem Aquilani faced was that Kenny could not (didn't want to?) find a place for him in the team.

i was reading in the echo the other night that he`s as good as gone, apparently part of the loan agreement we signed with milan was that if aquilani made 25 appearances for them this season that would automatically trigger a £8M or £6M (i cant remember what the fee was now but it was something like that) transfer clause in his contract. apparently the way the contract worked was that if he appeared from the start of a game that counts as 1 appearance and a substitute appearence counted as a half, at the moment he stands at 23 and a half.
apparently even if we wanted him back there`s nothing we can do about it, if he starts 2 more games for milan before the end of the season he`s their player.

btw while i do think the club have f**ked up letting aquilani go and while i do think comoli has f**ked up with some of the players brought in i have to say i think he has done a decent job moving players on, apparently he has cut something like £35M off our wage bill.
here are some of the players he`s moved on - konchesky (sold), aquilani (loan / possibly sold), cole (loan), insua (sold), big soto (sold), babel (sold), ngog (sold), tom ince (sold), jovanovic (?), degen (?), poulson (sold), meireles (sold), el zhar (sold), irwin (released), bruna (released), saria (released), chamberlain (released), cooper (released), highdale (released), hansen (loan), darby (loan), gulacshi (loan)
obviously it`s not nice to see lads released by the club and hopefully they will find clubs to take them on but looking at it from a lfc business perspective the squad and wage bill did need trimming and to be fair to comoli it looks like he has been busy.

Mate, I heard from the italian press that Milan are hesistant about keeping Aquilani or not and holding out with his appearances, if this is true then there must be something wrong with the player that we don't know about. I mean Comolli/Kenny saw something that they didn't like hence he moved to Italy.

If Milan don't buy him then I'm sure he will be off somewhere else.

metalhead » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:36 pm wrote:Mate, I heard from the italian press that Milan are hesistant about keeping Aquilani or not and holding out with his appearances, if this is true then there must be something wrong with the player that we don't know about. I mean Comolli/Kenny saw something that they didn't like hence he moved to Italy.

If Milan don't buy him then I'm sure he will be off somewhere else.

cheers mate i didnt know that, i hope he comes back next season.

I know he is a good player and all, but I really don't see a future for him with us, I think we should just sell him and get someone in the same mould as him but a bit more stronger and more determined, ala Modric perhaps

metalhead » Thu Mar 29, 2012 4:10 pm wrote:I know he is a good player and all, but I really don't see a future for him with us, I think we should just sell him and get someone in the same mould as him but a bit more stronger and more determined, ala Modric perhaps

yeah, maybe your right mate. certainly the way aquilani was playing in pre season was impressive though, we could certainly do with someone like that in the side now, and a centre mid pairing of lucas and aquilani would be a good platform for next season.