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by **Sir Roger** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:42 pm

bunglemark2 wrote:There's no excuse for cr@p first touches, putting the ball straight out into touch when trying to pass back to the guy who threw it to you; or 40 yard passes into nowhere, to no-one...

Sorry
Are you talking about Kuyt? Or Lucas?
I reckon Aquilanis got two seasons or 120 odd games to be as bad as those two.
Is there any excuse for Gerrards fu'ck ups? His awful excruciating useless corners?
Get off the lads back. At least he is looking for the forward pass. Unfortunately there isnt often someone to pass to. Yes he fu'cked up some passes. So what? Who didnt? He made the goal for Kuyt though didnt he?
Hes already proving his worth and if he gets more chances to play he will easily show he is worth 20 million

by **metalhead** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:57 pm

Didn't think he had a good game, I thought lucas did better when he came on and we looked better in possesion. I do think it is down to self confidence, we might see a better and improved aquilani next season if he gets his confidence, but he isn't a 20m player.

by **Sir Roger** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:37 pm

metalhead wrote:Didn't think he had a good game, I thought lucas did better when he came on and we looked better in possesion. I do think it is down to self confidence, we might see a better and improved aquilani next season if he gets his confidence, but he isn't a 20m player.

Are you saying that Rafa is an idiot who pays too much for average players?

by **Ben Patrick** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:44 pm

His attempts at long passes where poor but he was trying to mix it up a bit and create something.
I am a little more encouraged by him with each game.
He is putting himself about a bit more and is trying to assert himself on games more.
The range of his passing is something that should improve with more games i think.

by **Redman in wales** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:46 pm

thing is yesterday, it wasn't just his long passing... some of his simple, short passes were going astray. It was simply a bad game all round for aquilani yesterday.

by **Bad Bob** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:52 pm

I said in the match thread that John Craig made a great point a few weeks back: Aquilani needs to cut out some of the attempted 1-touch passes and just get his foot on the ball sometimes. Too many times you see him looking to redirect a pass to a teammate only for it to stray off target and kill a promising move. I'd rather see him control the ball and get his head up to assess the options before distributing. He doesn't need to linger on the ball or anything, just take a touch to assess the situation.

by **Dundalk** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:54 pm

Cant really comment as I only seen MOTD last night but was he really that poor?

He will need to start finding a bit of form soon but he will have to do it at home as he is not allowed to play away!!

by **JC_81** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:59 pm

Bad Bob wrote:I said in the match thread that John Craig made a great point a few weeks back: Aquilani needs to cut out some of the attempted 1-touch passes and just get his foot on the ball sometimes. Too many times you see him looking to redirect a pass to a teammate only for it to stray off target and kill a promising move. I'd rather see him control the ball and get his head up to assess the options before distributing. He doesn't need to linger on the ball or anything, just take a touch to assess the situation.

I wonder how much of Aquilani's eagerness not to hold on to the ball is to avoid physical contact, after all he is coming back from quite a bad injury and into a more physical, faster league. The ball seems to be like a hot potato for Aquilani since signing for Liverpool, he just wants rid of it as quick as possible. Injury playing on his mind perhaps?

Either that or he is just too eager to impress after so long out by trying fancy flicks and 50 yard passes.

I still think he could turn out to be a good signing. You can tell by his first touch, the positions he takes up and his appreciation of what's going on around him on the pitch that there is a good player in there somewhere. It'll be next season before we se it perhaps.

by **Ben Patrick** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:00 pm

Bad Bob wrote:I said in the match thread that John Craig made a great point a few weeks back: Aquilani needs to cut out some of the attempted 1-touch passes and just get his foot on the ball sometimes. Too many times you see him looking to redirect a pass to a teammate only for it to stray off target and kill a promising move. I'd rather see him control the ball and get his head up to assess the options before distributing. He doesn't need to linger on the ball or anything, just take a touch to assess the situation.

I have said this from the start about him, he lays it off first time almost every time and i think its to do with confidence and the fact that he is worried about not having much time on the ball.
Not sure why but i still have been a bit more encouraged by him the last few games.

by **Redman in wales** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:04 pm

well i thought the whole team was poor in the first half, despite the goal. But he was at fault for giving the ball away more then most. A couple of simple passes misplaced, a couple of misunderstandings, and a couple of long balls which didn't quite come off.

The "keane-gate" senario was mentioned a couple of pages back. What every footballer needs is a run of games to build up rythmn and consistancy. He hasn't been able to do that yet, as noone wants to rush him back too fast. At the moment its game in, game out, game in, game out, 65 minutes here, 10 minutes there etc.

We wont honestly know what we've got here until he can play at least 3 games of 90 minutes in a row. Only then can we judge.

by **Sir Roger** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:12 pm

He is making mistakes and misplacing passes. I dont care that he has assisted Kuyt twice in the last two games he played in.
He is obviously not worth 20 million because 20 million pound players never ever ever make mistakes or misplace passes.
Sell him and keep Lucas

by **Ben Patrick** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:21 pm

Sir Roger wrote:He is making mistakes and misplacing passes. I dont care that he has assisted Kuyt twice in the last two games he played in.
He is obviously not worth 20 million because 20 million pound players never ever ever make mistakes or misplace passes.
Sell him and keep Lucas

sometimes you post utter rubbish.

EVERY player misplaces passes.

by **Fauxy** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:24 pm

Sir Roger wrote:He is making mistakes and misplacing passes. I dont care that he has assisted Kuyt twice in the last two games he played in.
He is obviously not worth 20 million because 20 million pound players never ever ever make mistakes or misplace passes.
Sell him and keep Lucas

What a stupid post.. Alonso is now a 30 Million player and arguably one of the best at passing in football yet i have seen him screwing up passes for Real Madrid this season, even the simple ones.

Gerrard is the same, must be worth between 30-40 Million yet for the whole season he has been giving away the ball.

Kaka, Ronaldo, Robinho, Rooney have all missed sitters this season and they are worth far more than Aquilani.

To say that a 20 Million pound player who is adjusting to a new style of play, recovering from a long term injury should never ever ever misplace a pass is nonsense.

by **Sir Roger** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:24 pm

Ben Patrick wrote:
Sir Roger wrote:He is making mistakes and misplacing passes. I dont care that he has assisted Kuyt twice in the last two games he played in.
He is obviously not worth 20 million because 20 million pound players never ever ever make mistakes or misplace passes.
Sell him and keep Lucas

sometimes you post utter rubbish.

EVERY player misplaces passes.

Indeed they do
I was being sarcastic
:rasp

by **Sir Roger** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:26 pm

Fauxy wrote:
Sir Roger wrote:He is making mistakes and misplacing passes. I dont care that he has assisted Kuyt twice in the last two games he played in.
He is obviously not worth 20 million because 20 million pound players never ever ever make mistakes or misplace passes.
Sell him and keep Lucas

What a stupid post.. Alonso is now a 30 Million player and arguably one of the best at passing in football yet i have seen him screwing up passes for Real Madrid this season, even the simple ones.

Gerrard is the same, must be worth between 30-40 Million yet for the whole season he has been giving away the ball.

Kaka, Ronaldo, Robinho, Rooney have all missed sitters this season and they are worth far more than Aquilani.

To say that a 20 Million pound player who is adjusting to a new style of play, recovering from a long term injury should never ever ever misplace a pass is nonsense.

I agree it is a stupid post.
But I have seen similar sh'ite posted on here by people who actually really mean it
:nod

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